THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 177 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 



OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS ; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 



( Contimied.) 



Phyllanthus hypospodius. 



Tall, throughout glabrous ; petioles quite short ; leaves very 

 large, almost distichous, chartaceous, ovate- or elliptic-Ian ceolar, 

 thinly venulated, on the surface dull-green, beneath whitish-grey; 

 staminate flowers minute, on very short pedicels, each cluster 

 accompanied by one or two pistillate flowers of larger size ; outer 

 sepals almost ovate, inner more orbicular and slightly longer ; 

 stamens six, their anthers roundish and nearly as long as their 

 filaments; style hardly any; stigmas three, channelled or flattened, 

 undivided, finally rigid ; fruit rather large, short-pedicellate, 

 trigonous-globular ; seeds oblique-nephroid, but also somewhat 

 triangular, smooth, outside whitish and faintly marked by a pale- 

 brownish lineolation. 



On the Russell-River; Stephen Johnson. 



Shrub, attaining a height of 14 feet. Leaves to 4 inches long 

 and 2 broad, flat, entire. Sepals pale-coloured. Anthers discon- 

 nected. Ripe fruit measuring ^ inch diametrically, and quite 

 as high as broad, many times longer than its sepals, brownish 

 outside. Seeds nearly yi inch long. 



The whiteness on the lower page of the leaves as well as their 

 form and size has our new species in common with the Sumatran 

 P. hypoleucus, of which however the carpologic characteristics 

 are very different. 



Wendlandia basistaminea. 



Branchlets appressedly almost sericiously pubescent ; leaves on 

 short petioles or almost sessile, chartaceous, mostly ovate-lanceolar, 

 short-acuminate, at the base rounded-blunt, above nearly glabrous, 

 beneath particularly along the costules and venules beset with very 

 short hairlets ; stipules almost deltoid, incised at the apex, soon 

 deciduous; panicles with cymous or fasciculate flowers, appressedly 

 short-pubescent ; lobes of the calyx deltoid-semilanceolar ; corolla- 

 tube about thrice as long as the calyx-lobes, sparingly puberulous 

 inside, slightly constricted at the upper end ; corolla-lobes nearly 

 glabrous, not much shorter than the tube ; stamens fixed close to 

 the base of the corolla and nearly as long as its tube, completely 

 enclosed, as well as the style glabrous ; dehiscence of fruit more 

 readily loculicidal than septicidal ; seeds minute, ovate, outside 

 brown and relicular-rough. 



On Russell's River; Stephen Johnson. 



Leaves simply opposite, to 5 inches long, to i^ inches broad, 

 flat, paler and often brownish beneath. Panicle terminal, inclusive 



