THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 197 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 



OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS ; 



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



( Contimied.) 



Eugenia minutuliflora. 



Glabrous ; branchlets almost cylindric ; leaves rather light green, 

 obovate or elliptic-cuneate, gradually narrowed into a short petiole, 

 without lustre on either page, slightly paler beneath, their venula- 

 tion pinnular, subtle, immersed, their punctation seldom anywhere 

 transparent ; panicles rather small, but trichotomously brachiate ; 

 flowers extremely small ; calyces attenuated into very short, often 

 ternate pedicels, smooth, the lobes of each minute ; petals about 

 half exserted, long continuing connivent or calyptrate ; stamens 

 extremely short, never very numerous, their anthers ovate-round- 

 ish, opening by longitudinal slits ; style hardly emerging : fruit 

 rather large, depressed-globular, its pericarp somewhat succulent, 

 whitish outside. 



Near Port Darwin ; M. Holtze. 



This species stands systematically very near E. Smithii in floral 

 and carpic characteristics, but the leaves are of quite different 

 shape and not shining nor dark-green above, while none of the 

 anthers are biglobular, and all open with lateral dehiscence. 

 E. Armstrongi, of which I have seen no authentic specimen, and 

 of which the fruits remain unknown, cannot be our present plant, 

 as Bentham kept it out of the section Syzygium, and indicates 

 the petals and stamens as of greater length. Eugenia Holtzei, 

 from material recently received, shows the following principal 

 carpic qualities : — Ripe fruit urceolate-globular, ^-inch to J^-inch 

 long, dark purplish outside, truncate at the summit, one-seeded. 



Eugenia apodophylla. 



Glabrous ; branchlets prominently quadrangular ; leaves rather 

 small, firmly chartaceous, long-acuminate, with rounded base 

 sessile, pinnately thin-venulated, their punctation much con- 

 cealed ; flowers small, from two to four together between terminal 

 leaves ; peduncles none ; calyx passing gradually into the twice 

 longer pedicel, almost truncate, punctular-scabrous ; petals at 

 first coalescent into an hemispheric lid, but some finally 

 expanding ; stamens much longer than the petals ; anthers 

 roundish when open; style elongated; ovulary sunk deeply; 

 fruit reddish. 



On high summits of the Bellenden-Ker's Ranges ; W. Sayer. 



Tree to 40 feet high, so far as known. Branchlets sometimes 

 upwards quite membranously margined. Leaves i inch to 2^^ 

 inches long. United pedicels and flower-buds club-shaped. 

 Petals measuring hardly ^ inch. Longest stamens fully ^ inch. 



