198 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Ovulary two-celled, with rather numerous ovules. Fruit not 

 available in a ripe state. 



In form of flowers this plant comes very near E. lanceolata, 

 but not in their disposition, while the absence of petioles and 

 the shape of the leaves give our species already a totally different 

 outer appearance. 



The richness of the Bellenden-Ker's Ranges in peculiar plants 

 >vas foreseen by myself in 1855, on account of their isolated 

 high elevations ; and the correctness of this anticipation was 

 demonstrated by Mr. Sayer's mission, which — may it be said in 

 justice to him — drew first scientific attention to the exuberance 

 in the vegetable endemism there. But R. Brown must have 

 had already a presentiment of those plants-riches, when he 

 induced, in 1802, Captain Flinders to bestow on yonder 

 mountains the name of the subsequent elucidator of so many 

 Iridese. 



feuGENIA HEDRAIOPHYLLA. 



Glabrous ; branchlets very prominently quadrangular ; leaves 

 rather large, chartaceous, elliptic-Ian ceolar, gradually acuminated, 

 with rounded base almost sessile, their venulation faint, pinnate 

 and immersed, their punctation copious but very subtle ; flowers 

 small, in ample brachiate panicles ; peduncles from decurrent 

 prominences very quadrangular; flowers frequently ternate on 

 the ultimate peduncles ; pedicels extremely short or obliterated ; 

 calyx hemispheric-turbinate, slightly lobed or almost truncate ; 

 petals hardly expanding ; anthers very minute, about as long as 

 broad ; style capillary thin ; ovulary much sunk ; fruit quite 

 small, almost globular, one-seeded, terminated by a comparatively 

 broad limb of thin structure, and separated from it by some con- 

 striction ; pericarp very thin. 



Mossman's-River ; Sayer. Russell's-River ; Johnson. 



Among Australian congeners nearest to E. angophoroides, which 

 is now also known from Fitzroy-River and Trinity-Bay, but 

 specifically separable by larger, almost sessile leaves, not gradually 

 narrowed in to the base, with much thinner venulation ; further, by 

 the nearly membranously angular branches of the infloresence, 

 almost complete absence of pedicels, less denticulated calyces 

 broader at the base, and by the fruit, even in a ripe state, being 

 edged by a higher rim. Eugenia Ventenatii is still further 

 removed already by much larger fruits, although the leaf venula- 

 tion in that species is also very thin. Our new plant has the very 

 angular peduncles in common with E, lanceifolia, which species 

 moreover has very similar leaves, but its flowers are of larger 

 size, the calyx is semi-ovate and conspicuously lobed, and the 

 fruit is very much longer. Notable remains also some similarity 

 to E. cordifolia and E. Neesiana, but neither of these has the 



