200 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST; 



E. myrsinocarpa is a species collected by Fitzalan at Trinity-- 

 Bay, with shorter, less closely venulated, and more acuminate 

 leaves, very thin ultimate peduncles, less broad, indeed quite 

 globular, fruits. Leaves much like those of -S". a^^oc^opAy^^a. 



E. carissoides is now also known from Cape York and 

 Endeavour-River 



E. hemilampra occurs on Mossman's-River (Sayer), Endeavour- 

 River (Persieh), Mt. Bartle Frere (Johnson). 



E. cormiflora grows on Endeavour-, Daintree-, and Johnstone- 

 Rivers. The fruit is there much eaten by the autochthones. 



E. Tierneyana extends to Trinity-Bay (Sayer) and Daintree-River 

 (Fitzalan). 



Embelia Flueckigeri. 



Leaves on corrugated short petioles, of firm texture, almost 

 elliptic, at the base blunt, devoid of denticulation, closely 

 reticular-venulated, glabrescent ; panicles densely tomentellous ; 

 pedicels very short or some almost absent ; segments of the 

 calyx five, rather long, narrow-elliptic ; petals of about double 

 calyx-length, tender-membranous ; stamens five, about as long as 

 the petals, their filaments scantily beset with hairlets, the anthers 

 broadly cordate ; ovulary and lower portion of the style short- 

 lanuginous. 



Russell-River ; Stephen Johnson. 



Shrub of somewhat laurinaceous aspect, though of rambling 

 habit. Leaves to 4 inches long, to i;^ inch broad, shining on 

 both sides, hardly paler beneath, their pellucid pores not readily 

 visible. Branches of the panicle numerous, but m.ostly short. 

 Vestiture of the inflorescence brownish. Flowers in racemous 

 clusters. Bracts of rather conspicuous size. Petals about 

 i^ inch long, very perceptibly dotted, much less pubescent than 

 the calyx. Filaments linear-setaceous. Fruit yet to be obtained. 

 Allied to E. Nagushia, but the leaves are neither distinctly 

 acuminate, nor narrowed into the petiole ; further, the flowers 

 are larger and neither tetramerous nor glabrous. From E. 

 Cattam it differs already in larger, less pointed leaves, ampler 

 inflorescence and longer calyx. The species is very difl'erent 

 from our only other indigenous congener, namely E. Australiana, 

 Two older names exist for the genus Embelia, but neither 

 became supported or confirmed by any quoted or implied species- 

 names. Several of the Australian Myrsines are referable to 

 Labisia, on account of the valvular preflorescence of their 

 corolla. 



This plant, of a medicinal genus, is dedicated to Dr. Friederich 

 Fliickiger, the meritorious Professor of Pharmacology in the 

 University of Strassburg, at about the time of his septuagenarian's 

 jubilee as a public scientific festival. 



March, 1892. 



