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the humid mild tropical air, formed not only entomological collections 
of great interest, but enriched also our knowledge of the vegetation 
there by bringing from thence many rare plants, one of which as new 
I beg to define diagnostically. 
Lepistemon Lucae. 
Branchlets and leafstalks beset with appressed hair; leaves 
hastate, gradually narrowed into an acute apex, the sinus narrow, 
the lobes ending into a rather acute sometimes excised angle ; both 
pages of the leaves beset with appressed hair, the lower more so than 
the upper ; cymes almost forming umbels ; stalklets during anthesis 
about as long as the stalks, shorter than the flowers, appressed-hairy; 
sepals ovate-orbicular, minute, many times shorter than the corolla ; 
the lobes of the latter extremely short; anthers hastate-oyate ; 
stigma didymous ; ovary and crenulated annular disk glabrous. 
Between Endeavour-river and Port Douglas. 
In its very small and blunt sepals this species approaches Z. 
urceolatus, but the form of the leaves is quite different ; the fruit 
also is likely to exhibit further distinctive characteristics, but remains 
asyet unknown. Thatof LZ. urceolatus, according to specimens from 
near Cooktown, collected by Mr. W. Persieh, forms a depressed- 
globular and somewhat quadrangular capsule, measuring 3 to nearly 
4 an inch in width; it is glabrous and shining, Linnea rather 
irregularly and slowly, and pon mine four seeds, which are about of 
an inch long and broad, imperfectly silky. Mr. Barnard found ‘the 
same species on I] Mossman’s River. 
Meniscium triphyllum. 
Swartz, syn. fil. 19 et 206. 
Daintree River. 
This fern, brought by Dr. Lucas, adds a new one to the Flora of 
Australia, in which indeed the genus was neither sons to be repre- 
sented before. In 1864 (fragm. phytogr. Austr. 1v, 166) I alluded 
already to some affinity of this fern to Rolinaiiium urophyllum 
through Meniscium cuspidatum ; the two latter seem however to be 
also quite distinct from each other. Dr. Lucas found JL. triphyllum 
growing along with P. wrophyilum. The secondary vein, which con- 
stitutes the boundary between the two rows of areoles, interjacent to 
the primary veins, may on the same pinna be perfect, or may be more 
or less broken up by not reaching the transverse veinlet of the next 
areole, in that case mostly ending in a club-shaped apex ; this 
interruption of the secondary veins occurs exceptionally in P. 
urophyllum also, while according to Blume’s illustration it seems of 
common occurrence in Mf. cuspidatum. 
The following are the rarer plants, obtained by Dr. Lucas in the 
same region : 
Mollineda longipes, (2) F.v. M.; Capparis nobilis, (2) F. v. M. 
Pittosporum rubiginosum, (4) Cunn. ; Polygala leptalea, (1) Cand. 
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