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Banks, an act of generosity on which particular stress was laid 
in the necrology of Banks in the French Academy. The results 
of LaBillardiere’s researches during D’ Entrecasteaux’s expe- 
dition are largely contained in the two folio volumes, “‘ Novae 
Hollandize plantarum specimen,’ 1804-6; in the “ Relation 
du voyage a la recherche de La Perouse,” 1799, of which soon 
subsequently an English translation appeared. Further, in 
the illustrated quarto publication, “ Sextum Austro-Cale- 
donium”’ (1824-5), his three weeks’ stay in New Caledonia 
during D’Entrecasteaux’s voyage affording La Billardiere the 
opportunity to shed almost the first scientific light on the 
largely endemic vegetation of that island, but very little 
having been elucidated of that flora by the two Forsters 
previously. 
Sir James Smith having already, in 1793, dedicated the 
genus Billardiere to the botanical companion of D’Entre- 
casteaux, it being founded on the widely distributed south- 
east Australian Billardiere scandens, to which, curiously 
enough, LaBillardiere was able to add in Tasmania the 
graceful and elegant B. longi flora De Candolle, described a 
third in 1824, Bentham a fourth in 18638, while in late years 
four species more were added to the genus by myself. (See 
Census of Australian plants, p. 7.) It seems, however, not 
likely that the genus will receive further additions to its 
eight now known species. 
DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF TERTIARY 
FOSSIL PLANTS BELONGING TO THE GENERA 
KUCALYPTUS and TAXITES. 
By Rogzert M. Jounston, F.L.S. 
[Read August 10, 1885.] 
Among a very interesting collection of Fossil Plants, now 
in the Royal Society’s Museum, I have discovered a new 
species of Kucalyptus. This collection contains numerous 
impressions of leaves belonging to the genera Laurus, Cinna- 
momum, Fagus, Magnolia, and others more difficult to 
determine. The general character of these remains (at one 
time carefully numbered) as well as the species Cinnamomum 
polymorphoides, McCoy indicate that they probably belong 
to the same horizon as the lower zone of the Launceston 
Tertiary Basin. 
