72- New Australian Plants. 



stalked, with short axillary or terminal one or few-flowered 

 peduncles, and nearly white flowers. 



This pretty genus, to which I attached the name of our 

 friend Dr. Rich. Eades, differs from Anthocercis in a nearly 

 bilabiate corolla, one-celled anthers, and few-seeded capsule. 



Eadesia anthocercidea. 

 Shady places in the ranges near Mount Zero. C. Wilhelmi. 



Proteace^e. 



Macadamia. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, symmetrical, in racemes; sepals 



four, spathulate linear, recurved at the apex, deciduous ; 



stamens four, inserted near the middle of the sepals ; 



filaments longer than the anthers ; connective protruding 



beyond the linear anther cells ; hypogynous annulus 



denticulated ; germen sessile ; style filiform, deciduous ; 



stigma vertical, continuous, blunt, upwards but slightly 



thickened ; capsule nearly woody, dehiscent on one side; 



seeds unknown. 



A tree of oriental subtropical Australia, with leaves three 



in a whorl or rarely opposite, lanceolate or oblong, flat, with 



pointed teeth, or above the base entire, net-veined, with 



stomata at the lower side; racemes terminal pedunculate; 



flowers twine, with a solitary bract. 



A beautiful genus, allied to Adenostephanus, Orites and 

 Xylomelum, dedicated to John Macadam, Esq., M.D., the 

 talented and deserving Secretary of our Institute. 



Macadamia ternifolia. 



In forests on the Pine River of Moreton Bay. Hill and 

 Mueller. 



Explanation of the Plate. — 1. Bract and pedicels, 2. Unexpanded 

 flower. 3. Half-expanded flower. 4. Expanded flower. 5. Germen 

 and annulus. 6 7 8. Anthers. 9 10. Fruit (natural size) . All parts, 

 except 9 and 10, more or less magnified. 



Grevillea Hilliana. 



Branchlets brown silky, leaves large, ovate oblong, blunt, 

 entire or pinnatifid, cuneate at the base, flat, net-veined, 

 above glabrous, beneath silvery-silky ; their segments 

 oblong lanceolate ; racemes axillary and lateral, solitary, 

 pedunculate, silky, densely many-flowered; bracts minute, 

 lanceolate, deciduous ; calyx small, inside and style gla- 



