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PETALOSTIGMA BANKSII, sp. n. 
By James Brirren, F.L.S., anp Spencer Moors, F.L.S. 
(PratE 458.) 
In preparing for Hs see the account of the plants collected 
by Banks and Solander during hs First Voyage, the concluding 
t of which will be issued during the current year, it became 
herbarium, but subsequent search led to its detection, bearing tho 
MS. name which it bore on the plate and by which fl had been 
described in MS. The specimen, not a very good one, like the 
drawing, only represented the fruiting stage; but tonttiat: investiga- 
tion led to its identification with flowering examples collected by 
oor t Brown in ea The engraving from SE figure 
Il be ¢ reproduced in the Botany of Cook’s Voyage; but the plant 
aot of sufficient pereein to justify the publicatiott of a plate 
showing the flowering state of the plant, which appears to be new. 
The original description will accompany the engraving ; the follow- 
ing has “been drawn up from o sponmeays one or two details being 
added from Brown’s MS. deser 
Robt ees eee Belden’ & 8. Moore, sp. nov. ae 
dio bundanter foliosis cinereis crebro 
oolliterié foliis } potialatin ovato-oblongis vel oblongo-obovatis ‘spine 
is vel 
ummum puberulis tenuiter coriaceis supra in sicco olivaceis subtus 
aliqgaeaitadtith pallidioribus, florum masc. Ng pee segmentis obo- 
vatis vel obovato- oblongis teary extus dense fulvo-sericeis, 
u sup 
segmentis 4 (ex schedis beat. R. Brown 4-6) exterioribus ovato- 
oblongis interioribus rotundatis illis obiaain his obtusissimis, ovario 
anguste ovoideo dense fulvo-sericeo 8-4 loculo, styli ramis 4 
‘‘rarius 38” R. Br.) palace: pak torquatis marginibus 
undulatis, capsula (ad normam generis) drupacea og cee lutea 
glabra 8-suleata 8- (vel 6) abel, sats (teste si r.) oblongis 
es SS rece luteo-fuscis (in sicco fusco-purpure 
eayour River ; Bank s & Solander, 
—28, 
9-1-3 cm. lat.; costa “aedia cringe come bets 
long., 0- 
secundaris 3-5- shgis ascendentibus se#pe 
a 0:4 cm. long., puberuli. Florum masc. soa anthesin modo 
0-8 cm. diam., pedicelli 0- 1-0" 2 em. long., anagem ; 0 pre 
um 
0- na 
O-1 alt., circa 0°38 cm. diam.; anthere 0-1-0°13. cm. pao 
filéanenia fere duelo excedentes. Florum fem. pedicelli crassi 
Journat or Borany.—Vou. 41. [Juty, 1903.] Q 
