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within the margin, petioles age Scien under $in. —_ deep green | 
ani glossy like the upper surface of the t, 
i inal trichot 
the ayers pure white, ovate, stamen numerous, exceeding lin. 
length, filaments very slender. Anthers minute. Style filiform longer 
the stick mens. vary 2-celled, ovules numerous In eac cell. 
Fruit globular, bright red, 1 in. awed containing a solitary seed. 
b. : Summit - Blackall Range, Field Naturalists, March, 1891 ; Richmont | 
River, 2. D. Fitz zgerald, F.v.M. 
Probably this teins ‘the “— a aa flower of ted Nepiperge ant and me 
certainly we have nothing to surpass i ur gardens; the odour resembles that 0 
the jasmine or orange flower, but ane couiiee eee ae plant of that genus know | 
me. 
While these pages were being commuter my usual custom—I sent to 
aron Mueller for — . — herbarium specimens of all the new species recorded 
From these he foun w Eugenia, his had named Z. odoratissima, wis 
identical with a pemer eo “the Richmond River, which he had described, but ne 
published — re — of E. Fitzgeraldi. 1 have therefore, at Baron Mueller’ | 
request, allow to lapse that this lovely species may bear the na 
our mutual fitend « eel di fellow worker, R. D. Fitzgerald, the author of an excellently 
illustrated monograph of the Australian Orchidem. 
Order LORANTHACEZ. 
LORANTHUS, Linn. 
L. dictyophlebus, fv. Fruit globose, red, about five line 
diameter, apex umbonate, say juicy, closely resembling red curranls | 
when ripe. 
Hab. : Eudlo Creek scrubs, on an acacia, Field Naturalists, March, 1891. 
the under surface; primary veins alone visible, a 
of midrib, thortus near the margin. Stipules brown, mor ee 
hairy, but very deciduous. Flowers small, sessile, or nearly 80, few, ® 
very short aches at the end of a slender 4- angled peduncle ide | 
1 in. long. Calyx hairy, 5-toothed. Corolla ovoid, seit! outsi@ | 
bes 
earded within. Lobes about as long as the tube uit Bae 
: Order RUBIACEZ. 
Tre PSYCHOTRIEX. 
SYCHOTRIA, Linn 
, var. glabre (nf.) A. slendes 
usually erect glabrous shrub, more or less branched, 5 to 7 it. hee / 
nceol 1 to 22 in. long; petiole about in. long, peel 
e or less 
ah Bellenden Ker Range, Expedition, 1889 ; Eud and Yandina Se - | 
Field Naturalists, 1891. In the t jel rete ‘the “panicle is stgh es 
developed, and the stipules are larger, more hairy, and m 
A ere oe) ; 
Fr. Simmondsiana, var exigua (n.f.) 
branched shrub of 3 or 4 ft. sates except the flowers. Learé : 
narrow, lanceolate, } to 14 in o 
: Macpherson Range, a. ts and H. Tryon, March, 1891. | ot 
al locality Messrs. Schneider and Tryon also gathered specimens of the noms 
