14 
= See gg D. C., Prod. v., _ Oliver’s Fl. Trop. Africa iii., 303. 
tect or ascendin ng herb, $ 05 ft. high, asperulous or minutely 
or ohtnae terminal lobe ovate or ovate-rotundate, or lateral lobes 
wanting, dentate, sessile or attenuate at the base into a late or slender 
etiole, membranous, 14 to 3 in. long; upper ones smaller. Flower- 
ads subglobose, mee new ered, 14 to 8 lines diameter, on unequal 
pedicels ranging up to 1 in. long, in lax terminal divaricate panicles. — 
Scales of involucre arbbieeri ate, obovate or broadly elliptical, mem-— 
ined, fimbriate-ciliate, uearly glabrous. Receptacle 
depresso- pe neon: papillose-pitted, constricted Laid about 7 
line broad, orolla of female-floret tubular 2 to 8-dentate; of the 
ania pire florets campanulate constricted below. Achenes obovate, 
compressed, glabrous or very nearly so.—Oluver, l.c. 
<= 54 
nm 
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Hab. : Peg yon ae ller writes me that he has received specimens of this 
plant from h Queensland. The plant enjoys a wide range, being ncles us to 
tropical and i south Afri ah “the? East Indies, Hongkong, and many other pla 
Trips HELIANTHOIDE. 
ZINNIA, Linn. 
australis (n. sp.) An erect- ger og annual, about 
res ft. high. Stem angalar, hairs white and very numerous on n the 
ant. L i 
of the flower head. Achenes ei orate, with a sit oudtb, 
or less Fk Si with ciliate m 
Hab.: Walsh River, 7. mienatia 
It is most interesting to meet with an indigenous species of Zinnia in Austral 
as hitherto the anc was thought to be confined to the new world. : 
Order MYRSINEZ. 
TriszE EUMYRSINE®. 
ARDISIA, ee 
Vict. Naturalist 
March, 18 An arborescent pisbrors wea of about 15 ft. high 
aves attaining 8 in. in length and 1} in.in lta of a ne tere 
etioles short. Pedun ncle abo ut 4 in. aa: Aside small ona 
leaves. Rhachis thick, } in. long, cicatricous. Pedicels about 1 we 
long, very thin, up to 40 ins fascicle, at first bent downward. aly 
very small, its lobes semi-orbicular-deltoid. Corolla about 2 ne Jon 
deeply - cleft, the segments about twice as long as broad, ac : 
copiously spot otted by purplish-black dots or agate streaks, before © 
pansion Tishinetly twisted. Filaments extremely eas anthers pointed 
