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beset with spreading very short hairlets; calyx-lobes omaithal pale- 
reddish beneath, dark-purplish above; petals absent; apex of anthers 
extremely short ; styles glabrous; summi bibs ovulary beset with 
minute hairlets ; "fruit l1-seeded ; testule fae , glabrous; alb 
copious ; cotyledones pede dark-green, one oatiaulaa flexuous, 
20g Jonge er than the radicle. 
: On Mount Bais Frere, in the — ing cage Jo ee 
aA the lapse of sixt y years, since the second species became this 
third and evidently rare species has been dinpaviied. the first (on wich, ‘Sir J James 
Smith established the genus) having become eliicidated nearly one hundred years 
p m the r co ers by th 
on 
the iitiation thus takin place at the june rice * the stalklets with ve leafstalk ; 
moreover, the venular Mtio ulation ‘of the leaflets is less promment as 1 either of 
the two other species. n some respects it tacts between the two, it having 
normally trifoliate leaves like C. gummaforis, though of much latte ie while it 
is devoid of petals like C, apetalum geo nearest se preci how sie is to the last 
mentioned congener. This is ~~ fire t record of t enus as represented also in 
Queensland. Occasionally two seeds are matu og in ie fruits ot ©. proce abies 
and therefore likely n the tire sae DENS: and in Schizome 
This small seca foi the Australian floral world i vatulatorly cai to 
Professor 1 Rudolph Virchow at the time of the public velobratian of his 70th birth- 
day, 80 that his illustrious name may be identified for ever also with the living 
creation of this part of our planet, where his great pathologic teachings have not less 
contributed to th e advancement of medical science than in other parts of the 
globe.—F. v. M. i 
Order MYRTACEZX 
TRIBE LEPTOSPERMEA. 
LEPTOSPE RMUM, Forst. 
Secrron EULEPTO OSPERMUM. 
L. arachnoideu m, Sm., Trans. Linn. Soe. iii. 268; FI. Austr. ii. 
105. (lt i is probable 4 tha t the e name apacknoidnda refers to the v 
oe resemblance of the fruit to the body of a hairy spider.) A rigit 
intric vege branched shrub 5 or 6 ft. a branchlets ae or less 
Btethonpe; on swampy lan d. 
Order LYTHRARIEZ. 
AMMANNTA, Lina. 
A. ee ee = v. A, Fragm. iii. 108; Fl. Austr. iii. gat i A slender 
