BOTANY: 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO QUEENSLAND FLORA. 
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Order ANONACEZ, 
Trine MITREPHOREA. 
HAPLOSTICHANTH US, F. v. M. in Vict. Nat. 1891. 
Sepals 3, deltoid, early valvate ; petals 6, uniseriate-valvate in bud, 
completely connate towards the base, thus forming a 6-lobed corolla, 
3 of the lobes deltoid, 3 doubly as long and almost semi-elliptie, all 
remaining much connivent ; torus depressed ; stamens about 30, of 
pyramidate-cuneate, their connectives at the summit slightly convex or 
almost truneate and somewhat peltate, concealing the cells; ovularies 
6, with sessile depressed stigmas ; fruit unknown. Shrub with com- 
paratively small chartaceous leaves, and with short-stalked, solitary, 
dark-coloured flowers of remarkable smallness. 
This new Anonaceous genus seems best placed into the tribe of Mitrephoree, 
but it agrees with the otherwise very different Heralobus in t e ward 
conspicuously-connate petals. As regards the 6 petoline parts, placed in a single 
tow, this plant seems to stand wlone in the whole order, large as it is. The 
circumscription, however, of many of the genera needs revision also in this order, as 
much new material has been obtained during later years, affecting the generic limits 
as drawn formerly. The style and stigma offer good notes for primary distinctions 
aso.— Fv. M. Lc. 
H. J. ohnsoni, F. v. I, Vict. Nat. 1891. Young branchlets thinly 
pubescent. Leaves almost sessile, rather narrowly lanceolar, acuminate, 
ut at the base obliquely rounded, when young scantily beset with 
hay hairlets, subsequently glabrescent, paler green beneath, from 
n. ion 1 
Out, only 2-in. in diameter. Corolla outside beset with minute appressed 
hairlets, the connate portion quite as long as the 3 deltoid lobes, without 
any sutural indications ; the 8 longer lobes somewhat triangular at the 
summit. 
anthesis n 
Hab. : Mount Bartle-Frere, Stephen Johnson. 
Aspect : That of Alphonsea zeylanica. 
Order MALVACEZ. 
Trine HIBISCEZ. 
HIBISCUS, Linn. 
x. Burtonii (n. s ‘After R. C. ction, to whom the writer is 
indebted for ae of many rare plants from the islecknany 
‘*8lons of Queensland.) A rather straggling small shrub, closely 
Stamens only about ;,-in. long. Sele aig silky, during 
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