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Order SAMYDACEA. 
HOMALIUM, Jacq. 
@. circumpinnatum (n. sp.) Shuttlecock Flower. (Named 
from the flowers resembling a miniature shuttlecock.) A tall glabrous 
setaceous bract nearly as long. Flowers grey, hairy, about 3 lines 
2 or 3, 
petal; filaments hairy in the lower half, the ovary not so densely. 
Styles 5. 
Hab. : Cairns, EZ. Cowley. 
The present new species differs from H. vitiense, Benth., in its smaller statur 
less hairy pedicellate flowers, and smaller setaceous bracts, than H. brachybotrys, 
F. v. M., in its larger flowers and greater number of stamens. 
Order CUCURBITACEA. 
MELOTHRIA, Linn. 
M. Celebica, Alfred Cogniaue, in DC. Mon. Phan. iii. 625. Stems 
climbing, slender, very little branched, suleate, and sparsely rough with 
tubercles. Leaves somewhat rigid, triangular-ovate, slightly trilobed, 
pale green, and roughly dotted on the upper side, densely villous 
3 Corolla very shortly villous, segments oblong, apex obtuse, 2 
- jong. Stamens-filaments } mill. 
glabrous, smooth, 33 cent. long, 23 cent. thick. Seeds brown, ovoid- 
shortly attenuated at the base, rounded at the apex, 6 mill, 
3 to 8i mill, broad, 1} to 2 mill. thick—From DC. Mon 
Order UMBELLIFERZ. 
Trrrzr AMMINEZ. 
AMMI, Linn. 
_ (Name from ammos, sand: ‘habitation of plants.) 
od Teeth of ealyx obsolete or small. Petals obovate, with an 
exed point, emarginate, or with 2 unequal lobes ; the exterior ones 
equently larger. Fruit laterally compressed, ovate-oblong. Carpels 
filiform equal ribs; the lateral ones ma inal, Interval with 
vitte, commissure with 2 vitte, carpophore free, 2- 
