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tays 12 to 15, more numerous in the disk and longer than the inyolucre. 
_ Achenes more or less villous. Pappus white, with a few short outer 
 bristles.—Flora Austr. iii. 479. 
Hab.: Stanthorpe district, 7. Kirkland. I have also specimens of this plant 
_ Which were collected by A. Cunningham, at Dumaresq River in 1827. The 
: eo as also 0 collected in New South Wales by A. Cunningham, C. Fraser, and 
Order APOCYNACEA. 
Triste PLUMERIEZ. 
OCHROSTA, Juss. 
b.Powert (a. sp.) (After R. = Bowen a resident in - district, 
tom whom a specimen of the fruit was first obtained in 1894.) A 
ae small tree or tall ea branchlets pm we Leaves 
opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate e, about 4 or 5 in. long, 
chlo to a petiole of 2 or 3 lines; apex blunt but more or less 
aad ene on both sides, the under somewhat paler in colour, 
‘transverse veins only faintly visible, although the 
= of “the leaf is not thick. Flowers in dichotomous cymes 
age g tho branchlets; primary peduncle very short, often 
wareely exceeding 1 line in length; secondary pedun gare about 
Ppa long, frequently only one of these produced, d, whi again 
Hy 
“the ar 2 or 3 nearly sessile or shortly pedicellate Sonaes at 
end. Braets and bracteoles minute with scarious margins. Calyx- 
“gents 5 or 6, obtuse, thickened in the centre, the ig trans- 
t. Corolla not seen. Ovar ary glabrous, Fruit 2, drupe-like 
7 Nag oe red, ovoid-oblong, caeinbe. nearly 
fete, 12 or ong, endocarp nearly smooth. Seed similar in 
x to the fruit flat, about half the e Tength of of the fruit, only one in 
‘f i examined. Flowers are much desire 
ooh otha Field bes Excursion, Nov. 18 995. This new species 
doting, peor F. v. M., in hav aving opposite leaves, but ailfers from the 
"ption given of f that a any other species known to me 
Order BIGN RELATES 
oetee sh NIA, F. v. 
F. Capsule a d 
H _ broad, , tapering eee med endis, wet smooth, opening 
Wels: very concave valves, as in Tecoma; the seeds also 
si aying each other in several rows, as in that genus. Seeds = 
nated wrinkled, surrounded by a membranous wing W ie 3 
‘ pated on either side to nearly half-an-inch, and broad as the seed 
at the centre between them. Dissepiment broad, thick, 
— “atraien attached to the valves or one of them than 
: a the plants of this order. ae 
fae that tru oe Creek, Cairns, Z. J. Nugent. I believe this is the first 
of Haussmannia has pes found. : 
Order PEDALINEZ. 
MAR'TYNIA, Lino. . 
See @, Glox. Unicorn plant. A coarse seek Peed 
Sig es cordate, roundish, often oblique, entire or obscurely 
4 to 12 in. in diameter. Bracts oblong linear. 
