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Mu eller, F. Systematic Census of PEEL Plante. Melbourne, 
1882-9. 4to. pp. 152, with four supplem 
M .J. H. The useful Native Plants z desinis and Tasmania, 
1889. Svo. pp. 696. 
The recorded betel & Plants and Ferns of the whole of Australia 
number about 8,900 species, of which upwards of 7,600 are peculiar to 
the country. They belong” to 1,394 genera and 149 natural orders. 
Small, hard leaves and brilliantly coloured flowers abound. Specially 
characteristic of this Flora are the capsular Myrtaces (including the 
Gum-trees— Eucalyptus), Leguminose (incl uding the phyllodineous 
posses a ee reais soba Myoporine, and Grass trees— 
anthorrh 
New Sours Watrs.—On the eastern side of Australia, ex tending 
from about 29? to 37° S. lat., and westward to the 141st meridian of 
E. long., the area ed estimated at 310,700 square miles. The Murra 
river on the south forms the boundary of Victoria. Mount Sea View, 
at the junction of mé Tiverpont and New England ranges of hills, 
reaches a height of 6,000 feet. 
Moore, C. Woods of New South Wales. Sydney, 1871. 8vo. 
Woolls, W. Plants z iram in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 
Sydney, 1880. Svo. p. 6 
Lorp Howe’s ISLAND bos t 300 nee east of Port Macquarie, 
N. S. Wales, in 159° E. long. and 32° It is seven miles in length, 
of nearly 3,000 feet. Of volcanic origin, with an | ext fertile 
soil, and everywhere covered with a dense vegetatio 
oore, C. Sketch of the Vegetation of Lo a dod Island: A 
report to the Governor of New South bed fol., pp. 4, 
The flora of this island is brac € h N. S. Wales in Bentham’s 
eue E 3 
ES Sabes 
Island, though € Scho s Araucaria iind the order Coniferz are wholly 
nting. Palms conspicuous, consisting of three endemic species, 
namely, Kentia Belmorea ana, bns Canterburyana, and Clinostigma 
Mooreanum. The onest t s are Hibiscus Patersonii, Myoporum 
~ acuminatum, and Dehresiá elliptica. Caps Iyrtaceæ are represented 
by one species each of Melaleuca and (— and Epacridee by 
one Dracophyllum. Proteacer are wholly wanting, and Leguminose 
nearly so; among the few of ees order is one species of the otherwise 
Batts Pyramip is a small JB between Norfolk [sland and Lord 
Howe's Island. 
UEENSLAND.—This Colony occupies the iere of north-eastern 
Australia, from Cape York to Point Danger, the northern boundary of 
New South Wales, and it extends westward to 1 138° ] E. long. ‘The total 
area is estimated at 668,497 square miles ; and it is about 1,300 miles 
from north to south and 900 miles in its greatest breadth. 
Bailey, F. M. Handbook of the Ferns of EN. Brisbane, 
1874. Small 8vo. pp. 72, and 22 pages of figu 
Bailey, F. M. lllustrated Monograph of the E. of Queensland. 
Brisbane, 1878. 1 vol. folio. 
Bailey, os M. and Tenison-Woods, J. E. A Census of the Flora 
of Brisban : Pro ceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 
iv. (1880), pp. 117-204. Orders, 123; genera, 633 ; species, 1,228. 
