128 PROCEEDINGS. 



Washington — United States Hy orographic Office. Notice 

 to Mariners, Nos. 13-16, 1890. Chart No. 1192, 

 North America, West Coast of Lower California 

 South Bay (Cerros Island.) The U.S. Hydrographer. 



Wellington — New Zealand Institute. Transactions and 



Proceedings, Vol. xxn., (Fifth of New Series) 1889. The Institute 



MlSCEL LANEOUS. 



(Names of Donors are in Italics.) 



Brown, H. Y. L. — Geological Map of the Tertiary Deposits 

 of the Hundred of Barossa, South Australia. 



Prof. Liversidge, M.A., f.r.s. 



Peek, Cuthbert E., m.a., f.s.a. — Meteorological Observations 

 at the Eousdon Observatory, Devon, for the year 

 1889. The Author. 



Service, John, l.r.c.s. and p. Edin. — Thir Notandums, being 

 the Literary Eecreations of Laird Canticarl of 

 Mongrynen, &c. The Author. 



Statistical Abstract and Record of the Dominion of Canada 



for the year 1888. Frank Coffee, Esq. 



The Australian Vigneron, Vol. i., No. 2, June 1, 1890. The Publisher. 



Trilbner's Record. Third Series, Vol. n., Part i., No. 249, 

 1890. 



Eoyal Society of New South Wales, Journal and Proceed- 

 ings, Vols, for 1880-1886, and 1888. F. C. Griffiths, Esq. 



RECORD OF HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED PLANTS 



FROM ARNHEIM'S LAND; 



By Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, k.c.m.g.,m.d.,ph.d., f.r.s. &c. 



[Read before the Royal Society, N.S.W., September 3,1890.~\ 



Habenaria Holtzei. 



Glabrous ; lower leaves narrowly elongate-lanceolar, the next 

 gradually smaller, the upper more bractlike ; spike densely small- 

 Howered ; bracts linear towards the base, gradually narrowed 

 upwards, much pointed, about as long as the flowers or surpassing 

 them in length ; calyx-lobes white, broadly lanceolar, the lower 

 oblique ; paired petals also white, narrower than the calyx-lobes, 

 but nearly as long, broadish towards the base ; labellar petal 

 slightly longer than the others, its middle lobe upwards filiform- 

 linear, the lateral lobes several times shorter, deltoid-semilanceolar, 

 the descending appendage clavate-nliform, about as long as the 



