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BRYOLOGICAL NOTES. 



will be found in the former, but since that work was printed the 

 third volume of Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum has 

 been published and there we find it in the latter order. 



The plant is met with in the coast swamps of India, China, 

 the Philippine Island, New Guinea and other countries, and its 

 various parts are made to serve many useful purposes by the 

 inhabitants. In the Philippines the juice is converted into RUgar, 

 an analysis of the juice is given at page 568 of the Synopsis of the 

 Queensland Flora. 



BOTANICAL NOTE. 



By F. M. Bailey, F.L.S. 



The plant described as Acacia melaleucoides, Bail, is synonymous 

 with Albizzia Sutherlandi, F. r. M. f and is figured in Decade XII 

 of the Australian Acacias, as A. Sutherlandi, F. r. M. 



BRYOLOGICAL NOTES. 



By C. J. Wild, Esq. 



The following Plants, collected by the Author, are additions to the 

 Queensland Flora : — 



Symblepharis perichaetialis, Wils. 



Habk. PI. N.Z. p. 405, (Symblepharis). Stem erect, branched, 

 ± to 1 inch high. Leaves crowded, ereeto-patent, crisped when dry, 

 lanceolate below, narrowed to a long subulate point, quite entire, 

 channelled j nerve continuous ; margin flat ; perichretial very long, 

 sheathing; fruitstalk J to 1 inch long, pale; annulus s nail, persistent; 

 teeth 32, erector recurved when moist, dull red, 2-fiJ at the apex, 

 perforate below ; operculum as long as the capsule, almost setaceous ; 

 calyptra twice as long : male infloresmce unknown. Trichostoraum, 

 Hook. Muse Exot. t. 73 ; Olomitruui, Brid. ; Symblepharis, Mont.; 

 Acalyphum cylindricum, Palisit ; Sprucea, •! Hook, and Wils. Fl. 

 Antarct. [, 128 



Pimpama, C. J. Wild. 



