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MYRTACEiE. 
CAREYA ARBOREA. 
Roxburgh , Plants of the Coast of Coromandel , iii. t. 218. 
Port Denison. Extending around the north-eastern and northern coast to Arnhem’s Land. 
A tree never of great size. 
MYRCIA AUSTRAL AS1CA. 
Glabrous ; leaves thin-coriaceous, lanceolate-ovate, blunt-acuminate, short-stalked, with- 
out pellucid dots and without prominent veins, paler beneath ; peduncles axillary and terminal, 
short, few-flowered, rarely one-flowered ; pedicels hardly as long as the fruit ; lobes of the calyx 
4, short, triangular ; berry dry, spherical, one-seeded ; testa coriaceous, shining, smooth. 
Magnetical Island. 
A shrub 8-10 feet high. Branchlets somewhat angular when young, terete in age. 
Leaves 1-1 1 inch long, one-nerved. Peduncles and pedicels thin. Limb of the calyx when 
crowning the fruit 1 line in diameter. Berry measuring 3-4 lines, perfectly filled by the solitary 
seed. Testa brownish. Cotyledons green, foliaceous, very much contortuplicate, concealing 
the greater part of the curved and compressed subulate radicle, which is about 3 lines long. 
This plant can receive at present only a provisorial position, its flowers being unknown. 
But since no myrcioid genus or species has hitherto been found in the eastern hemisphere, I 
thought it desirable to introduce this very interesting acquisition to the Australian flora into this 
list. It is possible that the discovery of the flowers of this plant may stamp it generically 
distinct or referable to any of the other genera of the tribe, as arrayed by Dr. Berg in the 
seventeenth volume of Martius’s Flor. Brazil, and in the Linnsea for 1854. 
EUCALYPTUS PLATYPHYLLA. 
F. M. in Proceedings of the Linnean Society , iii. 93. 
Port Denison. 
TRISTANIA CONFERTA. 
R . Br. in Alton, Sort. Few. ed. ii. vol, iv. 417. 
Magnetical Island, Signal Hill, Upstart Bay. 
Leaves, flowers and fruits are smaller than those of T. macrophylla, which nevertheless 
is to be reduced as a variety to T. conferta. 
MELALEUCA LEUCADENDRON. 
Linne, Mantissa, 105. 
Port Denison, Cape Upstart. Common in North Australia. 
I am inclined to consider M. minor, M. Cajuputi, M. viridiflora, M. mimosoides, M. 
saligna, M. Cunninghami and M. Cumingiana all as mere forms of this species, produced by the 
diversity of localities occupied by the species. The shape of the leaves and the color and 
length of the stamens are equally variable. In the collection is also a variety contained with 
grey velvet-downy leaves, very interrupted spikes and stamens only inch long. 
EUPHORBIACEiE. 
PETALOSTIGMA QUADRILOCULARE. 
F. M. in Hooker's Journal, 1857, p. 17. 
Cumberland Islands. 
The I-Iylococcus sericeus R. Br. mentioned in Mitchell’s Tropical Australia, p. 389, but 
seemingly nowhere described, is, according to Dr. Jos. Hooker’s remarks, identical with this plant. 
PSEUDANTHUS PIMELOIDES. 
Sieber, in Spreng. Cur. Post. 25 ; Hndl. Atakta , ii. t. 11. 
Cape Cleveland. 
A shrub 6-8 feet high. Flowers, according to Mr. Fitzalan, white in a recent state. 
EUPHORBIA HYPERICIFOLIA. 
LinnS, Sp. PI. 660. 
Port Molle. Noticed also in many other parts of tropical Australia. 
RHAMNACE^E. 
COLUBRINA ASIATICA. 
Brogniart, in Annal. des Scienc. Nat. x. 369. 
Cumberland Islands. 
OELASTRINE^E. 
CELASTRUS DISPERMUS. 
F. M. in Th'ansact. Phil. Inst. Viet. iii. 31. 
Cape Cleveland. 
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