THE AU STEAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS ; 
Desckibed by Baron Yon Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 
( Continued.) 
Trichosanthes Holtzei. 
Branches angular ; leaves cordate or renate, with a deep and narrow sinus, 
otherwise lobeless, slightly scabrous above, subtle-hairy beneath ; tendrils two- 
branched ; flowers comparatively small, staminate and pistillate on the same 
plant, the former corymbous, the latter solitary and long-stalked ; lobes of the 
calyces small, linear- semilanceolar as well as the bracts ; tube of the pistilliferous 
calyx almost cylindrical ; lobes of the corolla ovate-lanceolar, long-fringed ; ovary 
slender. 
Near Port Darwin; M. Holtze. 
This species reminds of T. anguina, but the leaves are not lobed, the 
flowers somewhat smaller, the pistillate flowers provided with a long peduncle, 
and the fruit (which of our new plant remained unknown) will likely be also 
different. 
T. pentaphylla has been gathered by Mr. Pentzke on the Daintree-River, 
T. palmata by Mr. O’Shanesy near the Comet-River, and T. cucumerina by 
Mr. Persieh on the Endeavour-River. 
Bambusa Arnhemica. 
Rather tall ; leaves narrow-lanceolar, long-pointed, somewhat cuneate at the 
base, attenuated into the short free portion of the petiole, almost glabrous above, 
faintly downy beneath, slightly rough at the edge ; ligule short, hairy-fringed ; 
spikelets numerously crowded into dense distant clusters, narrow, many abbreviated, 
a few elongated, the latter with several fertile flowers ; outer floral bracts 
glabrous, acute, thinly nerved; innermost bract almost blunt, slightly ciliated, 
nearly as long as the outer bract ; sepals 3, very small, though conspicuous, 
roundish, hairy-fringed; anthers yellow, very narrow, blunt, unbearded; style 
short, trifid to near the base ; stigmas bearded ; ovary almost glabrous. 
On the Daly-River ; Moritz Holtze. 
Leaves (so far as seen on this occasion) about six inches long and one inch 
broad, of thinly chartaceous texture, hardly paler beneath, replicate in the young 
state. Peduncle slender, glabrous. Spikelets clustered at interstices along the 
peduncle ; the largest attaining a length of 2 inches. Racheole jointed, some- 
what silky. Bracts of the fertile flowers nearly i inch long ; innermost floral 
bract tender-membranous, faintly two-nerved. Stamens 6 ; filaments capillary ; 
anthers i J inch long, slightly bilobed at the base. Styles glabrous, nearly as 
long as the stigmas. Ovary slightly silky at the summit. Fruit as yet unknown. 
Mr. Paul Foelsche indicates the existence of two species of Bamboo on 
the Adelaide-River, one of much less size than the other ; so that still another 
species of Arnhem’s Land needs to be elucidated. Another Bamboo, though 
perhaps not belonging to the genus Bambusa, is known since nearly forty 
years to exist in the jungles of North-Eastern Australia, through Mr. Will. 
Carron’s account of Kennedy’s tragic expedition. From Mr. Pentzke I received 
specimens of this Bamboo as collected on affluents of the Daintree-River, which 
prove it a species with hard not very hollow canes ; flowers and fruits have not 
as yet been obtained ; but the sender remarks, that it reaches a height over 100 
feet, and that its branches are very spreading, leaning to the adjoining trees 
and growing intricately, indeed so interwovenly, that natural hedges are formed 
by the plant, yet the stems are seldom gaining beyond 1J inch diameter. 
(To be continued.) 
