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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
March, 1881. 
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In re C. and A. E. Pulling, of Swanston-street, wholesale 
druggists, Messrs. Ecroyd, Danby and Gilmour, acting with 
the committee appointed at the meeting of creditors, invited 
tenders for the stock, &c., as per statement, in eight lots. 
The tenders were opened on the 5th April, and that of Messrs. 
Felton, Grimwade and Co., being the highest, was accepted. 
There were four tenders sent in. 
In re W. Tayler and Co., Sydney, an offer of 6s. 8d. in the 
pound has been made in this estate, which has been accepted 
by the creditors. 
Mr. W. H. Greeves, after nineteen years’ residence in 
Woodend, has left that district, having disposed of his business 
to Mr. Geo, Lorimer. Mr. Greeves goes to settle at Hobart, 
and carries with him the good wishes of a large number of 
friends. 
The business of Mr. W. Stephens, of High-street, St. Kilda, 
has been purchased by Mr. J. Brinsmead, also of High-street, 
St. Kilda. "We understand that Mr. Brinsmead will remove 
from his present premises to those lately occupied by Mr. 
Stephens. 
Mr. Edwin Sharpe, 96 Chapel-street, Prahran, has trans- 
ferred his business to Mr. F. G. Bennett, formerly of Ballarat. 
The handsome exhibit of the Crown Perfumery Company at 
the International Exhibition has been sold to Mr. William 
Bowen, Collins-street. 
Mr. Walter Rowley has just removed into his new premises, 
No. 10 Bourke-street West ; the shop, which is next door to 
the one formerly occupied by Mr. Rowley, is one of the hand- 
somest in Melbourne, and is most elegantly fitted up. 
Mr. Rivers Langton is at present in Melbourne. 
At last advice Mr. Thos. Lakeman was in New Zealand 
(Auckland). 
Mr. Forrest (Messrs. Sleeman’s, Lime-street, London) is at 
present in Melbourue. 
Messrs. Maw, Son and Thompson advise a representative on 
the way to the colonies. 
Messrs. Jones and Co., surgical instrument makers, 108 
Lonsdale-street, have just imported some of the best work- 
men from their London firm (Mathews Brothers, Carey-street, 
London), and are now in a position to make instruments of 
every description in Melbourne. 
Mr. Kempthorne (Messrs. Kempthorne, Prossor and Co.), 
Dunedin, has been in Melbourne ; he returned to New Zealand 
by the last steamer. 
We have received from Mr. E. Rowlands, 116 Collins- 
street, Melbourne, a sample of a new non-alcoholic beverage, 
“ Vigorine.” It is an elegant preparation, and will no doubt be 
much in demand in cases where alcoholic stimulants would be 
prejudicial. 
NOTES ON A HITHERTO UNDEFINED SPECIES OF 
/ ENCEPHALARTOS. 
(By Baron Feed, yon Mueller, K.C.M.G., M D , Ph D 
F.R.S.) ’’ 
Our International Exhibition, which is just drawing to a close, 
has shed on many products of nature, and on numerous works 
of art from various parts of the world, a “ flood of light,” 
which will . lead us on to multifarious new commercial 
and industrial efforts, while, simultaneously, we have gained 
much additional information on the capabilities and resources 
of the Australian colonies. 
Even among the living plants, which for decorative purposes 
were displayed, some features of interest occurred in the 
Exhibition, and thus attention will be drawn in these pages to 
a cycadeous plant of imposing aspect, which had a place in 
the Queensland court. 
The plant under, consideration belongs to the sub-generic 
group of Macrozamia, which only on geographic considerations 
can be kept apart from the older South African genus 
Encephalartos, inasmuch as merely the more or less pro- 
truding and pungent summits of the flower and fruit scales 
offer a distinction of Macrozamia in contrast to Encephalartos ; 
but this characteristic is so variable even in Australian specie^ 
that already more than twenty years ago (in the quarterly 
journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria II. 90), I 
combined the two genera. Indeed, it would be no strain on 
natural arrangement within the order of Cycadese to take 
back both Macrozamia and Encephalartos to the original 
Linnasan genus Zamia, because the restriction of the 
latter in modern sense rests solely on a distinct articulation 
between the leaf-rachis and the leaflets ; for even if the 
entire absence of woody fibres in the medulla of the stem of 
all American Zamias could be proved, that character alone 
would not be of generic value, while in the very species of 
Encephalartos now to be brought under notice the aged 
leaflets secede on their own accord from the rachis, tardily, 
it is true, yet at least some of them perfectly as in Zamia 
proper, leaving a distinct cicatrix at the point of insertion. 
Nor could a mere geographic limitation of Zamia be main- 
tained when in the order of nearest alliance, that of Coniferae, 
we have Arancaria represented as well in South America as in 
East Australia and the adjoining islands, Libocedrus in West 
America, South Asia, and New Zealand, and Fitzroya in Chili 
and Tasmania, not to speak of the occurrence of Cypresses, 
Tuxus, and Juniperusin all the lands around the northern hemi- 
sphere, and of Pinus from the Sunda Islands westward to 
California, nor to mention the dispersion of Podocarpus to all 
the great divisions of the globe except Europe, and the 
occurrence of Callitris in North and South Africa as well as 
Australia. 
Alphonse de Candolle’s suggestion (Prodromus XVI., II., 
534) of reducing Bowenia to Encephalartos, as originating, 
but on other grounds from my own writings (fragment a V. 
171), because the leaf division is as variable in Clematis, 
Ranunculus, Aralia, Begonia, Manihot, &c., as it would be in 
Encephalartos if Bowenia were added, is not applicable, inas- 
much as comparisons of this kind could only be instituted in 
orders of close affinity, otherwise the characteristic of 
invariably opposite leaves in the vast order of Rubiaceas or 
the constantly quartering division of the flowers in the large 
order of Proteaceas would at once become invalidated. 
Whether the new cycadeous plant is placed into Zamia or 
Encephalartos or Macrozamia will depend on the individual 
view of any observer, as all genera are mere artificial groups 
to facilitate classification, and aid memory, while species in 
their true sense are originally created beings, which when 
perished, as has already been the case with many of them in 
St. Helena and some other places on the earth’s surface, can 
by all our human efforts not be restored, but would require 
the godly might as much for their restoration as they did for 
their origination. 
The species to be defined now is not altogether new, but 
was much misunderstood, it being mixed from imperfect 
material in the Flora Australiensis (VI. 253) with Macro- 
zamia Miquelii ; but the last mentioned plant as originally 
described from specimens obtained at the Richmond River is 
very closely akin to M. spiralis, which differs from the stately 
species exhibited in the Queensland Exhibition court in its 
very short stem, smaller and twisted leaves, longer leaf- 
stalks, narrower and above convex rachis, lax and very 
spreading and less pungent leaflets, which do not regularly 
approach nor partly overlap each other, in the lower leaflets 
a -*sing nearly as long as the middle ones, in smaller fruit cones 
on comparatively longer stalks, and in the middle and upper 
anther-scales being more suddenly contracted into a shorter 
point. Indeed, the true M. Miquelii is identical with the 
M. Corallipes, more recently published by Sir Joseph Hooker 
in his Botanical Magazine , t. 5943. 
The undescribed species which I wish to name in honour of 
Mr. Charles Moore, who cultivates it in the Sydney Botanic 
Garden, and who first drew attention to some of its charac- 
teristics, may be recognised by the following diagnosis : — 
Macrozamia Moorei. — Tall, glabroiis, leaf-stalks very 
short, younger leaves but very slightly twisted, older leaves 
straight , elongated, rachis very rigid above, almost flat towards 
the base, dilated, leaflets but little spreading , very numerous, 
all closely approximated, regularly distichous, very stiff, opaque, 
flat, very finely nerved, sharply pungent at the apex, lower 
leaflets regularly and gradually diminishing in length , the 
lowest successively, very short, and ultimately almost toothlike ; 
male cone rather long ellipsoid (cylindric), antheriferous scales 
rhomboid (wedgeshaped), the lower pointless, those towards 
the middle of the cone short pointed, the upper antheriferous 
scales longer and gradually acuminated, fruit-cone very large, 
elongated, lower fruit-scales pointless, those towards the 
middle of the cone terminating in an acumen of about half 
the length of the diameter of the lamina, those towards the 
summit of the fruit ending in an acumen almost as long as the 
lamina. 
With certainty known from the mountainous regions of 
Queensland at the verge of the tropics. 
