Vol. xi.. No. 10. THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
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MELBOURNE-231 ELIZABETH STREET. 
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And 42 Cannon-street, London, E.C., England. 
A Strictly Intercolonial Journal. 
PubJtsJted 07} the 1st of each Mo7Xtli in direct association 
with 
‘•THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST” 
(TC^lfihUnhfd in Ltin-dnn, IftSO}. 
3Jnttrx to ITitfrarii Conitnia. 
New fin.'ijihalt-jd ri.int, W.A. Sl.'i 
Trade NoUa .. ... 215 
Obi*u‘!iy— T^itc R. II. R«>c ... 215 
Editon.'il Notes — 
Incorao TrtX and Chemists 2P* 
intercoloinaJ Rociprocity ... 21(5 
Pharmacy BUI of N.8.M . ... 217 
The Club Syslem— A Sug- 
gewB'd Remodjr 2JK 
A Startling British Gene- 
ralisation ... ... 219 
The Initialling of E.xc«sive 
Doses 219 
A Saturday A ftvnioou Holi- 
day 219 
New South 'tVale« 
The Ph.irmaey Bill of New 
Sooth ^\*Hle3 ... ... 
New Zealand 
Queensland ... ... 
South AuPtralia 
THsmania 
Victoria 
The Chemist*’ Half Holiday 
CorreRpondcnco 
Dental ... 
A New Genus of Hclichrysoid 
CojnpoaiGo 
Tndc Clarks 
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TRADE NOTES. 
A NEW GNAPHALOID PLANT FROM WES-'T — 
AUSTRALIA, • • . ’ • • 
Described by Baron* Ferd. Vo.n Mueller, K.C.M.GTM.D., 
Pn. D., LL.D., F.R.S. ' 
Tijsonia^ 
ITeaclIet? of flower.3 depressed-ttlobular or almost hemis^ 
pheric; involucre consisting of 3 0 leaf-like almost ovate 
bracts. Flowers numerous; all bisexual uniform, each sup- 
ported by a large tender, transparent, almost ovate or elliptic 
bract. Corolla gradually widened upwards, rienticuIar-Mve- 
lobed. Anther-cells protracted each at the base gradually 
into a capillulary appendage. Stigmas truncate. Achenes 
blunt at the summit. Pappus absent, or on the outer fruits 
forming a lobed short membrane. A sme-ll glabrous annual 
herb, with cordate-lanceolar leaves and solitary ternisnal 
flower-headlets. 
This new’ genus forms a link between Acomis and Cassinia, 
receding from the former in having the individual flowers 
provided with bracts, and from the latter in the poppus 
being absent or rudimentary. If some few of the outer 
floral bracts can bo regarded as involucral, then what has 
been described here as the involucre, must constitute floral 
leaves. This question cannot be settled from the only 
specimen transmitted. 
Ttjsonia phyUostegin. 
Near the Upper Murchison-river; Isaac Tyson, Esq. 
Whole plant, so far as known, only some few inches high, 
thinly few-branched. Leaves scattered, sessile or somewhat 
clasping, slightly nndular at the margin, dark-green on 
both sides. Headlets short-pedunculate or almost sessile, 
hardly to beyond ^-inch broad; involucral leaves scarcely 
surpassed by the flowers, dark-green, sometimes narrowly 
pale at the margin. Stamens partly exserted. Achenes 
slightly pubescent, when well developed nearly ovate. 
The promulgation of this singular plant in the present 
professional periodical affords an apt opportunity for draw- 
ing the attention of the many pharmaceutical chemists, 
now settled in far interior regions of Anstralia, to the fact 
that they have it in their power to add, in their respective 
localities, much to our knowledge of the native Flora; and 
it may here, then, bo specially pointed out, that among 
such tiny plants as the more novelties will likely be 
yet found than among the conspicuous plants. Minute 
plantlets, including even wee aquatics, moreover aro so 
easily dried and transmitted, that they could be more 
especially attended to during spring in their ephemeral 
existence. They are numerous in all parts of Australia, 
more so than in any of the great land-divisions of the globe. 
At the far inland places, phytologically as yet so imperfectly 
explored, the gatherers of these plantle'ts will therefore 
readily be rewarded by new discoveries, for which always 
public literary credit will be given. 
Since August of last year, Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. 
have prepared liquid Anti-Syphilitic Serum for pnrpoees of 
clinical trial, and are cow issuing it in the form of dried 
scales possessing the full potency of the liquid serum. 
Challenge Corn Paste, made by Mr. F. W. Chapman, 
230 Coliins-street, Melbourne, has been introduced to the 
general public by canvassers visiting every house in tba 
suburbs. The maker has recently registered the name 
“CballeDge’’ as a trade mark. ChemistB are being asked 
for it, and although it- is not exclusively a chemist’s article, 
yields a good profit as a Cd. line. 
^^enry Fisher & Co., 173 Clarence-street, Sydney, are 
introducing a new dental antiseptic— Borihe— a liquid of a 
golden yellow colour, said to be composed of the “active con- 
stituents of benzoin, wintergreen, meadov sweet, golden rod, 
witch hazel, combined with the stearoptenes of wild thyme, 
eucalyptus, peppermint, and boracic acid.” Possessing a 
fragrant odour, it has also a very agreeable taste. It is 
recommended not only for the teeth, but also for all catarrhal 
affections, as a dressing for wounds and sores, and in 
various other ways. 
OBITUARY, 
The Late R. H. Roe. — Very general regret is felt at the 
ontimely death of Robert Hardy Roe, who represented 
F. K. Stearns & Co., of Detroit, for so long a period, and 
made himself highly popular. He died at Yokohama on 
June 28 from fever. Mr. Boe was born at Ochavoe, in 
Ireland, in 1851. From the letter in which his firm 
announce the event to their agents, we take the following 
particulars: — Mr. Roe had been connected' with them for 
13 years ; first as travelling representative in Nebraska and 
Kansas for two years. In 1885 Stearns dc Co. decided 
to seek trade in Australia and India, and selected Mr. Roe 
for that important mission. He started on August 19. 
During the first trip, which was entirely aronnd the world, 
he visited all of Australasia, Asia, and Africa, returning to 
the United States November, 1891, after having been absent 
six years. Stearns & Co. were the first American house, 
and he the first American traveller in their line to visit this 
trade direct, and to bis valuable efforts is their present 
foreign trade largely due. It was after he had made 
so great a success that competing houses began to take 
up work in these countries. After two months in the latter 
part of 1891, he returned to Australia m January, 1892, and 
therefore had spent almost five years on this trip, when he 
was taken seriously ill in India, and had cabled from Hong 
Kong that he intended sailing for home immediately as he 
was too ill for business. This was the last advice from' 
him. The next news was the announcement of bis death 
from the Yoko):ama Hospital. Mr. Roe will long be 
remembered as a genial, honest business man, whose friends 
were legion. Ho was a born salesman, one whom neither 
prosperity nor hard times could change. His word was as 
good as his bond, and for years the only contracts between 
him and his firm was their mutual word to each other". In 
addition to his remarkable ability as a salesman, Mr. Roa 
was a frugal man. He made a good income and he saved 
it, so that his heirs will be well provided for. Though 
he had not travelled in Nebraska since 1885, his customers 
there were daily inquiring for “ Bob” Roe, and asking to be 
remembered to him. 
