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is similar. D. myoporoides is a common plant in the neighbourhood 
of Brisbane. All the species of the genus Anthocercis are 
interesting ; the plate herewith will enable observers to tind 
them. I have completed my examination of two only— A. Tas- 
manica , sent me by E. O. Cotton, Esq., of Kelvedon, Tasmania, 
and A. viscosa, obtained from Dr. Schomburgk, of the Adelaide 
Botanic Garden. Baron E. yon Mueller has given me all he can 
spare from his herbarium of the other species, but the quantities 
are insufficient for complete physiological experiments. I should 
therefore be pleased to obtain about an ounce or more of the 
dried plant of all the species except the two mentioned as exa- 
mined, also ripe seeds of all the species. It would be interesting 
to find some with the properties of Pituri ; so far as examined, 
all appear to have an action like that of Duboisia myoporoides. 
Persons searching for Pituri should take pai’ticular notice of the 
plate and the following description: — 
The Pituri grows about fifty miles east and west of .the 
138° meridian, the boundary between Queensland and South 
Australian territory, and from 22° to 25° south latitude. It is a 
shrub or small tree about 8 feet high, with a stem at the thickest 
part at times as much as G inches in diameter. Wood light, 
close-grained, lemon-col ourec 1 8 feith a smell of vanille when 
newly cut. Suckers spring uas G>und the tree from long rough 
roots spreading near the surface. Leaves 3 to 3^- inches long, 
pointed at both ends, \ inch wide, midrib distinct, margin 
slightly recurved. Flower a funnel-shaped tube from i to f of 
an inch long with five bluntish divisions spreading to about 
\ inch across. Three reddish lines run from each division down 
the throat of the flower, making altogether fifteen stripes. 
There are no hairs in the flower as in the genus Myoponm , 
which latter may be known by having four or five stamens of 
equal length. The pistil of the Pituri extends to the length of 
the two longer stamens. Stamens four, two long and two short 
anthers yellow kidney-shaped, filament attached to the concave 
side, the anther bursting along the convex margin ; best seen by 
examining a flower that is just at the point of opening. Fruit a 
green berry resting in the minute calyx. As it ripens it changes 
to black, and contains dark-brown kidney-shaped seeds covered 
with minute pits recognisable by the aid of a pocket lens. 
Ripe berries soon fall off, and should be looked for under the 
tree, as those gathered from the branches are not mature enough 
to germinate. 
Plants of the genus Anthocercis maybe known by the corolla 
lobes spreading out in a radiate manner, the word “ anthocercis ” 
meaning wheel-flower. The stripes running into the tube of the 
corolla are similar to the flower of Pituri described ; the stamens 
also are four, two longer than other two ; the lobes of the outer 
cup calyx are much sharper and prolonged. The fruit is a 
