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Neue Litteratur. 
Mneller, Ferd., Baron von, Description of a new Papuan Ternstroemiaceous 
Plant. (From the Yictorian Naturalist. 1886. October.) 
fTrematanthera. Calyx deeply five-lobed, persistent. Corolla 
five-cleft almost to tbe base, the segments twisted-imbricate betöre 
expansion. Stamens numerous, connate mto an only shghtly filamen- 
tous membrane; anthers narrow-oblong base-fixed , blunt, glabrous, 
opening by two terminal pores; pollen-grams almost ovate, smooth, 
burstmg by longitudinal fissures. Style filiform, formediby concre- 
scence of five into one, entire; stigma minute, undivided. Ovary 
nearly free, five-celled, with very numerous ovules m eaeh i celi ion 
axillary placentas. Capsule indehiscent, depressed-globular adnate to 
the calyx slightly beyond the base. Seeds minute, multitudmous, 
mostly truncate-ovate; albumen comparatively large; embryo straight, 
cylindric-ellipsoid; cotyledons half as long as the radicle. 
A shrub with scattered almost lanceolar crenulate-serrulated leaves 
with axillary solitary paired or ternate rather long stalked flowers 
without hypocalycine bracteoles and with comparatively small frui s. 
The crenus, thus now defined, differs from all others of the Order 
exceot Sarauia and Pentaphylax, in the dehiscence ot the anthers, but 
is widely separated from these two in various other respects, eommg 
nearest to Cleyera, Adinanara and Eurya, recedmg 
in not extensively free filaments, m not longitudmally opening anthers 
and not curved embryo. 
Trematanthera Dufaurii. De ^ ouri ° n ^ Ranles 
W. Ar mit (Argus-Expedition); near the Owen Stanley s Range , 
H. 0. Forbes (355, 785). 
Plant in general appearance not unlike Cleyera Japonica, resembling 
also some Euryas, quite glabroas except minute scaly glancls occunng 
on the young branchlets and on the underside of the leaves. Petioies 
i /3 23 inch long, slender. Leaves firm-chartaceous, oblong-o 
lanceolar flat, attaimng a length of 4 and a breadth of l l 2 inches, 
but often of less size. dark-green above, pale-green beneath, sligrhtly 
or hardly acuminated, callous-glandularly denticulated, ascmidingy 
rostate subtle-veined. Peduncles usually absent, seldom elon ated. 
Pe diel es »/2-1 inch long, very thin, beanng one or two minute almost 
lanceolar bracts neai^ or below the middle. Hypocalycine bracteo es 
none. Lobes of the calyx from a broad base oblong-semiovate, 
about three times longer than the undivided basal portion, ra rely 
reduced to four in number, the two outer somewhat skalier. Corolla 
deciduous about '/3 inch long, rather membranous ; lts co or not re- 
cognisable in a dried state; the segments broadly ^essde "eiar^y 
cuneate-ovate. Stamens inserted along the base of the corolla but 
free from it; the membranous connate portion of the stamens about 
as long as the anthers and only partially divided into very s . 
mprlts S anthers forming a few irregulär rows, about ’/ 12 inch long, 
Äisb Style about 1 8 inch long. Ovary adnate in its ower 
^ j.* „ r arelv 4-celled Fruit from hardly V 4 f° rather moie than /s 
LÄat almoft completely snperior f septa thin, plan» as T ery 
_ Arn : n(J r,t Seeds from 1/^4 to 1 30 inch long, sometimes verging into 
an almost globular form, outside brown, reticulated by copious close 
impressions; moistened testa mucilaginous; embryo white, somewhat 
shorter than the albumen. 
This notable and pretty plant is dedicated to E. Du Faur Esq., 
F R G S one of the first originators of the Australian Geographical 
Society who not only devoted as a member of ite administrative 
Council’ much attention to the Society’s Expeditions mto IS ew Guinea 
but who also upheld perseveringly in later years the cause oi the 
long-lost Dr Leichardt and the unfortunate compamons ofthat 
renowned and lamenteu explorei.] 
