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Neue Litteratur. 
nearly half an inch broad, when well developed; the lobes of the 
orifice not quite membranous. Fruit much depressed. 
The flattened not hardening fruit-calyx with ample onfacial lobes 
distinguishes this plant from all forms of K. villosa. 
The two Australian species, published m 1810 by R. Brown, be- 
came inclusive of the present two augmented gradually particulariy m 
later years to 23, and the saltbush country of the far mterior may 
furnish still other additions also to this genus, which evidently attams 
in Australia its greatest numerical development. They are among the 
most important of our pastureplants, and should even be methodicaiiy 
redisseminated at the places of their native growth. 
Helicia Sayeriana. Almost glabrous; leaves large, on very 
short stalks, roundish-ovate, firmly chartaceous , much pal er and not 
shining beneath, remotely denticulated, costate-nerved, subtle-vemed; 
racemes elongated; bracts minute, narrow, acute; pedicels very short, 
semiconnate in pairs; petals very narrow, except at the dilated sum- 
mit anthers oblong-linear, conspicuously apiculated; style capiliary; 
stigma short, clavate-ellipsoid ; hypogynous scales roundish, somewhat 
connate; ovary glabrous. 
On the Russell-River; W. Sayer. , A n 
Leaves scattered, so far as known attammg a length ot 9 and a 
breadth of 6 inches, dark-green above, somewhat acute at the base; 
the lateral nerves rather distant, anastomosing towards thei mar gm ol 
the leaf; meshes of primary veins ample. Racemes spike-like, some- 
times fully a foot long, lateral, short-stalked. Rachis glabrous. 1 e j- 
cels slightly silky, i/io—i/s inch long during flowermg time. Petals 
measurmg about 3 4 inch in length. Anthers almost sessile ; connective 
broad. Style hardly longer than the petals. Ovary rather slender. 
This species differs from the Nortli-Western H. Australasica in 
larger and proportionately much broader leaves with more dissimi- 
larity of colour of the two pages, in longer racemes with considerably 
larger üowers, in longer pedicels and in the not silky ovary; the truits 
of the two may prove also different. 
Elachanthera. Sepals and petals nearly equal, narrow-oblong, 
almost nerveless, persistent. Stamens six, equal, free; filaments linear, 
membranous; anthers minute, roundish-ovate, bl 
longitudinally. Pollen-grains oblique-ovate, smooth. Style lax thm, 
undivided. Stigma very minute. Ovary three-celled. Berry succulent. 
Seeds usually solitary in each cell, mostly globular; strophiole none ; 
testa crustaceous, black; albumen almost horny; embry jd^ ituate in 
the lower half of the albumen, ellipsoid cylindrical, straight. Aciimbe 
of Western subtropical Australia, glabrous m all its parts; ^aves 
alternate, chartaceous, oblong or ovate-lanceolar, nearly sessile, subtie 
manynerved; flower-stalklets short, bractrate at the base, articulate 
near the turgescent summit; flowers small, pale ; berries, somewhat red. 
This new genus differs from Enargea m really twming habit, per¬ 
sistent sepals and petals, form of anthers, not pale f. or 
testa and perhaps inflorescence ;-from Calcoa m the disposition of the 
flowers, not several-nerved sepals and petals, broader and longer hla- 
ments, very short anthers and small not clavate embiyo. 
Elachanthera Sewelliae. In the vicinity ofNickol-Bay; sent 
bv Miss Julia Sewell. A climber, called by the local abongmes 
“Gnarboola” or “Narba”. Branchlets very thm, prommently angular, 
somewhat flexuose. Leaves (on tim only fragmentary specimen ob- 
tained) 1 - 11/2 inches long, 1 / 3 - 2/3 mch broad, shining and equally 
o-reen on both sides, roundish-blunt at the base, acute at the summi . 
Stalklets capiliary, about ^ inch long beset at the base with broadish 
short membranous bracts. Sepals an petals hardly V» mch long, quite 
glabrous, pale at least in age, tender-membranous, thickened at the 
median line. Filaments flaccid, pointed upwards Anthers ^ooth 
fixed near the base dorsally, pale-yellowish, widely bursting. Style 
