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plates and anteriorely much protracted into a bilobed broad lamina; 
cymes considerably shorter than tbe leaves; general peduncle much 
abbreviated ; pedicels hardly as long as the calyx or somewhat shorter ; 
tube of the latter scarcely longer than the lobes ; corolla rather large, 
its tube slender and not much exceeding in length the cuneate-oval 
lobes, but several times longer than the ealyx; stamens not reaching 
to the summits of the corolla-lobes; ovary gradually attenuated into 
the style, comparatively slender. 
At the base of the Owen Stanley’s Ranges; H. 0. Forbes (744). 
The whole plant glabrous. Leaves inclusive of the petiolar base attai- 
ning a length of fully one foot and a breadth of six inches. Stipular 
portion about 2 /s inch broad and long: lateral nerves distant; veins 
and veinlets concealed. Cyme trichotomous. Calyx during anthesis 
not fully half an inch long, its lobes rounded-blunt. Corolla 2—2V 2 
inches long, the colour not recognisable in the dried state of the 
flowers, the tube not much widened upwards. Anthers about V 4 inch 
long. Style nearly as long as the corolla. Fruit yet unknown. 
This species agrees almost in size, form and basal dilatation of 
leaves with F. auriculata; but the stipular base is still more produced 
upwards, the texture of the leaves is considerably thinner, they are 
also still more decurrent into the leafstalk and are much stronger 
nerved; besides the flowers are far more numerous and of much less 
size, while the corolla is upwards proportionately less widened. From 
the imperfectly known F. fastigiata our new plant diflers already in 
the much more dilated stipular portion of the leaves and in less 
angular peduncles; the fruit will afford probably other means of 
distinguishing the two. Not dissimilar to F. Zeilanica of Blume, if the 
basal dilatation of the leaf-stalk is left out of considerationbut 
quite unlike Thunberg’s F. Zeilanica, as figured by Lamarck 
(illustr. des genres pl. 167), to which possibly Thwaites’ F. obovate 
may be referable, while the real plant of that name, as originally de- 
fined by W a 11 i c h, seems to accord with B 1 u m e ’s F. crassifolia, and 
approaches also Wight’s F. Malabarica, these three having the leaf- 
nerves concealed or only very faintly visible. The genuine F. Coro- 
mandelina, doubtfully included by Clarke in F. obovata, has the 
leaves (according to Wight’s delineation) very distinctly nerved, a 
characteristic of leading specific value in this genus. All these con- 
geners can perhaps be much better set out specifically, when opportu- 
nities arise for seeing the form and colour and for investigating the 
structure of the matured fruit in each instance, that of Blume’s F. 
Zeilanica being shown as thickly rostrate. To this plant, as regards 
size and form of fruits and also of leaves, respond specimens, sent from 
near the Astrolabe-Range by the Rev. James Chalmers; but the 
petioles of his plant are longer and the cyme is more ample. A 
Fagraea, collected by Dr. Guppy in the Solomon-Islands, has the fruit 
only minutely apiculate. 
I have bestowed on this very conspicuous plant the name of Harry 
Wood Esq., Under-Secretary of the Department of Mines and Forests 
in Sydney, who amidst the arduous duties of his responsible position 
still managed, to advance also the cause of geography as Chairman 
of the Exploration-Committee of the Australian Geographie Society, 
and thus promoted simultaneously the interests of the discoverer of 
this Fagraea. The flowers of all species of this genus as highly fra- 
grant serve for cosmetic purposes, while the bark of some is drawn 
into medicinal use.] 
Reiche, K., Die Flora von Leipzig. (Abhandlungen der naturwissenschaft¬ 
lichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden. 1886. H. p. 43.) Dresden 1887. 
Paläontologie: 
Hoernes, R., Manuel de paleontologie. Traduit de l’allemand par L. Dollo. 
8°. XVI, 741 pp. avec 672 fig. Paris (Savy) 1887. 20 fr. 
