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than the calyx, dark-red, broadly tubulär, terminated by five very short 
almost deltoid lobes; stamens ten, enclosed; filaments glabrous, hardly 
half as long as the anthers, flat, semi-connate in pairs and with their 
dilated lower portion adherent to the base of the corolla; anthers 
erect, free, fixed above their base, fully half as long as the corolla, 
cylindric-linear, without any appendages, their lower portion subtle- 
rough and at the blunt base somewhat bent forward, their upper 
portion paler, smooth, bifid, each division pointed and opening with a 
longitudinal fissure; style filiform, glabrous; stigma minute, undivided; 
ovary exceeded by the limb of the calyx, depressed and glabrous at 
the summit; fruit almost campanulate in outline, rather hard, five-celled; 
placentas turgid; seeds rhomboid-or clavate-ovate, pale-brownish, shining, 
reticulated. 
On the summit of Mount Bellenden-Ker; Sayer and Davidson. 
This first and perhaps only Australian species bears some resemblance 
to A. Vitiensis; but the leaves are usually broader and more prominently 
veined, the corolla is less dilated towards the upper end and its lobes 
are considerably smaller, while the anthers are less curved at the. base 
and open with longer slits. Our new plant shows also some affinity to 
the Himalaian A. setigera, but recedes from this as well as most other 
congeners already in the lobeless calyx; as regards this particular 
characteristic the Australian plant approaches A. Forbesii, but that 
Papuan species is essentially different in its nearly semi-globular calyx, 
longer-lobed corolla, stamens of quite other shape and fruits broader 
than long. The genus Pentapterygium is only sectionally separable 
from Agapetes and indeed Vaccinium. Our lovely and exceedingly 
local species (now brought under notice) of a genus of plants, scarcely 
distinct from that, which comprises the British Bilberry, the Whortleberry 
and the Cranberry-plants (Vaccinium), has been named in honour of 
Dr. G. A. Mein, who professionally has evinced through many years 
a keen interest in the writer’s researches. 
Didymocarpus Kinnearii. Stemless; leaves lanceolar or cordate- 
ovate, almost membranous, conspicuously serrated, above conspersed 
with septate hair, beneath as well as the long petioles more silky- 
hairy; peduncles reaching generally to the height of the leaves, as 
well as the many-flowered cyme spreadingly soft-hairy; flowers small, 
on elongated almost capillary often umbellate pedicels; bracts narrow; 
calyx about half as long as the corolla, its segments broad-linear, 
narrowed upwards; corolla white glabrous, its upper lobes deeply 
divided, the middle one of the lower lobes somewhat longer than the 
others; tube comparatively ample, not quite as long as the lobes; 
stamens two, as well as the style and ovary glabrous; fruit hardly 
three times as long as the calyx, about twice as long as the style, 
narrow ellipsoid-cylindrical, attenuated towards the summit, not stipitate ; 
placentas amply intruding; seeds almost spindle-shaped. 
At and near the summit of Mount Bellenden-Ker; Sayer and 
Davidson. 
This species is in some respects allied to D. cordatus, but the vestiture 
is whitish, the leaves are all radical and long-stalked, the calyces very 
hairy, the corolla is smaller and the fruit much shorter. Our plant 
has the general aspect of D. macrophyllus. In the shortness of the 
corolla-tube D. Kinnearii comes near to Baea, and recedes from most 
of its congeners;—thus an additioDal instance is given for demonstra- 
ting the inlenability of the genus Streptocarpus, it forming a section 
in Baea, like Jankaea in Ramondia. As indicated by Mr. Bentham 
the generic name Didymocarpus should undoubtedly be changed to 
Roettlera, as well established by Vahl 82 years ago in commemoration 
of the Danish missionary Roettler. 
I have connected with this very neat and rare plant the name ot 
Rob. Kinnear, Esqr., a strenuous promoter of horticulture at our 
metropolis.] 
