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Waage, Th., Ueber haubenlose Wurzeln der Hippocastanaceen und Sapindaceeu. 
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2 Tafeln.) 
Wallace, Rüssel A., Le Darwinisme. Expose de la theorie de la selection 
naturelle, avec quelqnes-uries de ses applications. Traduction fran^aise, avec 
fig., par Henry de Varigny. 8°. XX, 674 pp. Paris (Lecrosnier et Babe) 
1891.) 
Systematik und Pflanzengeographie: 
Mueller, Baron Ton, Ferdin. Descriptions of new Australian plants, with 
occasional other annotations. [Continued.] (Extra print from the Victorian 
Naturalist. 1891. June.) 
Eugenia Fitzgeraldi. F. v. M. and Bailey. 
Leaves on short petioles, firmly chartaceous, mostly ovatelanceolar 
and bluntly acuminate, much paler green beneath, their oil dots extremely 
minute and much concealed; cyme comparative shorts, the peduncles 
very slender; flowers rather large, glabrous; inner lobes of the calyx 
more than half as long as the petals, all finally deciduous ; stamens con- 
spicuously exserted, their anthers narrow-ellipsoid; stigma minute; fruit 
relatively large, globular, its pericarp rather thin, bright-red outside; seed 
large, solitary, its cotyledons equal, hemispheric. 
On the Richmond-River. 
Leaves generally 3—4 inches long, sometimes slightly undular at the 
margin, the primary venules rather distant, the oil-dots almost invisible. 
Cyme in most cases hardly extending beyond the two nearest leaves. 
Pedicels quite short. Inner calyx-lobes largely membranous. Petals 
whitisch, l i 4—V 3 inch long, almost transparent. Style very thin. Fruit 
of about one inch measurement. 
This Australian very characteristic species was known to me through 
a long series of years from several collections, but only from incomplete 
material. Early this year I was enabled through the special exertions 
of Mr. R. Fitzgerald to study it closely, and Mr. F. M. Bailey quite 
recently obtained the same plant in the Southern part of Queensland. It 
is particularly remarkable for producing frequently a deep-red panicle of 
innumerable minute bracts, which are either empty or enclose undeve- 
loping buds. It differs from E. rubens already in less crowded flowers 
of larger size on not particularly angular stalks and stalklets, also in 
larger fruit; from E. oblata in petals disunited from the commencement 
and in less depressed fruits. 
One other plant might on this occasion be mentioned as new for 
Eastern Australia, namely Dichrocephala latifolia , lately gathered by 
Mr. Stephen Johnson on mauntains near the Mulgrave-River. 
Dammara Palmerstoni. 
F. v. M., „Fourth Suppl, to the Syst. Census of Austral. Plants 44 
4 (1889), A gatliis Palmerstoni , F. v. M. collect. 
Finally very tall; branchlets angular; leaves comparatively small y 
narrow-elliptic, but gradually norrowed into the very short petiole, blunt, 
somewhat oblique, slightly or hardly paler beneath; staminal spikes ellip- 
soid-cylindric, solitary; strobiles egg-shaped, their racheoles extremely 
numerous, broader than long, narrowly thickened at the summit. 
Mount Bartle-Frere, Christie Palmerston; Mulgrave-River, Stephen 
Johnson. 
Mr. Johnson calls this the largest and noblest jungle tree, ascending 
from the river to high mountain-altitudes. So far as can be judged from 
the material before me, this northern Kauri Pine of Queensland is 
specifically distinct from the Southern, which occurs on the mainland 
near Wide Bay and on Fraser’s Island, but may also exist in North 
Queensland. The leaves are never lanceolar, much smaller and parti¬ 
cularly narrower, also always obtuse, as compared to those of trees of 
the typical D. robusta, cultivated liere and now fully 40 feet high. 
Nevertheless the specimen branchlets may all have been taken from very 
tall trees, and the leaves may thus become reduced in size and perliaps 
altered in form. The seeding strobile seems also considerably smaller and 
