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quote unhesitatingly C. Soulattri under C. spectabile, it seems but just, to 
restore the earliest name. The short description given on this occasion 
is solely from Australian specimens. In India the fruit seems to assume 
occasionally an oval shape. The Bintangor silvestris , taken up by Rumphins 
from M. B. Valentini, cannot be readily identified with our species, as 
the leaves are figured at reduced size and more pointed, the pedicels 
shown shorter, and the flowers are not delineated. Thus C. acuminatum 
remains also yet obscure, and could only be re-established by searches in 
Amboina. C. Inophyllum , aceording to specimens from the great Kew 
establishment, was found already, 1802, by R. Brown on the Northumber- 
land Islands, where I saw it in 1855, as well as on Lord Howick’s group. 
Furthermore, Cunningham early recorded it in the appendix to Kings 
Voyages. Besides from these localities and those mentioned in the Fragm. 
Phytogr. Austr. IX. 175, w'e also known this useful plant now as Australian 
from Goode Island (Po well), Endeavour River (Persieh) and Russell 
River (Sayer). 
Corchorus capsularis. 
Lin ne, Spec. plant. 529 (1753). 
Truly indigenous in the vicinity of Port Darwin, aceording to Mr. 
Holtze, who finds it there to attain a height of 6 feet. In as much as 
also C. olitorius was found spontaneously growing on Van Diemen’s Gulf; 
furthermore as C. tridens, C. fascicularis, C. acutangulus were already 
seen by me far inland in Arnheim’s Land, long before any settlements 
there were found, while C. trilocularis has been brought as wild under 
notice from several localities of eastern intra-tropical Australia, it seems 
safe, to admit also C. capsularis now as an indigenous Australian species, 
although it is one of the principal Asiatic Jute-plants. Seeds occur some- 
times also in the accessorv cells of the fruit. 
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Sterculia Holtzei. 
Tall; branchlets thick, glabrous; leaves chiefly terminal, on slender 
petioles, simple, chartaceous, nearly ovate, occassionally with a shallow 
basal sinus, of an almost equal light green and nearly glabrous on both 
sides, entire; racemes mostly crowded towards the summit of the branchlets, 
partly compound; flowers small, their pedicels about half as long or shorter; 
calyx ellipsoid-urceolar, outside dull yellowish-green and except on the 
summit glabrous, inside bearing extensively a thin but dense pale some- 
what papillular indument, the lobes spreading, of about one-fourth the 
length of the tube, semi-lanceolar, inside beset with short spreading hairlets; 
staminal column glabrous, shorter than the globular-ovate mass of antliers 
or nearly as long; stigmas revolute, considerably shorter than the style; 
ovularies grey from a close starry vestiture; ovules 3-4, rarely 2. 
Tree, 30 to 40 feet high. Bast pale, very tough. Leaves probably 
annual, 3 — 4 inches long, 1 1 is to 2 inches broad, so far as seen; their 
secondary venules faint Petioles about one inch long. Stipules small, 
tomentellous, from semilanceolar to deltoid, fugacious. Racemes measuring 
2 to 3 inches in length, their peduncles and pedicels glabrous. Calyx 
about */ 3 inch long. Stamens at the base of the muturating pistils rather 
copious. Ovularies very obliquely ovate. Fruit not yet obtained. 
This species is easily distinguisbed from S. Edelfelti in leaves much 
broader towards the base and blunter at the apex, in less turgid some- 
what longer calyces with lobes less broad, also less invested and not 
cohering during anthesis, while the fruits are likelv also different. 
Goodenia Pumillo. 
R. Brown, Prodr. fl. Nov. Holl. 579. 
Of this puny but remarkable plant Mr. Holtze has recently sent well 
developed specimens, from which the characteristics could now be more 
fully studied. The leaves attain occasionally the length of one inch. The 
fruiting calyx may gain a length of nearly */4 inch, as the upper lobe 
becomes finally somewhat enlarged like in Euthales. The corolla is dark- 
purplish, outside beset with short hairlets; its lobes are almost unilateral, 
nearly equal, semi-lanceolar, and have no lateral expansions; thus the 
