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West of Lake Amadeus. (Incorrectly recorded as H. fasciculatum .) 
Precisely tlie same plant near Charlotte-Waters (C. Giles), Yule and 
Fortescue Rivers (J. Forrest). 
The enlarged flowers, which measure across the summit fully a quarter 
of an inch, seem to indicate a dimorphismus. The genuine H. ßlaginoides , 
which was gathered by Winnecke near the Mulligan River, diflfers from 
our plant in thicker root, silky lanuginous vestiture, corolla much beset 
with hairlets, and perhaps also in always uniform flowers. Sliould future 
researches from ampler material require the Separation of the plant here 
recorded, then the variety name could become specific. In some species 
of Heliotropium (for instance 11. ventricosum ) the base of the fruitlets gets 
finally so much drawn upwards at the inner side as to render the point 
of affixion midway-lateral. 
Eragrostis trichophylla Bentham. 
Bentham (in the „Flora Austral.“ VII. 643) identifies an Eragrostis 
from Queensland with the Poci imbecilla of New Zealand. It is, however, 
a rather rigid plant, and a genuine Eragrostis , while the real P. imbecilla , 
of Förster (but not of R. Brown, who merely re-employed the name 
for a grass, now referred to Eleusine Chinensis), comes nearer to Poa caespi- 
tosa , some forms of which are quite as low, thin, and weak as P. imbecilla , 
but the empty bracts of the latter are smaller, and the flower-supporting* 
bracts less streaked. 
With Buchanan’s excellent illustration („Indigenous Grasses of New 
Zealand.“ pl. liii.) accord well some specimens from Co len so in our 
collection, except that the five venules of the flower-supporting bracts are 
shown as more prominent, therefore precisely Poa-like. 
Leschenaultia striata F. v. M. 
Calyx-tube extending to fully oue inch. Corolla inside below its lobes 
beset with straight-spreading irregularly seriated white hairlets; the two 
upper lobes linear, acute; the tliree lower lobes extending considerably 
beyond the upper, expanding broadly on each side into a bluish venular- 
striolated iinperfectly crisp-ciliolated and somewliat crenulated membrane. 
the three lined axis of the lobes shorter than the expansions.J 
Mneller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Notes on a rare pandauaceous plant. (From 
the Victorian Naturalist. 1890. December.) 
[Pandanus Jlombronia. 
Jlombronia cdulis ; Gaudichaud, Voyage botanique, planche ‘2*2, 
fiff. 17. 
Near Cape Caution, at the northern end of IIolnicote-Bay; Sir William 
M ’ G r e g o r. 
According to a communication received by Mr. F. M. Bailey during 
bis Excellency's recent stay at Brisbane, this species attains a height of 
about thirty feet; the stem-diameter may reach lOinches; aerial roots are 
ieveloped. The material, available for examination, consists of two leaves, 
sliowing a length of about five feet and towards the middle a breadth of 
about six inches; the texture seems less rigid than usual in species of 
this geuus, but the leaves are old; their spinular denticles are mostly 
erect, at the keel distant and not occurring along its lower portion. The 
fruits are numerous and according to a note from Mr. Bailey globularly 
crowded together. I find them to accord fully with the delineation, quoted 
above, and published quite forty years ago, Walpers in bis Annales. T. 
755, having referred to this atlas already in 1849. The plant of the 
Bonite-Expedition was obtained on the Mariannes, a group which with 
the Carolines possesses many lit.oral plants common also to the shore- 
region of northern New Guinea. By almost universal accord since many 
years the genus Jlombronia has been placed as a meie section under 
Pandanus , and this is borne out also by Bentham and J. Hook er's 
great authority. Bail Ion, in the 21 st fascicle of his Dictionaire de 
Botanique, mentions this genus of Gaudichand simply as belonging to 
Pandanus. Count Solms-Laubach, 1878, in the Linnaea p. 48, quotes 
llombronia edulis as perhaps belonging to Pandanus dnbius (Sprengel,. 
