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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Additions. 
Hedycarya Pseudomorus— p . 23. 
Under this name H. Cunninghami, lately received from extratropical and subtropical Eastern Australia, 
seems combinable with H. racemosa. Carpels drupaceous, when fresh sometimes 2 lines long. Putamen 
finally almost black. Integument of the seed very thin, membranous, pallid, smooth. Embryo hardly half a 
line long, as well as the albumen whitish 5 the former considerably shorter than the latter. Cotyledons broad- 
ovate. Radicle obconic-cylindrical, about as long as the cotyledons. 
Atherosperma jioschatum — p . 24. 
Branchlets almost silky • leaves thick-coriaceous , imperfectly sharp-serrate, rarely entire, lanceolate or 
ovate, rather blunt at the base, acute at the apex, covered beneath with a glaucous exceedingly short indu- 
ment; peduncles onc-flomered; bracteoles at the apex of the peduncles large, ovate, outside velvet-downy, 
inside silky; flowers large, declinous; calyx outside silky, eight-cleft ; the female calyx with cup-shaded 
tube; staminodia lanceolate- or linear-subulate, silky ) fruit-calyx truncate, almost cup-shaped, valveless, 
indeliiscent. 
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Atherosperma micranthum (Tulasne, in Archives du Mus. d’Hist. Natur. p. 421, t. 34), which occurs in 
the forests from the Hastings River to Moreton Bay, has an obverse clavate-cylindrical outside glabrous 
fruit-calyx, which bursts with a longitudinal fissure, being besides imperfectly divided into a few valves and 
measuring' about § inch in length. The inner walls of the calyx as w r ell as the style are covered with long 
soft hair of grey-brown color. The apex of the style is white-silky; the limb of the fruit-calyx is short, 
almost glabrous, long persistent and membranous. Prom the above notes it will be evident that this plant 
should be placed into the subgenus Laurelia of Atherosperma. 
The bark of A. moschatum lias lately been subjected to a careful chemical analysis by Dr. Wittstein of 
Munich. For remarks on the Atherospermin, the essential oil and the other substances of the bark and their 
medicinal value, refer to Dr. Wittstein’s memoir, and to the report of the jurors of the Victorian Exhibition 
of 1862. A pharmacological description of the bark is recently offered by Dr. 0. Berg. 
STEPHANIA. 
Loureiro , Flor. Cocliinchin. 747. 
Flowers dioecious. Male: Sepals free, 6 - 10 , biseriate. Petals 3-5, minute, fleshy. Connective 
disk-like, raised on the staminal column } girded by 6-8 horizontal one-celled anthers. Female: 
Sepals free , 3-5. Petals as many, fleshy. Stigmas 3-6, subulate, unequal, finally by inversion 
basilar. Carpel solitary , drupaceous. Putamen tuberculate and turgid at the back, impressed at 
the sides, without vacous cells. Seed horseshoe-formed. Albumen scanty, homogenous. Cotyledons 
apposite. Radicle inferior. 
Scandent shrubs, indigenous to the tropical and subtropical regions of chiefly the eastern hemi¬ 
sphere, seldom far extratropical Leaves generally peltate. Umbellules paniculate or umhelkte. 
Flowers minute.— Endl. Gen. 827 ; J. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Indie, i. 195 ; Clypea, Blume Bijdragen 
tot de FL vans Nederl. Indie , 26. 
Stephania hernandifolia, Walp. Report. Bot. Syst. i. 96 ; J. Hook . § Thoms. FI Indie, i. 195; 
S. discolor, Walp . L c.; Hassk. PI. Javan. Manor. 168 ; S. Abyssinica, Walp. I. c.; A. Rich. Flor. Abyss, 
t. iv. fide J. Hook .; S. ve'nosa, Walp. 1. c. ; S. glaucescens, Walp. 1. c. ; S. Australis, Miers, in Annul, and 
Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1851; S. Forsteri, Asa Gray , in Wdk. Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped . Bot. i. 36; S. Gau- 
