930 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JouRNAL. [1 Sxpr., 1897. 
Order ACANTHACEA, 
ASYSTASIA, Blume. 
Calyx deeply divided into 5 narrow segments. Corolla-tube short or lon 
funnel-shaped, ventricose or narrow; lobes 5, subequal, imbricate in the bud. 
Stamens 4, all perfect, didynamus, subequal ; anthers oblong, cells parallel, 
approximate, base minutely spurred or submuticus, the points only obscurely 
whitened. Ovary 4-ovulate, very hairy; stigma minutely bifid or subcapitate, 
Capsule elliptic, 4-seeded, base contracted, solid. Seeds compressed, orbicular 
or irregularly angular, rugose or tubercular, glabrous. Herbs or undershrubs, 
with entire leaves, Spikes or racemes lax or dense, simple or compound, 
J-sided or suberect; bracts and bracteoles linear, usually shorter than the 
calyx; flowers opposite or alternate, usually solitary, blue, purple, rose, or 
yellow. ‘The species of this genus are met with in Tropical Asia and South 
Africa, but not to my knowledge in Australia until I met with the species, here 
described, on Thursday Island, : 
A. australasica, Bail. (n. sp.) A rather straggling plant about 18 ing 
high, slightly branched, stems somewhat erect. Leaves membranous, 4 op 
5 in. long, 23} in. broad, with a long abruptly acuminate point, rounded 
and slightly decurrent on the petiole which is slender and often nearly 
2; in. long. Flowers lateral, distant, pale-bluish, in terminal racemes of 9 or 
3 in., pedicels about 3 lines; calyx-tube short, lobes very narrow, about 3 
lines long. Corolla-tube 3-in., expanding upwards, lobes rather short and 
rounded. Stamens +4, in pairs, not exserted, style about the length of the 
‘stamens. Capsule seedless in the lower half, the apex rostrate, seeds 4 in the 
centre of capsule, prominently tuberculose on each face, the margins sinuate, 
2 lines diameter. 
Hab. : Thursday Island, Torres Strait. Under tree in the gullies between the hills, This 
Australian species somewhat resembles A, coromandcliana, Nees. 
Order NEPENTHACES. 
NEPENTHES, Linn. 
WN. Jardinei, Bail. (n. sp.) (After Frank L. Jardine.) Stems several, 
rather stout, arising from a hard knotty rhizome, 2 to 8 or more felt 
high; not climbing, sometimes branched, clothed with leaves mostly bearing 
pitchers; the young growth more or less clothed. ‘with soft hairs, the shorter 
ones of which are usually stellate, the longer ones frequently simple. Leaves 
decurrent and slightly stem-clasping ;_petiole 2 in. long winged ; lamina 8 in. 
long and from 2 to nearly 3 in. broad in the middle, tapering towards each 
end; midrib at first purplish-red, longitudinal neryes on each side of midrib 
usually 6; the narrow portion or stalk of pitcher about 6 in., without the loop 
of WV. Kennedyi, F. vy. M.; pitcher 5 to 7 in. long, 1¢ in. diameter near the top, 
enlarging in the lower half to about 23 in, with numerous prominent longi- 
tudinal nerves and reticulations ; anterior ribs with narrow red wings; orifice 
wide and arising towards the spur; peristome narrow, about 1 line broad, with 
numerous transverse veins; posterior spur recuryed; operculum elliptical, 
about 2 in. long, with numerous yarious-sized circular glands on the inner 
surface; inside of pitcher more or less spotted or stained purplish-red. 
Racemes dense, 4 to 8 in. long in the males, but shorter in the female racemes; 
_ male perianth of 4 oval segments, about 3 lines long, reflexed upon the pedicel, 
united and forming a cup at the base; staminal column about the length of the 
perianth-segments, head of anthers 1 line diameter. Female perianth like the 
male, stigma sessile. Capsule coriaceous, #-in. long, 4-valved, each valve. 
-crowned by a lobe of the stigma, (See plate representing one of the pitchers.) 
Hab.: Somerset, Cape York Peninsula, Frank L. Jardine, th 
