p c d i i s r a i l c T e n T f ' » ™ - »“ - » » - « “ »» »» »1- ^
L L T the2 nrar d i f T ’, “ »“ f t™ » , " ¡ ‘ft »»# RUons hah-s. P eM s narrow, spa- ■
thulatc the hnear claw longer than the Innb. Nectary above the middle o f the peW, larve deeply excavated with
somewhat euxved styles, and them faces covered with smaU shaip warts, each often terminated by a h a i - I L b
G d T l ^ r L l T " " " “ft“ " “>»» ‘f t - 1 1 “ 2 ^ 0
m2 b f / L L wa4 ; 7 2 « " ' ■'“ “"ft‘- ‘ft“ »ft ®1 »'™
f l o w e i o n r r ■’»■ft»'»“/ — »ft ft »‘ffl ■>»“ “ ■ ‘fte European plant, and I And sessile and pcEcened
l ib u s 2 ' 8 J»‘ - ft pilosu s, caulibus perplurimis gracil.
b „ s decuuabeuttbus prostratrsve folrosts, foliis lou g e petiolatis palmatim v. pinuatim 3 - 5 -se etis v. biter^atim
sectts, segm en tis p e tiolatis v a n e m lobulos lineares inc isis, floribus axiUaribus pedicellatis, receptáculo gla-
-cu lo , carpeUis u t m S . s em i,flo ro sed magis püoso v. v i l lo s o .- _ O a P ro d r . i. 3 5 . E . lepfoeaulis H o o i
B o t. J o um . I . 2 4 4 , Comp. B o t. M a g . i. 2 7 3 . [Gunn, 2 3 0 ? )
/ c . p l 2 ; f - 6 2 “ % : : 2 3 0 . r P » - » n a t i s v e . - E . pilulifer, HooL
N o v W a u l ’’™ ' ! ! ' ° ' ft» ft»»ft' (H -
D i s t e i b . Var. /S. Swan Eiver.
De OandoUe's description seems to have been drawn np from very small, or probably seed lin . specimens with
some o f w lueh my small slates perfectly agree. I suspect that it is not spedfleaUy distinct from R e e s s i l i f o r j . Mr
Gm m d so h a, no doubt of their being forms o f cue another, and I offlyheep th c 2 distinct heeanse I dL o e r e c t
mtermedtate pecrmens. In su e each varies from an inch to a foot; A. c c iU f lo r « is normaUy sessfle-flowered
but ooe^ronaUy p e t e l l e d . has normaEy glabrous, bnt oeeasiondly hairy carpels, and has gencrafly Z Z t
receptacle; R Pum.lo, has normaDy pedieelled, bat occasionaEy sessüe flowers, usually vinous but sometimes
glabrous carpels, and a glabrous receptacle, with a few marginal hairs. In the ordinary c L s e of L en ts it m l b
a s s i e d that an abundanee o f intermediate forms wül be fonnd. The petals o f R Pumilio are smaUer but the
nectary is the same, aud deformed petals o f both are very common. The Swan Eiver variety is intermediate in
havmg almost glabrous carpcE, nsuaUy sessüe, but often pedieelled flowers, and much divided leaves.
N a t . O e d . II. MAGNOLIACEÆ.
Gen. I . T A SM A N N IA , B r . in 1)C. S y st. i. 4 4 6 ,
» e r l a t f ' l l L i - m l S l l : P - m a , extrorsa. 1 ; p p n f. 2 -
A t « . 2 -5 , deciduous. mauy, hypogynous ■
do h T Z 2 ft'' f t " ' ’ “"ft»» ft” »»"»»■ - ™ l „ g
th e T v l k " " “/ “ ‘ft » »ft. » , 7 - ''■’■“ ft — ohftcent. Seeds many, p en d u lo n s.-T h e only Tasmanian speeies I
L ù d L '™ ft“ftft"‘ft*““ ft »ft ftft' “ »'“» y ’ — »ft B '» ” — »‘ =<1 f»t touring the name o f the discoverer o f the
End. congeners are one or two Anstralian speeies ; bnt the New Zealand, Cbüian, and Bornean genns Drimys
th 2 “ ’ 7 f I ft ’ft ’■‘" » ’ft »»'"’— »»• ‘ft» »»“ »■ Eft»»» ” 0 U“ southern representatives of
o f North America, China, India, and the Malay Islands, and, like them, have more or less aromatic
bark. This is especially the case with the Chilian Drimys Winteri, which yields the Winter’s bark o f om Pharma-
copona,— a medicine which might probably be safely replaced by the bark of Tasmania.
1. T a sm a n n ia a r o m a t i c a (Br. 1. c ., Prodr. i. 7 8 ; D c le ss, Ic . i. t. 8 4 ) .— IVinterana laiiceolata, P o ir .
D ie t. viii. 7 6 9 . (Gunn, 7 7 7 .)
H a b . Abundant m many parts o f the Island, descending to the lev el o f the sea at Circular Head and
Georgetown, and asc ending to 4 0 0 0 feet on the m ountains; it prefers a rich soü, Brow n, etc. “ Pepper-
tree,” Col.— (M. Oct. N o v .) (v. v.)
A smaU hush or tree, from 3 inches high on the moimtains to 12 feet in more favourable situations often
gregarious, closely resembling Telopia trnncata in appearance (G u n n ) .-T r ,n k sometimes 9 inches in diameter-
branches often three together, or obscmely whorled. Bark red in young branches. Leaves i - 3 inches long vera
conaeeous, shortly petloled, lanceolate, effiptieal-ovate, or huear-ohovate, or obovate-oblong, extremely variable
textme, shape, and appearance, alternate or whorled, erect and appressed, or spreading, blunt, quite entii-e; nerve,
parallel to the midrib i alpine specimens have obovate leaves, glaucous below. Stipules none. Mowers mconspicuou.
m smaU terminal corymbs, sheathed when in bud in bard coriaceous scales, pedieeüed; p e ik e ls slender, 1 i.ieh’
long; / o » « globose, greenish, i inch in diameter. P ruit ot one carpel. Hack when ripe, rather fleshy, abo’nt a,
large as the flower. Seels about 6- 8 , obliquely obovate, or kidney-shaped, compressed ; te ,la black, brittle, shiniim
smooth; eudopleara coarsely reticulated and i-ugose, with a thickened, partiaüy tree raphe; aUamm eyhndriea°
cni-ved, ot loose angular grains. Bmbiyo veiy minute indeed, globular or very hioacüj elavate, notched.
The wood o t this plant presents a beanlifnl microscopic object, each individual fibre, or rather tube, being
marked with a series o t orbicular discs, each of which has an inner concentrie circle. In this pecidiaiily Ta.smannia
closely resembles many Coniferæ.
N a t . O e d . III. MONDIIACEvE.
This is a small and very cnrious group, o f which there are two weü-marked Suborders (considered by
many as Orders) ; all are natives o f tbe Southern Hemisphere, aud the genera are chiefly insnlai-, one only
(Citrosma) having many continental American species. O f the Suborder Monimiece, there is one Australian
and N ew Zealand g en u s (R ed y ea rya ) n o t hitherto found in Tasmania. T he smaller Suborder A tU ro sp e r -
meæ is much more hm ited ; it contains three genera, which m igh t be advantageously un ited under A tie ro -
sp e rm a : one of th e se is a N ew South Wales species, B o ryp k o ra S a s sa fra s ; another, a South-eastern
Australian and Tasmanian one, Atherosperuui moschata ; and th e third has representatives both in Chili and
N ew Zealand (L a u re ila ). The afiinilies o f Mon im ia e ea are with Magmliac eas and Anonaeece, through
M y r is tie eoe ; for th ou gh they resemble Lanriueee in their anthers d eh isc in g by valves, they are n o t o tliL -
wise neatly related to that Order. A ll the Atherospei-mere are fragrant.
Gen. I. ATIIEEOSPEiaiA, L a i.
More s dioici. P e r ia n th ii tu b iis hemisphæricus, limbns 6 - 8 -fldus. S tam in a 6 - 2 0 , periaiitliii tubo
inserta, squamidis alternaiitibus totidem v. im llis ; filamentis basi nudis v . biglandulosis ; a u th cris valvis
ascendeiitibus dehisceiftibus. Ovaria 5 - 2 0 , u n iloculatia; om lo 1, erecto. S ty lu s lateralis v. su b lc tiiii-
nahs, dcmiim plumosns, stigmate simplici undo. Achenia periantldi tubo hemisphierico v. urceolato inclusa
Semen ere c tuin; testa membranacea, albumine carnoso. Bndiryo basilatis, radicula brevi h ü o versa, coty-
ledonibus divaricatis.— Arbores Australasicoe, Tasmanicoe, Nova-Zelaiidicæ e t Chileuses, aromaücoe. ’ Folia
apposita, serrata, ex sü p n la ta . Iiifloresceiitia a x illa r is , cymosa, v. Ilotes s o U a r ii.— V x v o n a , B u is . Dorv-
phora, Bncll. Laureila, Juss. Thiga, Molina.