Dr. Mueller refers this to T. calva, Schuckhardt, Syn. Tretn., aud considers my T. Gunnii to be a variety of
the same, in which Archer agrees.
(Page 42.) Scleranthus fascicularis, Hook. fil.
MueUer reduces this to a variety of S. biforus.
(Page 51.) Lasiopetalum mieranthum. Hook. fil. This I take to be the Uhjnchostemon, Tasmanicus,
MueD. MSS., fouud at Swaiiport by Stuart. At Hue 4 from bottom, for acute read minute,
(Page 53.) Hypericum gramineum, Porst.
MueUer states that this flows into H. Japonicum, Th.
(Page 54.) Eucrypbia Milligani, Hook, ill., forms a tree 40 feet high, on Mount Lapeyrouse, retaining
all its cbaracters. (Mueller does not consider it a good species, and Archer is doubtful about it.)
(Page 57.) GQtaxivimpotentilloides, L ’Hdrit.
MueUer reduces this to a variety of G. dissecium, L., and both he and Oldfield consider its var. 0 parvifora
to be a distinct species. Mcher refers both to varieties of G. dissectuM.
Geranium Irevicaule, Hook.
MueUer considers tliis quite distinct from G. potentilloides, and says that it inhabits loftier situations.
(Page 58.) Pelargonium Acugnaticum, Pet. Th.
MueUer aud Archer confirm my suspicion of this being referable to P. australe, Willd.
(Page 59.) Rcepera, A. Juss., should be reduced to Zygophjllum (Mueller).
(Page 64.) 4. Phebalium Daviesii (Hook, fil.); frutes erectus, lepidotus; ramis virgatis, foliis angustissimis
e basi ad apicem sensim dilatatis apice bifidis mai-gine recurvis supra glabris medio profunde sulcatis
subtus argenteo-lepidotis, floribus terminalibus umbellatis, pedicellis breviusculis floribusque argenteo et
ferrugineo lepidotis.
H a b . East coast, near St. Helen’s Bay, R. N. Davies, Esq. (Herb. Archer.)
A very distinct and pretty species, easily recognized by the slender, twiggy habit, very narrow leaves dilated
upwards to the bUobed apex, sUvery lepidote scales of their under surface, recurved margins, and terminal umbels
of flowers. It is closely aUied to P. glandulosum, Hook. (P. sediforum, MueU.), but wants the great tuberculate
glands of the upper surface of the leaves. It is also near P. eleagnifolium, Juss., but the foliage is much smaller,
narrower, and not tomentose below.—Branches very slender, terete, covered with ferruginous scales. Leaves
scattered, 1 inch long, ^ line wide at the tip, glabrous and smooth above, white, with lepidote scales below, where
are also occasionally a few scattered ferruginous scales. Flowers 6-8 in an umbel, all terraiual. Pedicels stout,
4 inch long. Flower hemispherical, 3 lines diam. Calgx short, obscurely lobed. Petals oblong, subacute, white,
with large feiTuginous glands on the back towards the apex. Filaments slender, exserted. Anthers oblong, with
a smaU apiculus. Oy«?y glabrous, o-lobed. slender.
Phebalium? truncatum. Hook. fil.
The flowers are occasionally pentamerous, as represented in the Plate. Archer has given me beautiful specimens
in flower and fruit, from Mount Gog. I suspect that Mueller’s Erioslemon serrulatum (Fragment. Phyt. iv.),
of which I have seen a bad specimen only, is the same as this.
Eriostemon verrucosum has been found in Victoria by Mueller.
Eriostemon virgatum, A. C., is E. Oldfieldii, Mueller.
(Page 6 6 .) Archer considers that Boronia oitriodora, Gunn, and B. Gunnii, Hook, ill., may possibly
prove varieties of B . pilosa, Lab.
(Page 6 8 .) Mueller considers that his Boronia dentigera, Trans. Vicfc, Instit. 1855, p. 32, mentioned
under B. variabilis, is a very distinct species, having rough seeds.
(Page 69.) Discaria australis occurs in one spot only on Brown’s River, south of Hobartou, the
most southerly habitat 1 am acquainted witb {Oldfield).
(Page 76.) Pomaderris discolor. Vent., is regarded by Archer as a variety of P . elliptica, Lab.
(Page 79.) Stackliousia.
In the generic character, line 2, for longioribus read brevioribus; and in the English description of the genus,
at p. 80, line 1, for longer read shorter.
Wheu I drew up the characters of the speeies of this genus, I had not seen the elaborate monograph of
Schuckhardt, published in the Linnæa, 1853, the results of w'hich are so different from mine that I have again
attempted to settle the limits of the species of this puzzling genus.
1. Stackhousia monogyna, Lab., and S. obtusa, Lindl.
S. monogyna, according to Labillardiere, should have one bract and two minute deciduous lateral ones, and his
figure accords w'ell with Lindley’s t. 1916 in most respects. Lindley further describes the bracts as very short,
shorter than the calyx, and membranaceous, but figm-es those of the lower flowers as longer than the calyx. The
S. obtusa he distinguishes by having the bracts longer than the calyx, and the spike shorter, and cylindrical. None
of these characters are constant in Gunn’s specimens ; and in my own, gathered near tlobarton, I find the bract
varying from shorter than the calyx to half as long as the corolla. Schuckhardt gives no distinguishing characters,
but describes the corolla of S. monogyna as flavesceut (which Lindley figures white), and of S. obtusa as veDow
(tided). Archer considers them the same, and Gimn also observes that he fouud connecting specimens between
S. obtusa and tnoiiogyna. The lateral bracts ai'e evanescent in most of the Tasmanian specimens.
2. Stackhousia Gunnii, Hook, fil., is considered by Archer to be a variety of S. monogyna, and no
doubt rightly so.
3. Stackhousia maculata, Sieb. 246.
Schuckhardt remarks that no such species exists in the Herbarium Rudolphianum, where all Sieher’s plants are
without exception to be found. Sieber’s plant is, however (probably eiToneously), named 5. maculata in the Hookerian
Herbarium, Fl. Nov. Holl., n. 246, and it is no doubt -S', spathulata, Sieb., of Rudolph. Herb. (Schuckhardt,
p. 20), S. marítima, Muell. MSS., -S, cuneata, A. Cimn., Tripterococcus spathulatus, Jlueller. This appears to be a
maritime species.
4. Stackhousia fa v a . Hook. fil.
5. Stackhousia (Mueller, Eragm. P hyt.); parvula, intricatimramosa; foliis lineari-oblongis
spathulatisvc obtusis, floribus solitariis ramulos terminantibus, stylo brevissimo profunde 3-4-fido.
H a b . Western Mountains, in moist places. Archer.
D is t r ib . Australian Mps, Mueller.
A very singular little species, scarcely 2 inches liigh, very different in habit and appearance from any of its
congeners. Mueller obseives that it foi-ms a caipet on the summits of the Australian Alps, speckled with fragrant,
starry fiowers.—Stems much branched, slender, tufted and intenvoven together. Leaves i inch long, glabrous,
rather fleshy, linear-spathulatc or oblong, bright-green.. Flowers solitary, terminal, scarcely rising above the leaves,
yellow. Stamens nearly equal in Archer’s specimens, two shorter than the others iu Jlueller’s. Anthers glabrous.
Style very short, cleft almost to the base.
Stackhousia Gunnii, Schlecht. in Linnæa, xx. 642, founded on Linclley’s figures of S. monogyna,
appears to have no characters at all. Schuckhardt quotes it (altering the name to Gunniana), but does