pdf 25 MB - BSBI Archive

192 REPORT OF THE VICTORIAN, GOVERNMENT BOTANIST.
work devoted to original discoveries, and written in a language common
to science of all nations,. is almost completed. The fourth volume
of tlie universal work on the plants of Ausfralia is, through my
aid, under the rare advantages attainable in the great national institu-
tion of Kew, just completed by the President of the Linnean Society,
and comprises the Orders of CoroUiflora. Extensive preliminary re-
searches have been carried on already for the fifth, sixth, and seventh
volumes ; to which, finally, a supplement is to be added. To promote,
by further field researches, the objects of this large work, on which all
subsequent medical, technological, and rural observations in reference
to the native Australian vegetation must rest, I visited, during the
past s})ring, one of the most important tracts of West Australia.
Finally, also, the great task yet remains to be performed of tracing out
more completely the relation of geology to the distribution of the plants
existing as well as passed away,— a line of researches for which excel-
lent geographical and geological maps are annually affording more fa-
cilities. Mr. Dallachy continues sedulously to collect, both for the
Garden and the Phytographic J\Iuseum, in the north-east part of
Queensland.
The following are the genera which, since the issue of my last Ee-
port, by local independent researches, have been added to the system
of Australian plants :
—
Dillenin, Cak'de, Aldrovanda, Gompliandra,
Connarus, Slromjylodon, Salacia, Caryospei'immi, Casearia, Cticurbita,
(Enunthe, Autlrrhwa, Laislanthus, Ophiorrhiza, GeopJdla, Aniseia, Ery-
cibe, Icluiocarpus, Ceropegia, Bassia, ChrysopJiylluin, Thunbergia, Grap-
tophylluHi, Dlschisvia, Cylicodaphne, Chinamouimn , Plecospernium, Taxo-
iropliu, Hyrtarinndra, Nepentlws, Apostasia, Clrropdalum, Pogorda,
Spaihoglottis, DraccBtia, Bambum, Centotheca, Angiopteris, Marnttia,
Beparia, hoetes ; and the following genera new to phytography :
FUzgeraldia, Pagelia, Bavidsonia, Thesjnd'mm, Eleutheranlhes, Thozetia,
Curnaivonia, Barlingia, Helmholtzia, Coryiwtheca ; by which means re-
presentatives of Comiarece, Saviydeoi, Sdaginece, NepentliecE, and Apoda-
siacea arc added to the Australian flora. The following are additions to
the list of Australian trees published in the volume of the Intercolonial
Exhibition :
—
Melodoricni Maccraei, Pittosporum rubiginosum, P. venu-
les urn, Eriostemon squameus, Sterculia lauri/oUa, Sloanea WooUsii, S.
Macbridei, Gomphandra Australlana, Leucocarpon celadroides, Taxitro-
phis rectinervis, Flcus Benjamiuea, Croton triacros, Beyera vlscosrt,
—