Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
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Fitzroy's River, dum quatuor plantan hujus onlinis ad Shark-Bay<br />
provenire dicuntur.<br />
Melothria Cunninghami ad Promontorium Cape York et siiium<br />
Rockingham's Bay invenitur.<br />
Melothria Baueriana (Zehneria Baueriana, Endl. Prodr. Fl.<br />
Ins. Norfolk. 69; Iconogr. 116 et 117) optime plantis Australian<br />
adnumeranda est, simul cum aliis illius insulan. Conditio enim<br />
suas vegetationis magis ad earn Australian quam ad eas Nova?<br />
Zealaudian et Novae Caledonian approximat. Pertinet etiam insula<br />
nunc ad territorium politicum Novan Cambrian. Zehneria autem a<br />
Melothria angre separanda, nisi forsan antheris in altero genere<br />
omnibus biloculatis, in altero anthera unica trium dimidiata.<br />
Alsomitra Hooked (Alsomitran species Australiana, Benth. et<br />
Hook. Gen. Plant, i. 840 ; Melothria trifoliólata, F. M. Fragm. v.<br />
181) fructum producit cylindrico-ellipsoideum, truncatum, 1-1 h"<br />
longum, vix semipollicem latum, sparse pilosulum, siccum, cavum,<br />
fuscescentem, pedicello paucilineari pranditum. Pericarpium fere<br />
chartaceum, intus lanve et glabrum. Semina nigro-fusca, panne<br />
lineas tres longa, obovato-cuneata, basi acuta, faciebus plana aream<br />
leniter prominentem pranbentia, margine supra medium sinulato-<br />
tuberculata, vértice in alam tenerem membraneam pallidam oblique<br />
terminalem semiellipticam fere 3'" longam producta. Collector<br />
fructum a monte <strong>Mueller</strong>i seorsim misit ; vix dubie ad plantain<br />
floreutem me promulgatam pertinet. Omnes Alsomitran forsan<br />
melius Zanoniis iterum jungendan.<br />
SAXIFRAGES.<br />
Callicoma Sturtzeri staminibus 9-10 gaudet.<br />
Weinmannia rubifolia ad flumen Bellingeri altitudinem 40'<br />
assumit.<br />
Weinmannia paniculosa altitudine 150' superbit ad Camden-<br />
Haven, McLeay-River, Bellinger-River, monente Carolo Moore.<br />
Folia interdum subtus tomeutella, ramuli insigniter tomentosi et<br />
folióla raro casu 9 evolvuntur. Eadem v. species persimilis e<br />
vicinia sinus Rockingham's Bay allata est.<br />
Weinmannia Benthami (F. M. Docum. Intercol. Exhib. p. 31 ;<br />
Geissois Benthami, F. M. Fr. Ph. Austr. v. 16) altitudine 150'<br />
grandescit ad Camden-Haven, Manning- et Bellinger-River, obser-<br />
vante Carolo Moore.<br />
Gillbeea adenopetala passim magnitudine 60' occurrit. Flores<br />
ex annotatione Dallachyi albi. Planta jam statu fruticante floret.<br />
Argophyllum Lejourdani ad Rockingham-Bay nuper detectum<br />
est.<br />
Anopterus MacLeayi (F. M. in Transact. Pharmac. Soc. Vict.<br />
1859, 43) in montibus austro-orientalibus terrae Gipps-Land cum<br />
aliis plantis Neo-Cambricis fortasse inveniendus est. Ad Mount<br />
Warning altitudinem 50' habet fide C. Moore.