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ME. H. N. BIDLEY ON THE 





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Cebatosawthes bttpicola 



graciles striati, cirrhi 

 ciliatis, lobi profunde 





liberi, exteriorea obliqui ovati angulati integri minute mucronati, 

 2 uncias longi, 1 unciam lati, petiolis f-uncialibus. Pedunculi 

 6-unciales, glabri, racemi breves l|-unciales. PI ores raasculi . . . 

 albescentes, 1| unciam longi pedicellis inclusis ; sepala 5 ovata 

 brevia submucronata crassiuscula, extus pubescentia; petala 

 basi oblonga, laciniis longis angustis obtusis, |-uncialia, extus 



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Stamina tubo adnata. 





Antherse breves crassi, g unciam longse. Flores f eminei et fructus 













non visi. 



This plant only occurred scrambling over the basalt rocks of 



the East hills. 



trifoliolata, Cogn 



its less deeply cut leaves and entire leaflets. 







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ficoide^:. 







Sestjvittm distylum, n. sp. 



Herba prostrata lsete virens, earnosa, ramis 6-12-uncialibus. 































Folia cuneata spathulata obtusa, exstipulata, basi scariosa vagi- 

 nante, unciam longa, \ unciam lata. Flores albi sin guli breviter 



pedicellati, \ unciam in diametro. 



Perianthium basi connatum, 



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tubo brevi, segmenta tria exteriora lanceolata acuta, submucro- 

 nata apice cucullata, interiora duo latiora ovata mucronata. 

 Stamina plura quam perianthium breviora, filamenta complanata 

 tenuia; antherae ovoidese. Ovarium breve conicum obtusum, 

























apice depresso. Styli duo graciles quam perianthium multo 

 breviores. Semina plura nigra reniformia. 



Eat Island, growing only within the spray of the blowhole at 

 the south-west corner ; abundant there, but seen nowhere else. 









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The soil at this spot is reef -rock covered with guano in parts. 

 The plant grows in the holes formed by the weathering of the 

 rock, and makes bright green patches visible for some distance. 













The species is very near S. portulacastrum, L. ; but I believe 







it to be quite distinct in the colour of the flowers, which are not 



even tinted with pink or purple, and in the number of styles, 



never less than three in S. portulacastrum ; but in this species 



there are but two, and these much shorter than in the latter 

 plant. 



























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