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florihus romotiiisciilis, petllcellatis; pedicelUs 1-3 lin. longis, patentissimis, 

 hispidis, basl apiceqiie bracteatis; bractea basilari solitaria, ut vitletar 

 decidiia, minima, pedicello mnlto minore, anguste linear!, utrinque attenuata, 

 facie glabra, dorso stellulis paucis conspersa; bractea hypocalycina per- 

 sistente, dimidiam calycem snbsuperante, tripartita, sub anthesl plenimf|ue 

 reflexa; laciniis linearibas, utrinque pilis stellatis dcnsissime vestitis, (stellu- 

 lis faciei multo minoribus, moHioribus, dorsi majoribus, rigidioribus, atro- 

 purpureis,) intermedia lateralibus paullo longiore. Calyx campanulatus, ut 

 ex sicco videtiir rosens, diametro 4-lineari, reticulato-venosus, demuiu mem- 

 branaceo-scariosus ; segmentis^y ovatis, acutis, utrinque pilis stellatis moUi- U 

 bus conspersis, et insuper dorso, in nervo carina!!, stellulis rigidis, atropur- 

 pnreis basi medio tenus munitis, et facie in eodem nervo, pilis inoUibus, 

 simplicibus vestitis. Petala 5, minutissima, longitudine lineae quadrantis, 

 glaberrima, alro-purpurea, cuneata, apice truncata. Filamenia D, basi vis 

 atque ne vix quidem connata, atro-purpurea, longitudine seinilineae anlbera- 

 rura basin exceJentia, omnia fertiiia. Antherae oblongo-tetragonae, atro- 

 purpureae vel glanco-pruinosae, supra medium insertae, biloculares, basi 

 loculis approximatis emarginatae et longiuscule liberae, dorso sulco lon§i- 

 tudinali exaratae, et utrinque rima laterali sero dehiscentes. Ovarium ses- 

 sile, ovalo-spbaeroideum, mucronatum, staminibus multo brevius, dense 

 glanduloso-veliitinum, glandulis in apice pilorum atro-piirpureis, clavaeforrai- 

 bus, 3-4-snlcatnm, 3- sive 4-loculare; loculh pleruinque 4-ovulatis. Stylus 



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laher, cylindricus, gracilis, mucronulo veUitino ovarii insidens, IV4 1'"* 

 longus, aTitberas paullisper supereminens, stigmate aequali, truncato termi- 

 natus. Capsulani non vidi. 



06.9. Vidi in unico speciniine ovaria tria 1-Iocularia, promiscue emu 

 S-locularibus, quare, banc abnormitatem non raro occurrere, suspicor. 



8. Tlioma^ia g^randlflora Lindley. 



Th. foliis piitlolatis cordatis ovatis, petalis nullis, filamentis 

 anthera qimdruplo brevioribns, ovario glanduloso-velutinoj stylo 

 basi toinentoso supra medium glabro stamina siiperante. 



Thomasia graudiflora Liiidleyl Swau-lliver Cot. in App- 

 ad Bot. re^. p. XVIIL No. 84. 



Thomasia cycnopotamka Steudcll in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. 

 T. 1. p. 231. No. 4. 



Thomasia lucida Steudel! in Lebm. I. c. p. 231. No. 5. 



Ilab, iQ Novae Holbndiae ora australi-occidentali, in Swan River Colonia, i^d 

 flumcn Vasse-Rlver, Brummonai Collect. I, No. 375! et 384! Collect. 2. No. ^^^ 

 In solo limoso-arenoso inter frutices planitiei prope \illain cl. Yule, ad fl"n»«." 

 Cygr.orara, d. 15. Octobr. ISPA Preiss! (Herb. Preiss. No. IfiGT!) et in arenos^s 

 distr. York, ci. 22. Mart, 18j9. (PIcrb, Preiss. No. 1045'j v, s 



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ima basi 

 vel vers 



more specierum praecedentium plicata, ideoqne nervo medio supra 

 impresso, subtus valde prominente, adulta snbcoriaceii, glaberrirna, fere »*^ 

 tentja, novella margine et utrinque, praeserlim in nervo medio, stellulis r^" 

 motis, mox deciduis conspersa, caeternm varia forma et magnitiidine; ^'** 

 pollicaria et imo majora, t^- 1 lin. la(a, Semlpollicaria latiUidine 4."> linearum* 



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