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ruit. (Conf. Report on the Indigenous Vegetable Substances of 
the Victorian Exhibition, 1861.) 
Osbornia octodonta. 
In insulis sinus Trinity Bay. D. Henne. 
Frutex altior. Rami teretes, cortice cano obducti. Ramuli 
glabri. Folia pleraque 1-13" longa, oblonga v. obovata, in basin 
cuneatam contracta, apice obtusa v. emarginata, plana, concoloria, 
tenuiter penninervia, poris pellucentibus oleo graveolente scaten- 
tibus punetulata, margine integerrima v. lenissime crenulata, 
petiolo distincto orbata.  DBracteole geminz, calycem juvenilem 
maxima ex parte includentes, ante anthesin cadentes, sesquilineam 
eireiter longs, cymbiformi-semilanceolate, extus cano-sericez. 
Calycis florentis tubus tenui-obconicus, circiter 2" longus; limbus 
in dentes fere semiellipticos subzquales szstivatione imbricatos 
state conniventes circiter lineam metientes divisus. Stamina cito 
secedentia, lineam vix excedentia. Filamenta pallida, glabra. 
Anthere flavs, minute, glandula terminatz. Stylus denique 2^ 
longus, inferne tenui-pubescens, superne glaber. Vertex capsule 
cum ealyce connatze demum ruptus. Semen pisi magnitudine, a 
latere leviter compressum. Radicula 1" fere longa, omnino infera. 
HALORAGEJE., 
Haloragis hexandra. 
(Sect. Pterogynus.) 
Perennis, diffusa, glabra, foliis obovato- v. cuneato-lanceolatis 
v. superioribus lineari lanceolatis, inferioribus oppositis, ceteris 
alternis, omnibus integerrimis, floralibus minoribus v. diminutis, 
pedicellis solitariis v. geminis calyci demum subzquilongis v. 
longioribus, foribus tripetalis hexandris, stigmatibus barbatis, 
fructibus parvis urceolato-ovatis subtrigonis leniter costatis. 
In loeis uliginosis ad sinum Wilson's Inlet Nove Hollandiz 
austro-occidentalis. Oldfield. 
Herba swpius spithamza. Folia paulo carnulenta, exceptis 
summis floralibus 1-1"longa. Flores sub anthesi nutantes. Calycis 
lobi tres, perminuti, deltoidei. Petala glabra, anguste eymbiformia, 
vix 1" longa. Filamenta brevissima. — Antherz glabre, circiter 
$"longzs. Stigmata brevia. Fructus longius breviusve pedicel- 
lati (pedicello passim przlongo), saltem statu juniore nec evidenter 
asperati, nec exsculpti, nec constrieti. 
H. nodulose videtur proxima; ab hae velut a ceteris congene- 
ribus jam numero partium floralium diversa. 
