89 
Genus Plociostigma, Schuch. 1. e. 39, monente celeb, Sonder in 
litteris, nil nisi statum nondum evolutum Stackhousiz pubescentis 
constituere videtur. Descriptio etiam cum icone voyage d'Astro-- 
labe t. 33 satis congruit, 
EvPHORBIACE X. 
Synostemon hirtellus. 
Ramis gracilibus teretiusculis, foliis hirtellis oblongo- v. lanceo- 
lato-cuneatis internodio subzquilongis alternis subsessilibus mar- 
gine leniter recurvis, stipulis minutis pallidis subdeltoideis acu- 
minatis, floribus masculis solitariis, pedicellis calyci pene zqui- 
longis v. eodem brevioribus, antheris muticis. 
In Australia orientali tropica prope Walloon. Edw. Bowman. 
Vidi tantum ramulum stirpis mascule. Folia circiter 3^ longa, 
1" lata. Calyces 2-21" longi, extus parce ef subtiliter hirtelli, 
intus glabri et flavidi; lobi tubo pluries breviores, rotundati, 
interiores exterioribus minores, swstivatione imbricati. Filamenta 
circiter 1" longa, glabra. JAntherz fere 1" longz, flavz, bilocu- 
lares, lineari-oblongs», acutiuscule, loculis basi paulo discretis. 
S. rigenti proximus. 
PonRrTULACEX. 
Claytonia Australasica. 
J. Hook. Icon. Plant. 293; Fl. Tasm. i. 144. 
Perennis, glabra, natans v. repens v. cespitosa, foliis semitereti- 
linearibus elongatis alternis basi membranea amplexantibus, pe- 
duneulis folio oppositis 1—2-floris v. racemum pauciflorum geren- 
tibus, pedicellis calyce aliquoties v. multoties longioribus basi 
bracteolam latam membraneam amplexantem persistentem geren- 
tibus, petalis albis obovatis sepala rotunda persistentia conspicue 
superantibus, staminibus quinque, stylo trifido, capsula globosa 
1-3-sperma irivalvi calyci subzquilonga pallida, funiculis e fundo 
capsulz» ortis, seminibus lxvibus nitentibus. 
In locis uliginosis v. fontanis v. paludosis v. ripariis per mag- 
nam Australi: extratropicz partem, in alpes ascendens. 
In idem genus retuli Calandriniam pygmeam et omnes alias 
Calandriniz et Talini species. 
Claytonia calyptrata. 
Calandrinia calyptrata, J. Hook. Icon. Plant. 296; Flor. Tasm. i. 143; Nees, 
in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. i 247 ; C. pusilla, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 
360. 
Annua, glabra, foliis suceulentes turgidis spatulato- v. lineari- 
oblongis rarius ovatis radicalibus confertis caulinis sparsis, racemis 
axillaribus et terminalibus, pedicellis flore longioribus divergen- 
