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sorum passim per Australiam extratropicam occurrens; e. g. ad 
flumen Cygnorum (Preiss), ad pagum Lyndock valley prope sinum 
St. Vincenti, ad flumen Murray, in traetu Tatiara country, ad 
montem Abrupt tractus Grampians, ad sinum Port Phillip alibique. 
Herbula pinguis, cireum stagna exarescentia interdum gregaria, 
nune virens, nunc erubescens, erecta et unicaulis, vel diffusa vel 
adsceendens et pauci- v. pluricaulis. Radix fibrillas tenues agens. 
Caules simplices v. patentim ramosi angulati, modo uncia breviores, 
modo paueipollieares, foliati. Folia 11-5" longa, subclavata, supra 
planiuseula, obtusa, decidua. Pedicelli pro planta erassi, parum 
saltem nunquam valde patentes, 1-13" longi angulosi apice ampliati. 
Bracteola decidua membranea, circiter 1" longa, satis angusta sen- 
sim acutata pedicello opposita. Sepala in modum foliorum carnosa, 
quibus similia, florigera circiter sesquilinearia, fructigera non raro 
aeerescentia et interdum plane 4" longa, basi truncata. Petala 
albida v. rosea denique ealyptre instar cohszrentia, tarde decidua. 
. Filamenta albida. Antherz aut rubicundze, aut luteolz, longitudinis 
ratione lats. Stigmata puberula. Capsula state denudata, 1-13" 
longa, vertice fere pyramidata, ut apparet nunquam infra apicem 
dehiscens, ex olivaceo nigrita, duriuscula. Semina pene 1" longa. 
Specimina austro-occidentalia non habui, sed descriptio Neesiana - 
ad amussim congruit. 
Calandrinia quadrivalvis. 
Annua, glaberrima, caulibus erectis v. adscendentibus subsim- 
plieibus, foliis radicalibus imisque caulinis lanceolato- v. ovato- . 
oblongis vel lato-linearibus confertis, superioribus dissitis minoribus 
nune minutis, racemis laxis terminalibus simplicibus v. divisis, - 
pedicellis elongatis patentibus, sepalis subrotundis v. orbiculari- 
ovatis acuminatis capsulam parvam quadrivalvatam subglobosam 
fere equantibus, petalis sex roseis ovato-cuneatis obtusis, stamini- 
bus numerosis, stylo nullo, stigmatibus quatuor filiformibus, semi- 
nibus numerosis minutis reniformi-ovatis turgidis nitenti-fuscis 
striolato-foveolatis. 
In locis arenosis subinde inundatis ad montes Macadam Range 
et secus flumen Victoris. TEES 
Herba szpe multicaulis pedalis v. humilior. Caules tenues. 
Folia radicalia in petiolum angustata, 1-2" longa, 2-6" lata, caulina 
minora nunc diminuta et tunc in braeteolas conversa. Racemi 
ante florescentiam recurvi. Bracteola altera pedicello opposita 
1-13" longa acuminata tenera in basin amplexantem sensim dilata ; 
altera, sí adest, perminuta pedicellum suffulciens. Pedicelli zetate 
. 2-1l' longi erecto-patentes, minus frequenter divarieati, nunquam 
'efraeti. Sepala circiter 13" longa. Petala staminibus conspicue 
longiora state conglutinata. Antherz 1" longs flavme. Stigmata 
violacea. "Valve capsule rigidule. Columella tetrasticha e basi. 
funienlosa. Semina tantum 1" metientia. 
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