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sessilia, in basin cuneatam contracta, ima basi obtusata, penninervia, 
insigniter reticulari-venosa.  Panicule subracemoss, multiflorz, 
pluripollieares, indumento tenui cano-fulvescente subvelutinz. 
Bracteole lineari-subulatz, lineam circiter longs. Pedunculi 
secundarii breves. Pedicelli flore szpius breviores. Sepala 5, 
subovata, paulo inzqualia, zstivatione imbricata, vix 3" longa. 
. Petala decidua, cuneato-obovata, obtusa v. subretusa, circiter 4" 
longa, exsiccatione nigrescentia. Filamenta inzquilonga, glabra, 
1-23" longa. Antherz 1" longs, ovatz, minutim apiculatze, flavz, 
introrsum dehiscentes, intra rimulam brevem dorsalem filamento 
juncte.  Pollinis granula globosa. Discus annularis, inzequaliter 
crenulatus, puberulus. Stylus indivisus, diu persistens, crasso- 
subulatus, 2-3" longus, superne bifariam stigmatosus et state 
tortus, inferne velutinellus. Germen compressum, sessile, in sty- 
lum sensim desinens. Ovula ope funieuli brevis mox incrassati in 
apice loculi angulo centrali superposite affixa. Capsula globoso- 
reniformis, turgida, coriacea, bilocularis, loculicide dehiscens, 
unciam lata. Semina pisi majoris magnitudine, arillo flavescente 
tenui-carnoso circum hilum crispato ét inerassato inclusa, alterum 
horizontale, alterum pendulum. Testa nitens, tenui-coriacea. Em- 
bryo exalbuminosus. Cotyledones pene semiglobosz, incumbentes. 
Radieula przbrevis, hila approximata. 
.. Convenit eum Harpulia imbricata (Thw. Enum. of Ceylon Plants, 
i. 56 ; Streptostigma viridiflorum, Thw. in Kew Miscell. vi. 298) 
numero seminum, qua nota ab ambabus speciebus Australasicis 
recedit. H. pendulam invenit ad flumen Clarence Herm. Beckler, 
ad sinum Wide Bay Car. Moore, ad sinum Broad Sound A. Thozet ; 
hze arbor altitudinem 80—100' attinet. Truncus longitudinaliter 
intrusionibus percursus est. Lignum pallidum. —Medulla saturate 
fusca. Cortex cinereus, partim secedens, superficie inzqualis. 
Petala subito breviterque unguieulata, exsiccatione flavescentia, 
intus parce pubescentia. Filamenta capillaria, exserta. Capsula 
intus passim puberula. Stylus elongatus. Semina nigra, arillo 
minuto orbiculari scutellata. 
Harpulia Hilli ad flumen Clarence River precedentibus conso- 
ciata arborem altiorem sistit, corticem canum satis lz;vem et quo- 
dammodo maculatum ostendit. Flores eos H. alat; valde simulant. 
LrcGuuiNOs E. 
Daviesia obtusifolia, 
Glabra, ramulis angulatis, foliis oblongis obtusis muticis opacis 
horizontalibus indistincte uninerviis obsoletissime venosis in brevem 
petiolum angustatis, corymbis brevissime pedunculatis paucifloris, 
bracteolis spathulato-orbicularibus, pedicellis ealyce parum duplove 
longioribus, ealycis ecostati labio supero truncato emarginato, infero 
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