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flava, acuta. Capsula mmuta, Semina atra, vix |'" longa. Ratlix 



annua. 



Sisyrinchium Bennudiana tam in Australiam felicem quam in 

 Novam Austro-Cambriam permanenter immigratum est ; ita etiam 

 Triclionema cruciatum cum paucis aliis Irideis Austro-Africanis. 



Insula Lord Howe's Island plantam grandem alit Irideis adscri- 

 bendam, cujus folia radicalia tri- usque sex-pedaliaj laxa, elongato- 

 et angusto-ensiformia ; fasciculi spatliis involucrati, dicliotomo 

 paniculati; capsulic pedicello valido circiter bipoUicari prteditte, 

 1-1 ^" longoe, tri-valves. Flores et semina nondum habeo. Scapus 

 e nota Moorei 4-5' altus, jam prope basim ramosns. Rhizoma 

 procurrens, fibrillas ramosas emittens. 



Dwlarrkcna Mor<Ba rLabill. Relation i. 157 t. 15 : Lab. Nov. 



Holl 



Vahl Euum. ii* 154"^ a Dromontoriis Cape Howe et W 



Promontory sparse alpes adscendit, ia valiibus 4-5000' altis alpium 

 juxta flumen McAllister's River gregaria atque robustior. Calycis 

 segmenta 3 exteriora alba, ovato-cuneata, margine leviter Inflexa, 

 inferum pendulum, superiora horizontalia ; tria interiora duplo fere 

 breviora; horum superum oblongo-Ianceolatum, album, violaceo- 

 venosum et tinctum, apice adscendens ; inferiora apice leniter 

 dcflexa, superne flava, inferne venis purpurascentibus quasi pin- 

 nate divergentibus tincta. Semina fusca, orbicnlata, nitida, plana, 

 circiter 1^'" metientiaj margine obtusa. Albuminis cornei stratum 

 tenue. Testa membranea, altero latere ultra albumen cons^icue 

 producta, tali modo alam angustam pr^bens raphe percursam. 

 Embryo tenui-cylindricus, rectus, fere axilis, dimidio albumine 

 paulo longior. 



AUALIACE^. 



Porospermiim, 



Fiores polygarai. Calycis tubus obconlcus; limbus quinquefi- 

 dus ; lobi deltoideo- v. truncato-semiorbiculares v. semiovati, jam 

 ffistivatione disjuncti. Petala 5 obovata^ sessilia, intus carinata, 

 aBstlvatione late imbricata. Stamina quinque, petalis alterna, 

 aistivatione recta. Antherce fere sessiles^ introrsse, biloculares, 

 tetragono-oblong^e ; loculi antice contigui, longitudinaliter dehis- 

 centes ; connectivum crassiusculum, dorsale, ad dodrantem loculo- 

 rum extendens. Pollinls granula fere tetruhedra, Icevia, ad angulos 

 poro aperta, corpusculis innumeris minutissimis sphEericis farta. 

 Stijli duo liheri, subulato-cylindrici. Fructus ovati, biloculares, 

 dispemi, turgentes, apteri. Pericarpium tenue, carnulentum. 

 Semina ovata, conspicuo compressa, extus magis convexa, ope 

 dissepimenti pertenuis colia^rentia, Testa fere membranea. Al- 

 bunien ad extremitates et superjiciem foveolis copiosis corticatis 

 oleigeris porosum, intus a^quabile v. parce foveolatum, carnosum. 



