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Australi: passim ad altitudinem 4500' ascendens; frequens etiam 
in Tasmania. 
Frutex pulcher, pauci- v. pluripedalis, sepe amplus.  Petioli 
folio conspicue tenuiores, breves v. brevissimi. Folia 11—6" longa, 
i-$,raro aliquot ad 1" lata, sparsa, primum erecta et conferta, 
demum patentia, nonnulla passim applanata et in formam oblongam 
vergentia, saturate viridia, acutiusceula, glabra v. vario gradu 
hirtella. Bractea bracteolis ealycem amplexantibus varie brevior 
v. passim in folium mutata.  Bracteole prster costam dorsalem 
membranes, glabrze v. hirtellae v. nonnunquam pubescentes, acutae 
v. obtusm, sepe 2-3" longw, basi plus minus connatzm. Calycis 
tubus tenuissime striatus; limbi lobi subrotundi, interdum paulo 
obeordati v. rhombei, saturate rubri v. rufescentes v. spadicei, 23-1" 
metientes, subito v. breve nunquam longe in setam contracti; sete 
tenerrimz, szítate rectiusculzm, basin versus compresse et latiores. 
Petala 2-3" longa, membranea, decidua, latius angustiusve lanceo- 
lata, exsiccatione tardescente flavescentia. Filamenta alba, capil- 
laria, uniseriata, glabra, inzquilonga; ea ad centrum vergentia 
breviora. Antherz didymo-rotundz, dorsifix: ; loculis ellipsoideis, 
circiter 1" longis. Stylus petala subszquans, capillaris, glaber, plus 
minus rubellus. Stigma perminutum, capitatum. ^ Tubus calycis 
fructiferi 3—5" longus, apice incrassatus; pars inferior seminifer 
superiore crassior, basi acutata. 
E. diagnosibus, C. ciliata et C. euspidata (Turez. in Bullet. de 
Moscou, xx. 161) huc forsan pertinent. 
RuBIACEAX. 
Hedyotis mitrasacmoides. 
(Sect. Oldenlandia.) 
Annua, erecta, caule teretiusculo inferne hispidulo-scabro superne 
glabro, vagina stipulari integra v. dentibus deltoideis subulatisve 
prodita, foliis margine arcte revoluto compresso-filiformibus, 
floribus subpanieulatis, pedicellis tenui-filiformibus calyce multo- 
ties duplove longioribus, ealycis dentibus deltoideo-semilanceolatis 
tubo subzquilongis demum brevioribus, corolle tubo lobis paulo 
longiore fauce dense barbata, filamentis brevissimis, capsula sub- 
globosa parum compressa loculicide semibivalvi apice e calyce 
exserta et hinc retusula v. subtruneata. : 
In locis graminosis passim inundatis originem fluminis Victorize 
versus et cireum sinum Carpentariw. F.M. ; i 
Caulis simplex v. patentim ramosus, semi-usque sesqui-pedalis, 
Folia acuta, sessilia, pleraque inter 1 et 13" longa, linea angustiorá. 
Panieule terminales pluri- v. multiflor:, axillares pauciflorz. 
Braetez ad basin pedicellorum lineari-subulate, ciliolatz. Pedi- 
celii gemini, rarius solitarii v. terni, rarissime plures verticillati 
v. umbellati, unciales et breviores. Calycis dentes 4, tubo corollae 
