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Capsula circiter 1" longa et lata, valvis apice bifidis; Semina 
opaca, viridi-fusca, lzvia, circiter 1" longa. 
Ab H. Burmanniana precipue defectu peduneulorum digno- 
scitur, sed nihilominus ejus forsan varietatibus adscribenda, Con- 
venit etiam multis notis H. Heynei. 
Hedyotis scleranthoides. 
(Sect. Oldenlandia.) 
Annua, procumbens v. adscendens, pumila, glabra, foliis brevi- 
bus compresso-subulatis mucronulatis, membrana stipulari utrin- 
que in lacinias 2—5 lanceolato-subulatas producta, fforibus axil- 
laribus solitariis brevissime pedunculatis, calycis laciniis subulatis - 
mucronulatis tubo paulo brevioribus, corolla-minuta subrotata 
profunde quadri-partita calyce superata, capsula subglobosa, 
parum compressa e calycis tubo fere semiexserta ejus laciniis 
superata loculicide dehiscente. 
In locis arenosis passim prolutis rivorum ad originem fluminis 
Vietorim. F. M. 
Herba patentim ramosa, sesqui-usque pauci-pollicaris. Rami 
leniter angulati, rufescentes. Folia sessilia, utroque latere con- 
vexiuseula, 3-G" longa, i-3" lata, nitidula, patentia. Flores 
plerique subsessiles, oppositi, folio altero florali szpissime abbre- 
viato v. diminuto geminati, in apice ramulorum satis conferti. 
Calyees glabri, 1-13" longi; tubus semiglobosus, leviter com- 
pressus. Corolla albida v. purpurascens; segmentis lanceolato- 
ovatis, antice ciliatis, circiter j" longis, stamina paulo exceden- 
tibus. Filamenta antheris longiora.  Antherz ovatze, ex atro- 
cyaneo purpurascentes, Pollen ochroleucum. Capsula rubicunda, 
valvis demum bifidis. Semina subovata, nitentia, fusca, subtilis- 
sime foveolata, 1-3" longa. 
Hedyotis tilleacea. 
(Sect. Oldenlandia.) 
Humilis, ramosissima, glabra v. hispidulo-scabra, foliis linearibus 
v. oblongo-linearibus breviusculis subobtusis planis v. margine 
recurvis, stipulis integris v. laciniatis, pedicellis capillaribus axil- 
laribus solitariis v. geminis calyce paulo v. duplo longioribus, calycis 
laciniis distantibus tubo semigloboso subzquilongis v. primum longi- 
oribus, corolla profunde quadripartita perbrevi, capsulis globosis 
saltem semiexsertis loculicide dehiscentibus polyspermis, seminibus 
minutis. 
In eampis sabuloso-argillaceis ad flumina Dawson et Mackenzie 
River; F. M. Ad Dooroodoo inter flumen Darling et montes 
Barrier Range; Dr. Beckler. Ad rivos Wills's Creek et Cooper's 
Creek locis subinde inundatis; Dr. Murray. . 
