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Pedicellus 1-2" longus, raro obliteratus et tunc bracteole calyci 
appresse.  Bracteole opposite v. passim una supra alteram sita, 
inflexe, 3-1" longs. Calyces 1-2" longi. Petala alba v. rosea, 
calyeis lobis fere triplo longiora, 1—2" metientia, subtilissime 
eiliolari-dentieulata, brevissime unguieulata. Stamina sepalina 
raro absentia. Antherarum loeuli subovati, pene paralleli. Stylus 
1-1" longus, capillaris, stigmate minuto. Germinis vertex con- 
vexus, loculi 3-4 gemmulati. Capsula superne fissuris tribus 
loculicidis hians. Semina circiter $" longa, opaca, densissime 
punctato-asperulata, haud angulata. Strophiola perminuta, livida, 
orbiculari-ovata. ^Cotyledones perminute, plano-convexz, semi- 
oblongz, i" breviores  Radicula maxima, obcelavata, in apicem 
tenuissimum arcte sigmoideo-complicatum v. convolutum attenuata. 
B. schollerzfolia (Lehm. Plant. Preiss. ii. 369) differt a simili 
B. diffusa pedunculis obliteratis, bracteolis angustioribus, pedicellis 
longioribus, staminibus alternatim magis inzqualibus petalinis in- 
signiter latis, antherarum forma et situ. llz»c quoad staminum 
indolem efficit transitum ad B. fumanam (Rinziam fumanam, 
Schauer in Linnza, xvii, 239), quam non nisi subgeneris valore a 
genuinis Bzckeis separarem. 
Beckea Behrii. 
Harmogia propinqua, Schauer, in Walp. Repert. ii. 921; Camphoromyrtus 
Veg. .  Behrii, Schlechtend. Linnzga, xx. 652. Y 
Elata, folis teretiusculis apice recurvo mucronulatis supra 
unisuleatis, pedunculis 1- raro 2—3-floris calycem brevissime v. 
passim conspicue pedicellatum longitudine subzquantibus v. sepius 
excedentibus, bracteolis caducissimis subulato-linearibus uncinu- 
latis, ealycis tubo obconico-turbinato basi attenuato, petalis lobos 
calycis trienti-orbiculares pluries superantibus, staminibus 8—15, 
filamentis anthera paulo et duplo longioribus subcelavatis, antheris 
rima areuata dehiscentibus, stylo brevissimo v. psne obliterato, 
germine triloculato, loculis plurigemmulatis, capsule valvis apice 
exsertis, seminibus angulatis. : 
In virgultis collium arenosorum ad fluvia Lachlan, Murrum- 
bidgee, Darling, Murray et Wimmera, tunc in vicinia sinuum 
St. Vincent's et Spencer's Gulf, ad extremitatem occidentalem 
litoris Great Australian Bight extendens. 
Frutex sspe strictus, spectabilis, altitudinem 10' attinens. Folia 
brevissime petiolata, 2-5" longa, 1-3" erassa, raro ad brevitatem 
1" reducta, plerumque parum patentia et subtus indistincte unisul- 
cata, mucrone reverso pertenui brevi v. brevissimo fere hamata, 
raro mutica. Pedunculi 1-3" longi, raro linea breviores, si biflori 
calyx alter utplurimum subsessilis, alter evidenter pedicellatus. 
Pedicelli ad 1" longitudinem passim extensi, sepe brevissimi. 
Calyces ob limbum brevissimum vix ultra l" longi. Petala alba, 
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