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ovato- lanceolatis diu persistentibus, braeteis parvis lanceolato- 
linearibus, calycibus ccruleseentibus ante expansionem valde 
angulato-plieatis, Jobis calycis acuminatis, petalis perminutis 
rhombeo-orbieularibus, antheris flavis, staminodiis 5 lineari- 
setaceis, carpidiis stellari- hirsutis et setulosis, seminibus haud 
curvatis. E 
Ad flumen Robertson's River, Armit; ad Gilbert's River, 
Daintree. i 
Folia 2-4" longa, 2-13" lata, subtus eano-virentia, nunquam 
pallidissima. | Stipulze 2-3" longze, haud membranez. Pedunculi 
l- usque pauci-flori. Calyces denique ad semipollieis diametrum 
expandentes, Antherz arcuato-hippocrepiez, óblongs, basi bilobse., 
Filamenta perbrevia, deorsum turgida. Styli iu unum ecoaliti, 
capillares, breves. Fructus calycem wquans. Semina atra, opaca, 
. 1" longa, minute strophiolata. 
Seringea nephrosperma, F. M. in Hook. Kew Misc. ix. 165, 
genuina tantum a fluviis Victoriae Hooker's et Sturt's Creek nota. 
Planta Stuartii ad sequentem speciem pertinet. 
Seringea integrifolia, F. M. Fragm. ii. 5, nune obtenta a 
Champion-Day (Guerin) Lake Deborah (Harper) Boxvale 
(Wells), Macdonnell's Range (Giles), Forster's Range (J. Maed. 
Stuart). Drumm. 61. 
Seringea lanceolata, Steetz L c., includere videtur plures plantas 
in Fl. Austr. 246 sub Keraudrenia Hookeriana inclusas, foliis 
magnitudine admodum variantibus, supra insigniter rugatis (ut 
Steetz jam dixit) ibique aut glabris aut stellari-pilosis eum v. 
absque glandulis, carpidiis interdum maximis calycem longe su- 
perantibus nonnunquam (in silvis ad Rockingham's Bay) mem- 
braneo-bialatis vel biangulatis fimbriatisque. Tali modo plante 
in campis ipsis ultra observandz nunc huc traete a : Nicholson's 
River (F. M.), Gainsford et Cape's River (Bowman), Toowoomba 
(Hartmann), Darling's Downs (Lau), Pine-River (F. M.), Robin- 
son's Range (Leichhardt).—Keraudrenia Hillii in Nova Anglia 
occurrit (C. St.).  Setule aliquot in carpidiis sepe adsunt. 
Seringea platyphylla, J. Gay in Mem. du Mus. vii, 443, t. 16 
et 17, nune quoque a New England et Moreton's Bay nota. 
PORTULACEE. 
Portulaca Armitii. 
(Sect. Siphonopetalum.) 
Glabra, humilis, foliis oppositis cordato-orbiculatis perparvis, 
axillis imberbibus, floribus axillaribus et terminalibus exinvolu- 
eratis solitariis, calycis parte decidua inferne longe tubulosa 
partem persistentem longitudine pluries excedente, petalis pur- 
pureis calycem conspicue. excedentibus in tubum gracillimum 
