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apicem sitz, setacez, vix ultra l" longs.  Petioluli 1-13" longi. 
Capitula terminalia, sessilia v. breviter pedunculata. ^ Bractez 
4—5" longs, 2-33" late, imbricatim capitulum inferne cingentes, 
utrinque appresso-pubescentes. Calycis laciniz tubo bis ter qua- 
terve longiores, quocum sericeo-piloss, nonnunquam sexta aecessoria 
auctz», utplurimum haud valde inzquales, e latiore basi tenui- 
subulate, longiores 4" longs. Braeteole interjacentes nullm. 
Petala purpurea. — Alc carinam zquantes, vexillo superat; la- 
mina oblique ovata, 231" longa, apicem versus glandulis subulato- 
oblongis rufo-aurantiacis copiose conspersa ; unguis tenuissimus, 
cirea 2" longus, iis carinze conformis. Carina cum alis glabra. 
Vexilli lamina pene 4" longa, complicato-orbienlata v. ovato- 
orbieulaa, ad basim excisam hyalino-marginata ; unguis sesqui- 
linearis, eo ceterorum petalorum latior. Stamina ultra dodrantem 
connata, vexillari libero excepto. Antherz perexiles, orbiculari- 
cordatm, Stylus 3" longus, inferne pubescens et setaceus, superne 
crassior et glaber, apice apud stigma minutum barbatus. Germen 
unigemmulatum. Legumemsadhue ignotum. 
Juxta P. bituminosam et P. bracteatam trahenda, etsi permultis 
notis divergit. i 
. Plantam pulehram et sat singularem tribui preclare Elisabethze 
. Testar, dominarum consilio in fatum Leichhardtii inquirenti adso- 
ciatz, 
GENTIANE X, 
Villarsia exilifora. — 
(Sect. Limnanthemum.) 
Glabra, caulibus laxe erectis v. reptantibus breviusculis, foliis 
lato- v. rhombeo-ovatis passim cordatis parvis integerrimis pleris- 
- 
que radicalibus, paniculis terminalibus pluri- v. multifloris, corolía 
minuta lutea calycem quinquepartitum parum superante fauce 
fimbriata, antheris ellipsoideis basi sagittatis, capsula parva ovata 
decis calycem squante, seminibus minutim puberulis haud cari- 
natis. ; 
In aquis stagnantibus ad sinum marinum Rockingham's Bay. 
Dallachy. : 
Planta paueipollicaris usque spithamza, nonnunquam stolonifera. 
Folia j-1" longa. Pedicelli tenues, unciales v. breviores, bracteolis 
lineari-subulatis fulti, — Calyces 13-2" longi, Margo loborum 
corolle nisi fallor integer.  Antherz sulphures, vix j' longm. 
Capsula membranea, bilinearis v. paulo longior, pleiosperma. 
- Semina fusca, compresso-globosa, vix J" metientia. 
Villarsia albiflora producit semina ovalia, scaberrima. Hec 
planta ad flumen Blackwood's River occurrit. |a 
