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Radix crassa, fasciculato-ramosa vel subsimplex.  Pefioli 1-3” longi, 
basi vaginantes, et scapi setulis seepe ramellosis sparsis hispidi, nec- 
non pilis stellatis pareissime conspersi. Folia numerosa, 2-14” longa 
et lata, herbacea, parcius quam petioli hispida, prope basin rotunda- 
tam vel leviter emarginatam integra, medio et antice plus minusve 
3-5-fida, lobis obtusis profunde et irregulariter crenatis. Scapi pe- 
tiolorum longitudine. Jnvolueri foliola 2-3, ineequalia, disjuncta vel 
interdum in cupulam basi coalita, hispida, oblonga, integra, vel ovata 
et rotundata, tunc lobata, semper basi dilatata, umbellis zequilonga 
vel breviora. Umbellæ simplices, pedicellis inaequalibus setuligeris 
1—4" longis, vel composite, radiis pluribus uncialibus et brevioribus 
umbellulam illi simplici persimilem et similiter involucratam geren- 
tibus. Calycis tubus 1-13" longus, cujus margini repando insident 
lobi (sivis sepala) sesquilineam longi, seilicet petalis alterni et sta- 
minibus oppositi, uninerves. Petala calycis lobis tam forma et mag- 
nitudine quam consistentia, structura, et colore exacte :equalia! An- 
there ovato-rotunde, subdidym:se, e rufo nigrescentes, 1" longs, 
dorso affixee : filamenta petalis dimidio breviora. Styli additis sty- 
lopodiis vix 1" longi. Plantam fructiferam nondum reperi. 
- This well-marked genus is allied to Xanthosia and Oschatzia, but 
differs from both and from all other genera of the order in the large 
deciduous membranous calyx-lobes, which so entirely resemble the pe- 
tals that at first sight the flower appears to be 10-petalous. ee 
Plate XI. Fig. 1, bud; 2, flower; 3, petal; 4, unripe fruit; 5, E. i 
transverse section of ditto :—all magnified. = 
MICROSCIADIUM. 
Microsciadium cuneifolium, Ferd. Mueller; radice perenni, caulibus 
herbaceis erectis, foliis cuneatis.3—9-nerviis apice 3—9-dentatis vel — 
laciniatis, floribus paniculatis, petalis glabris, fructibus subovatis 
leviter compressis, mericarpiis 5-costatis. — Pozoa cuneifolia, ro 
Mueller in Transactions of the Victoria Institute for 1854, 1855.— - 
Centella cuneifolia, F. Muell. MSS. et Herb. (Tas. XIL, sub nom. — 
Centelle cuneifolie.) a 
Has. In sphagnetis alpinis montium Cobboras-mountains, 6000 oak Be 
elevatione.—Anth. æstate.—Herba pedalis vel humilior. Folia cras- - a 
siuscula, unciam vel sesquiunciam longa, apice 3-9" lata, in petiolum — — 
E OES sensim angustata, venis ETE ner- 
