10 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



24. Abutilon Behrianum^ Y. MuelL; stem herbaceous, upriglit, 

 hardly branched, as well as the leaves covered with a velvet-like to- 

 ment ; leaves cordate, acuminate, repand or slightly crenate, about as 

 long as the petiole ; stipides linear-subulate, deciduous ; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, one-flowered, or terminal with several flowers, arti- 

 culated above the middle, often shorter than the petiole ; segments of 

 the calyx ovate-lanceolate, acute ; carpels nine to twelve, toraentose- 

 pubescent, compressed, oblique, ovate, aristate, with two to four black 

 somewhat scabrous seeds. 



Hab. In lagoons which become dry, and on the margins of lakes on 

 the Murray, Loddon, Darling, and Murrumbidgee rivers. 



25. Abutilon otocarpttm^ F. Muell. ; fruticose, upright, all over 

 grey-velutinous ; leaves, cordate-orbiculate, blunt, unequally crenate, of 

 nearly equal length with the petiole ; stipules linear, subulate, decidu- 

 ous ; peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, towards the top arti- 

 culate, but little surpassing the length of the petioles ; segments of the 

 calyx inflated, cymbiform, long-acuminate ; carpels numerous, shorter 

 than the calyx, very compressed, ear-shaped, nearly membranaceous, 

 velutino-pubescent, with one to three black glabrous rough seeds. 



of the Darling. 



Murray 



p. 381), from Spencer's Gulf. 



(F 



VIIL BUETTNERIACEiE. 



26. Thomasia pe^aZocaZj^^, Schlecht. 



(Linngea, xx. p. 633), 



not of Steudel. Hispid with starry hairs ; le; 

 entire, blunt on the summit and rounded on the base; stipules large, 

 foliaceous, oblique, ovate or half-cordate ; racemes lateral, simple, 

 few-flowered ; segments of the hypocalycine bracteole lanceolate ; pe- 

 tals five or wanting ; germeu short-downy, pointed ; style glabrous, 

 as long as the anthers, which are at the top short-dehiscent ; capsule 



three-celled. 



"Wilson 



^" ftp B 



the Bugle Kanges, and on the Gawler and MuiTay Rivers. The first 

 species known from the eastern portion of Australia. 



27. Lasiopetalum Belirii, P. MuelL; leaves coriaceous, narrow-oblong. 



