164 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 



rete, glabrous ; leaves large, opaque, ovate or elongate-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, gradually narrowed into the petiole, on both sides perfectly 

 smooth and net-veined, not or indistinctly dotted, with entire or im- 

 perfectly repand margin ; racemes axillary or lateral, when flowering at 

 least three times shorter than the leaves ; teeth of the calyx unequal ; 

 stigma subsessile, bifid ; drupes large ovate. 



Hab, In woods of the eastern part of Gipps' Land. 



It shows affinity as well to N, laitrifolia from New Zealand, as to iV. 

 reticulata from eastern sub-tropical Australia. 



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XXXIIL Lqganiace^, 



122. Mitrasacme (Sect. Lymgyne) distylis, E. MuelL; annual, minute, 

 glabrous; stem upright, simple or a little branched, smooth; leaves 

 oblong-hnear, somewhat carnulent ; pedicels axillary and terminal, se- 



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taceous, solitary, rarely two or three together, at least twice as long as 

 the leaves ; calyx bcU-shaped, very short, bilobed, not excelled in length 

 by the corolla ; styles separated ; capsule enclosed ; seeds net-veined. 



Hab. Around swamps near Mount William, 



In stature resembling Mitrasacme paradoxa, but from this as well as 

 all the other species widely different in its disjoint styles. 



XXXIV. Gentiane^. 



123.^Seb3ea (§ Phyllocalyx) alUdiflora, P. MueU. ; leaves somewhat 

 fleshy, broad-ovate, the lower ones roundish, blunt, almost nerveless ; 

 sepals indistinctly keeled, oblong, blunt, winged at the base] cyme 

 simple, close ; lobes of the corolla four, whitish, ovate-oblong, blunt, 

 half as long as the tube; style short-exserted, with a bifid stigma. 



Hab. In saline pastures from Port Phillip to Port Fairy, and at 

 George Town in Tasmania. 



Approaches next in its characters to S. albens, from South Africa. 



124. Limnauthemum cre««^«»2, P. Muell.; leaves cordate-orbiculate, 

 crenate, obsoletely palmatinerved, above even, beneath densely glandu- 

 lose ; segments of the calyx narrow-lanceolate, less than half as long as 

 the corolla, exceeding but little the length of the capsule ; segments of 

 the yellow corolla on the margin and orifice fimbriate, inside longitudi- 

 nally broad-cristate ; style thick, abbreviate ; stigma with five lacerate 



^mgs ; hypogynous glands fimbriate ; capsule polyspermous ; seeds 

 ovate, la^vigate, hardly keeled. 



