332 AUSTRALIAN PLANTS 



Definitions of Rare or hitherto Undescrihed Australian Plants, 

 chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria ; by 

 Dr. Frederick Mueller, Government Botanist for the Colony 



of Victoria. 



{Continued f 7-0771 p, 210.) 



169. Phyllanthus lacunarius, F. MuelL; annual, smooth, glaucous; 

 stem upright, branched i branches angular ; leaves imbricate, deciduous, 

 obovate or cuneate-oblong, obtuse, on short petioles ; flowers monfficious, 

 axillary, solitary, on short pedicels; sepals minute, subovate, obtuse, 

 with broad, membranaceous margins ; stigmata very short ; capsule de- 

 pressed, trigastrous ; seeds trigonal, blackish, with longitudinal streaks, 



Hab, On the margins of lagoons which become dry during summer, 



at the junction of the Murray and Darling Eivers. 



170. Phyllanthus Fnernrohrii, F. Muell. ; fruticulose, upright, 

 branched, with a grey, velvet-like indument ; branches nearly terete; 



'leaves imbricate, deciduous, spathulate-obovate, on very short petioles, 

 apiculate ; pedicels axillary, subsolitary, half the length of the leaves ; 

 sepals lanceolate-ovate, acutisb, with membranaceous margins, outside 

 as well us the depressed capsule hairy-scabrous; seeds brown, Isevi- 



gate. 



Hab. On gravelly sand-hills near the Murray ; rare. 

 This species received its name in grateful acknowledgment of much 

 kindness which the author experienced from Professor Fuernrohr, m 



Eatisbon. 



XLVII. JUNCAGINE.^. 



171. Triglochin nanum, F. Muell.; annual, extremely small; root 

 fibrous ; leaves naiTow-linear, channelled, nearly blunt, shorter than 

 the threadlike, somewhat angular scape; fruits on spreading stalks, 

 pyramidal-linear, consisting of three carpels, which are slightly dilated 

 at the base, inside glabrous, on the back very thin-keeled, and on botu 

 sides narrow-margined. 



Hab. On mossy rocks frequent in South Australia, rarer in Victona. 



Quite of the habit of I. centrocarpum. 



XLVIII, AsTELIACEiE. 



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1"2. Astelia psychrocharis (Sect. Tricella), F. Muell.; root thick; 



