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 17. G. GENICULATA. (f). 



Herbacea, erecta, pubescens, eglandulosa, foliis longe-lanceolatis, den- 

 latis ; pedunculis 1-floris, elongatis, scapiforraibus, mcdio bracteas linea- 

 res gerentibus, fructiferis geniculato-reflexis ; calycibus corollisque pu- 

 bescenli-villosis. 



G. geniculala Br. prodr. 577. de Cand. prodr. VII. 514. de Vriese in Lehm. 

 pi. Preiss. p. 413. n. 1503. - id. in pi. Mitchell. (Sir. T. 4. Mitchell, 

 Jotirn. of an exped. into the interior of Trap. Austr. Land. 1848). 

 Anal. Good. p. 67. 



In Nov. Holl. ora meridional! ad Port. Phillip. Austr. trop. Mitch. Ins. 

 van Diemen. (fferb. Mus. Caes. Find.} In Toby's insel. Preiss. n". 1503. 

 Mus. Paris. Gunn. 



Descriptio specimiuis ab 111. Auctorc nohiscum communicati. 



Hcrba adscendens, erecta, humilis ; caulis abbrcvialus, ercctus, tantum foliis 

 radicalibus praedilus, turn demum adscendens, laxe foliatus et apice foliorum tan- 

 tum caespitem gerens, pilis tcnerriiins, brevibus puberulus ; folia obovato- aut 

 lanceolato-spathulata, basi longiter attenuata, apice obtusiuscula, vix acuta, aut 

 acuta. ima basi caulem semi -amplectentia. 0.003 0,007 longa, 0,013-0,015 lata, 

 plurimum acute serralo-denlata, vel subinlegerrima, erecta, juvenilia arachnoideo- 

 albida, deindc deglabrata ; pedunculi axillares, elongati, uniflori, folio duplo lon- 

 giores, ad medium fere bibracteati, articulali et frucliferi, ibique reclinato-geni- 

 culati; juveniles arachnoideo-puberuli, adulliores glabrali, 0,10-0,12 longi; bracteae 

 binae, oppositae, persisteutes, lineares, erectae, acutae, 0,005 longae, 0,001 latae; 

 corolla pallide-flava, minute puberula; stamina 5 libcra; stylus puberulus; stigma 

 campanalatum, erectum, ad indusii marginem cilialo-barbatum; fructus obovato- 

 oblongus; calycis limbo persistcnte coronalus, bilocularis, bivalvis, polyspermus; 

 valvae ad basin usque sejunctae, excavalae, a basi ad medium fere bipartitae; 

 septum planum, obovatum, apice truncalum, fructus apicem baud attingens, solum- 

 modo ad iusertionem limbi pertingens, valvis parallelum, deinde totum caducum; 

 semina flava, lenticularia, compressa, glahra, imbricata, ereclo-adscendentia. 



