DESCEIPTIVE EECORD OF TWO PLANTS ADDITIONAL 

 TO THE FLORA OF AUSTRALIA, AND OCCURRING 

 ALSO IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S. 



Gentiana quadrifaria, 



Blume, Bijdr. 847 (1825). 



Annual, minute, glabrous ; stem leafy, very short ; leaves sessile, 

 roundish-ovate, somewhat pointed, very thinly margined ; flowers 

 generally solitary and terminal, sessile or on very short stalks ; 

 calyx cylindric-campanulate, to J or nearly -I cleft in 5 or some- 

 times 4 lobes ; its tube rather pale, membranous, slightly angular ; 

 its lobes ovate, or narrow-semilanceolar-ovate, thinly margined ; 

 corolla twice as long as the calyx, outside greenish, inside blue or 

 white ; its tube gradually widened upwards ; its lobes about half 

 as long as the tube, nearly semilanceolar- ovate, with minute 

 deltoid pointed entire or sometimes bifid lobules intervening ; 

 stamens about as long as the tube of the corolla ; filaments filiform, 

 dilated towards the bases ; anthers erect, narrow-ellipsoid, quite 

 blunt, basifixed ; ovary attenuated into a short style ; fruit mem- 

 branous, on a rather long stipes, ovate, compressed, at last deeply 

 bivalved ; seeds very minute, pale-brownish, tui"gid-ovate ; testa 

 subtle-streaked. 



In the vicinity of the Genoa (W. Baeuerlen). 



Height of whole plant, according to Australian specimens, 3 

 inches. Leaves ^^ inch long. Bracteoles none. Flowers ^ to 

 hardly ^ inch long ; the lobule from each sinus of the corolla 

 usually much shorter than the lobes, but sometimes fully half as 

 long. Stamens adnate to the lower portion of the corolla. 

 Anthers free, bursting longitudinally ; pollen yellow, consisting of 

 smooth ellipsoid longitudinally dehiscent grains. Stigmata two, 



