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vioribus, intus glanduloso-pubescentibus ; staminibus tubo 

 paullo brevioribus^ fere sequilongis, puncto rudimentario inter 

 longiora. — In Australiae austro-occidentalis interioribus. — v. s. 

 in herb. Hook, (Drummond^ 177, anno 1849). 



A 



This species is extremely different in its habit from any of the 

 former, approaching more in appearance to Anthocercis genis- 

 toideSy but the structure of its flowers and of its capsule is com- 

 pletely that of Cyphanthera : the leaves are scarcely a line in 

 length and half a line in breadth, so that the plant appears 

 almost aphyllous : the pedicel is from 2 to 3 lines long, the calyx 

 is 1 line long, the tube of the corolla is 2 lines, the lobes 1^ line 

 in length ; the longer stamens are nearly the length of the tube, 

 the other pair very little shorter, the anthers being all 1-lobed, 

 roundly hippocrepiform and extrorse, and after dehiscence, of the 

 shape of a peltate disk with a globular prominence in the centre ; 

 the disk that surrounds the base of the ovary is entire and free 

 on the margin, and the ovary is .surmounted by a prominent 

 4-grooved gland, into which the style is articulated, as occurs in 

 some other species. The capsule is small, globular, about a line 

 in diameter, its four valves being thin and testaceous, its free 

 lunate dissepiment membranaceous, and it contains 4 to 6 seeds 

 which are almost the length of the valves*. 



Anthotroche. 



This genus was first made known by Endlicher in his ^ Genera 

 Plantarum,^ p. 1404, his short description of the only species 

 being published in his ' Nov. Stirp. Mus. Vindob.^ p. 7. It 

 was placed by him among the Salpiglosside^s, but referred by 

 Mr. Bentham to Solanacea^y no doubt because of the more iso- 

 mer ous structure of its flowers. I first called attention in 1849 

 to the singular fact of the extrorse position of the stamens, and 

 confirmed the general analogy of its characters to Anthocercis, 

 Lately it has been noticed by M. A. DeCandollc, '^Prodr.^ xiii. 676, 

 as a genus to be excluded from Solanacec^^ and referred to Scro- 

 phulariace^y because of its unilocular reniform anthers ; its ge- 

 neric character there given is literally copied from the original 

 diagnosis of Endlicher, entirely omitting the remarkable features 

 indicated by me (%. op. i, 171). The unilocular anther, as in 

 Verbascum, is however not peculiar to the Scrophulariace(2y for 

 though occurring in several cases, it is there more an exception 

 than a general rule, being at the same time common in other 

 famihes, for instance in the Myoporacem: indeed, abundant 



* A sketch of each plant and analytical details of the structure of each 

 species of this genus, will be shown in supplementary plates, at the end of 

 this volume. 



