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Haloragis pycnostachya. 



Erect, rather clwarf; beset with spreading soft hairlets, leaves firm 

 from lanceolar to rhomLoid-ovate , flat, serrulated, alinost sessile, the 

 lower opposite , the upper scattered ; flowers in dense terminal spikes ; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolar , foliaceous, about as long as the flowers or 

 somewhat longer; flowei's singly sessile in each axil; calyx-lobes four, 

 almost deltoid, much shorter than the four outside short hairy petals; 

 stamens eight; stigmas conspicuously bearded; fruit small, subtle 

 downy, somewhat quadrangular, rough from two transverse rows of 

 minute tubercles, above the upper row contracted and streaked, usually 

 one-celled and one-seeded. Near Israelite Bay ; Miss B r o o k e. Differs 

 from H. confertifolia in the longer and less dense vestiture, in much larger 

 and less crowded stem-leaves, in broader and shorter calyx-lobes, in 

 more noduligerous and upwards more conspicuously contracted fruits, 

 the latter reminding of those of H. nodulosa. 



H. heterophylla must include also H. ceratophjdla, according to the 

 respective drawings by De Caisne, and by Bauer; it belongs more 

 particularly to the coast-regions , while H. aspera pertains chiefly to 

 the Inland country . and thus not occurs in Tasmania. Further, the 

 H. pinnatifida (A. Gr. non J. H.) seems a state of H. heterophylla ; 

 Endlicher derived his plant from Shoalwater Bay ; bis description 

 accords fuUy with the earlier one given by Brongniart, except the 

 remark on the supposed unisexuality of individual plants pronounced 

 evidently from imperfect material. Our collections show this species 

 to inhabit the following localities beyond those already recorded: 

 Gordon River (Miss a k d e n) , Mount Lofty (T e p p o r) , Barossa 

 Range (Dr. B e h r), Wannon River (S u 1 1 i v a n) , Emu and Creswick 

 Creek (Rev. W. W h a n) , Loddon , You Yangs , Snowy , and Hume 

 Rivers (F. v. M.), Genoa (Bäuerlen), Faramatta (Woolls), Moona 

 (C r a w f r d), Hunter River (Miss H.Carter), Clarence River (B e c k 1 e r), 

 Richmond River (Miss Edwards), New England (Stuart), Armidale 

 (Parrot), Tweed (E. Hickey), Brisbane River (L e i c h har d t), 

 Comet River (O'Shanesy), Georgina River and Gainsford (Bowman), 

 "Warrego and Maranoa (Bar ton), Burdekin River (F. v. M.), Mount 

 Surprise (Ar mit). The flowers are sometimes fascicled, and occasinally 

 supported by long floral leaves. Forms with particularly long and 

 narrow leaf-lobes, seemingly also belonging to this species, bear much 

 resemblance to meionectes. At the whole it is less robust than the 

 following : — 



H. aspera was originally in 1836 collected by Sir Thomas Mitchell 

 on the Murrumbidgee ; it has a wide ränge , thus is known from the 

 Upper Darling River (Würfel), Warrego (Mrs. Götter), Barcoo 

 (Schneider), Charlotte Waters (C. Giles), James and Finke Rivers 

 (K e m p e) , Evelyn Creek (A. King), Mount Everard (E. G i 1 e s), 

 Musgrave Ranges (Forrest), Eucla (Carey). Any endeavour to 

 separate H. glauca specifically from H. aspera, would prove futile ; 

 for unison the latter name is preferable. Under the name sclopetifera 

 a plant is separable from H. aspera, either as a variety or perhaps 

 as a distinct species , on account of its verrucular calyx , which when 

 fruit-bearing , is copiously beset at the summit with narrow dilated 

 and often simply or doubly-hooked excrescences , its leaves are from 

 linear-lanceolar to broad-linear , it is known only from Norman River 

 and Spear Creek (T h. Gulliver), and from Aramac Creek (Dr. 

 (F o u 1 1 n). 



H. acutangula extends to Point Sinclair; its leaves are rather flat 

 and often somewhat denticulated. 



H. salsoloides has staminate and pistillate flowers on distinct plants, 

 as first observed by Messrs Haviland and D e a n e , wo found this 

 rare species at Double Bay, consociated with Casuarina nana; it is 

 often only half-a-foot high, even when fruiting, and then somewhat 

 reminds of Tillaea recurva. Specimens from any mountain region 

 never came under the writer's notice. 



