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Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bd. 2. Nr. 8. 



6. Frankenia Maiden» nov. sp. (Fig. 16). 



Fruticulus decumbens ramosissimus, caulibus calycibusque 

 dense breviterque setuloso-puberulis, internodiis foliis subduplo longi- 

 oribus. Folia brevia (3—4 mm longa), crassiuscula, sessilia, omnino 



revoluta, brevissime setuloso-pu- 

 berula (saltern juniora, seniora 

 concretione calcarea (?) alba tecta), 

 basi ciliata, subteretia, linearia, 

 false 4-verticillata vel inferiora 

 opposita vagina brevissima ciliata 

 vel nulla. Flores in cymis aliquo- 

 ties dichotomis, sessiles. Calyx 

 linearis, 4 — 5 mm longus. Corolla 

 parva, rosea; petala, ut stamina, 

 infra medium cohærentia, lamina 

 obovata ; stamina 6, inæqualia; 

 styli rami 3 ; ovula 2 in placentis 

 (3) singulis fixa. 



Hab. Austr. occ. interioris 

 ad Cue (leg. J. H. Maiden, Oct. 

 1909, ex herb. Nationali New 

 South Wales, sub. nom. F. punc- 

 tatæ; typus in Herb. Copenhagen). 

 In habit this species resembles F. ambita, from which it dif- 

 fers in the dense clothing of very short hairs and in the sessile 

 leaves and sessile (not imbedded) calyx. From F.pauciflora D. C. 

 it differs in the short sessile leaves, the few ovules, the short and 

 dense clothing etc. From F. punctata it is easily distinguished 

 by wanting the basal appendages of the leaves and by the lateral 

 placentas. The later character as well as the 5-merous flowers 

 distinguish it from F. tetrapetala. 



7. Frankenia bracteata Turcz., Bull. Mose. XXVII (1854) 



367; Benth. Fl. Austr. I (1863) 150; Diels et Pritzel, Fragm. 

 Phytogr. Austr. occ, Botan. Jahrb. 35 (1904) 389. 



I have seen the specimens quoted by Diels and Pritzel (1. 

 c.) and collected by Pritzel (No. 816) at Waeel (dist. Avon). 



8. Frankenia glomerata Turcz., Bull. Mose. XXVII (1854) 

 368; Benth. Fl. Austr. I (1863) 151. 



To this species I refer some specimens in Herb. Berol. named 

 F.pauciflora, namely: No. 5707, Northampton, L. Diels. They 

 agree in all points with the description given by Bentham (1. c). 



Fig. 16. Frankenia Maidenii nov. 

 sp., from Cue, W. A. (lV 2 nat. size). 



