Sle?iopelahim,] viii. CRUcirER.T:. 79 



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sided, with recurved pedicels of 2 to 3 lines. Pod nearly globular, 1| to 2 

 nnes long, and often rather narrower; valves very convex, without any con- 

 spicuous nerve. Ovules 6 to 8 in each cell Seeds few, exuding abundant 

 mucus when soaked. 



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Victoria. Sterile, chiefly humid, sandy plains on the Murray, F, Mueller. 

 S. Australia. Near Lake Alexaudrina, Barossa Eansre, Crystal Brook, and around 

 Spencer's Gulf, F, Mueller, 



S- Australia, Bniminond, 



5. S. nutans, F, MuelL Frnrjm, iii. 27. An erect annual, about 5, in. 

 nigh m the single specimen seen, slightly hoary with appressed hairs. Leaves 

 hnear, entire or remotely toothed, about 1 in. long, narrowed at each end. 

 Racemes loose. Pedicels much longer than the calvx, slender, erect when in 

 flower, reflexed when in fruit. Sepals about liliue'long. Petals with a fili- 

 form point of 4 or 5 lines. Pod broadly oval-oblong, about 4 lines long, very 

 turgid, glabrous, ripening 3 or 4 seeds in each cell. 



S, Australia, Between Stoke's Range and Cooper's Creek, F, Wheeler [a single 



specimen in Uerh. Mueller). 



6. S. robustum, EndL in Hueg. Ennm. 4. A glabrous, erect, and 

 branching annual, in the original form stout, 1 to 2 ft. high, with rigid, 

 spreading branches, in the more common variety slender, | to 1^ ft, high. 

 With more erect branches. Leaves few, linear, entire or the lower ones pin- 

 imtifid, with 1 to 3 narrow lobes on each side. Eacemes rigid or slender. 



^2 Lo near z Jmes long. Petals orange or white, the Jamina more or less 

 lanceolate at the base, tapering to a point often 3 lines long. Pods spreading 

 or pendidous, rarely nearly erect, from nearly globular to shortly ovoid, 1^ to 

 2 hnes long, but rarely above li lines broad. Ovules 6 to 8 in each cell, 

 ^eeds few, with not near so much mucus as those of S, spJi^rocarpurd--lloo\:. 

 ic. PI. t. 620 ; S. gracile, Bunge, in PI. Preiss. i. 257 ; S. croceim and S, 

 mnn8, Bunge, I c. 258. 



W. Australia. Tasse river and Murchison river, Oldfield, the only specimens that 

 quite agree with Enaiicher's description: the more slender variety apparently much more 

 common about Swau River, Lrnmmond, n, 679, Preiss, n. 1936, 1938, 1939, and others. 



7- S. pedlcellare, F, Muell Heih. Habit, stature, and foliage of the 

 slender varieties of S. robustum, but still more slender, Riicenics very loose, 

 >vith filiform pedicels longer than the calyx from the first, and ^ to | m. long 

 ^vjien m fruit. Calyx rather more than 1 line long. Petals apparently yellow, 

 ^ith a filiform point of 5 to 6 lines. Pod nearly of ^. rohustum, globular or 

 Qvoid, but I never find more than 4 ovules in each cell. 



'^. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfeld, 



10. GEOCOCCUS, J. Drumm. 



Sepals short, spreading, equal at the base. Petab small Pod oblong, 

 ^^ghtly compressed, obtuse, the valves convex, with a prominent midrib ; 

 ^^igma sessile, entire. .Seeds few, the two scries rather distinct, oblong, not 



