104 ■ X. VIOLARIE^. [lonidium. 



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7. I. calycinum, Sleud, ; I\ Muell. PL Vict, i. 224. A glabrous per- 

 ennial -with the tiabit, narrow-linear leaves and racemose flowers on long 

 leafless peduncles, of /. filiforme, but tlie leaves are usually all alternate, 

 the sepals larger, ovate, willi a sliort point, very thin and scarious on the 

 edges, usually fully 2 and often 3 lines long. Lower petal fully as large as in 

 J. Jiliforme, and of the same shape, except that the spur at the base is more 

 prominent ; the lateral petals scarcely exceed the calyx and are very obtuse, 

 the upper ones rather shorter. The protuberances at the base of the 

 loAver anthers are more prominent than in /. JiUforme^ broad and very ' 

 tuse, and the subulate tips to the cells are very minute or wholly wanting 

 Pigea calycina, DC. Prod. i. 307 ; Solea calycina, Spreng. Syst. i. 804 ; 

 Pigea glauca, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 5 ; lonidium glaucum, Steud, ; F. 

 Muell. Pi. Vict, h 67 \ Vlamhufia australasica, Vnese, in PI. Preiss. i. 399, 

 as con-ectcd, ii. 242. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Huegel, Bntm-moud, Freiss, n. 1449 and others; 

 Murchison river, Oldfield. 



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3. HYMENANTHEEA, K. Br. 



Sepals nearly eq^uah Petals nearly equal, short. Anthers almost sessile, 

 united in a tube round the pistil, the connectives all terminating in a mcm- 

 brane, and bearing on their backs an erect scale. Placentas of the ovaiy 2 

 or rarely 3, each bearing 1 ovule. Style short, with a 2- or rarely 3-Iobed 

 stigma. Berry globular, small. Seeds 1 or 2, nearly globular. Cotyledons 

 narrow, — Eigid shmbs or small trees. Leaves alternate, often clustered, 

 small, entire or toothed, without stipules. Plowers small, axillary, frequently 

 polygamous. 



A small geuus whicli, besides tlic following species, comprises one from Norfolk Iskiid, 

 and auotlier from New Zealand. 



1. H. dentata, R. Br. in DC. Prod. i. 315. A glabrous, rigid, much 

 branched shrub, often attaining luany feet in height, but low and scrubby in 

 alpine situations, the side branches often eouverlcd into strong thorns. 

 Leaves from oblong-elliptical to linear, obtuse or acute, nsiially i to \\ in- 

 long, and marked with a few in-egular distant teeth, coriaceous, sessile or 

 narrowed into a short petiole ; on some luxuriant barren shoots they be- 

 come much larger, membranous, and deeply toothed or lobed. Pedicels soli- 

 tary or 2 together, about 1 line long, with a pair of minute bracts. Sepals 

 orbicular. Petals about 2 lines long, the erect portion tAvice as long as the 

 sepals, the obtuse tips spreading or reflexed. Connective of the anthers 

 with a fringed terminal mcmbrjine, involute on the edges, the dorsal scale 

 linear, acute, as long as the cells. Peniale flowers in the normal form pedi- 



cellate as well 

 thers. Stigma 



as the males, but smaller, with smaller, usually imperfect au- 

 ^ I occasionally 3-lobcd, with 3 ovules, although usually 3 only. 

 Berry of a purplish coU)ur, the size of a pea.— Bot. Mag. t. 3163; It. 

 Banhii, F. Muell. PL Viet. i< 69. 



N- S. "Wales^ R. Brown and others ; Wolloudilly aud Cox's rivers, A. Cunningham ; 

 New England, F. Mueller. , 



Victoria. Sliady banks of rivers, creeks, and rivulets, and fissures of rocka to the 

 highest summits of the Australian Alps, F. Mueller. 



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