FranJcenia.'] XV. fkaxkeniace.^^. 153 



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Bauer, B a^ st er ;Yomgi River and Ktz2:erald range, ^TaTtceU ; Swan River?, Bnmmoiut, n, 

 279. Labillardiere's specimens are said to have come from Tasmania ; but there is very 

 likely to have been some mistake. 1 have been unable to examine any flowers from them, 

 but their habit and foliage leave no doubt as to their specific identity with tliose above 

 described. 



Var. (?) Irachjphjlla. Leaves, as in F.piwctaia, scarcely more than 1 line long and very 

 obtuse, but not produced at tlic base. Diunimond, Wc Coil, Suppl. n. 80. 



7. P, punctata, Turcz. in Bull, Mosc. 1854, ii. 367. Shrubby and 

 procumbent at the base, with numerous shortly ascendino; branches, ff'abrons 

 01' nunutely pubescent. Leaves crowded, but all opposite, oblong or shortly 

 linear, obtuse, 1 to 1^ lines long, uot pctiolate, but connate near the base, 

 and produced below their insertion into a short obtuse appendage, closely 

 pressed against the stem altliough free from it. Flowers small, on very short, 

 leafy, lateral shoots. Calyx cylindrical, scarcely 2 lines long. Petal-claws 

 free or scarcely cohering. 



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Order XVI. CARYOPHYLLE^. 



± lowers regular, usually hermaphrodite. Sepals 4 or 5, persistent, free or 

 united in a toothed calyx, imbj-icate in the bud. Petals cither as many ns 

 the sepals hypogynous 'or slightly pcrigyuous, entire or lobed, imbricate and 

 frequently contorted in the bud, or rarely minute and scale-like or none. 

 Stamens 8, 10, or fewer, inserted witli the petals. Pilaments filiform. 

 Anthers 2-celled, Torus small or in a few Silme^ lengthened into a 

 gynophore, or in some AUinece forming a suiall disk, shortly adnate to the base 

 of the calyx, or sliort glands between the stamens. Ovary free, 1-celIed or 

 partially divided especially at the base into 3 to 5 eells. Styles 3 to 5, linear 

 and stigmatic along the inside from the base or towards the top, free or more 

 01' less miited into I branching style. Ovules 3 or more, often numerous, 

 attached to a short or columnar placenta in the centre of the ovary, 

 amphitropous and usually curved. Capside membranous or crustaceous, very 

 I'arely succulent, opening at the top in as many or twice as many teeth 

 or valves as there are styles, very rarely ijidehiscent. . Seeds several, rartly 

 solitary by abortion, with a membranous or crustaceous testa. Albumen 

 ^e^^ly. Embrj-o curved round the albumen, or rarely straight or nearly so, 

 and excentrical, with the radical infej-ipr, or, when the embryo is circular, 

 turned lipu-ards.— Herbs, verj^ rarely shrubby at the base, usually thickened 

 «nd jointed at the nodes. Leaves opposite and entire, usually connected by 

 a transverse line or short sheath at the base. Stipules none, or small and 

 scarious. Inflorescence centrifugal, usually forming a terminal leafy cyme, 

 I'arely paniculate or racemose, or the pedicels all axillary. 



A large Order, especially ahuiulaut in the extratropical regions of the norHiern hemi- 

 sphere, rather less so in the high inouutaiu-raimes of troiucal Ariierira and Asia, and in the 

 more temperate regions of the southern hemisphere, very rare in hot tropical couutncs. Ot 

 the Australian genera none ai'c endemic. One. Bohjcarpmx, is chiefly tropical and almost 

 limited to the Old World ; another, Dnjmaria, is also chiefly tropical, hut ahnost entirely 

 American ; a third, Colobanikus, is chiefly cxtratropical and limited to the southern henu- 

 sp^ere ; a fourth, SteUaria, has almost as wide a range as the Order itself; the reuiaiuing 



