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Calandrinia.} xvir. portulace^, 173 



Flowers of a red-piu-plc, ratlier large, few together in a terminal raceme, tlie 

 pedicels 1 in. or more. Bracts small and scarioiis. Sepals very broad, rather 

 obtuse, thin and slightly coloured, with scarcely prouiiueut veins. Tetals 

 uarrow-obovate, about | in. loug. Stamens very numerous, irrej^-ularly imited 

 at the base; anthers short. Style divided to the base into 3 linear stig- 

 niatic branches. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 3-valved. Seeds very numerous 

 and small, black, minutely pitted. — Talinum j^ohjandrum^ Hook. Bot. jMa 



S. Australia. Spencer's Gulf, Warburton ; in the iTiterlor, Victorian Expedition . 



Y' ■'^^^s^^^lia? Barges, Dmmmnnd, Coil. 1S4S. n. 119; Flinders Eay, Collie; near 

 Bai|hiny, Oldfield ; Murchisou river, Sandford ; W. coast, Bj/noe, 



^^r.tepif^JnjIIa, Slender, with very narrow leaves 2 to 3 in. long, and few, rather 

 i^rga doners on long slender pedicels. W. coast, with the commoaer iovm, Bpioe, 



5. C. quadrivalvis, Z MnelL Fragnu i. 176. A glabrous annual, 

 With small, oblong-spatliulate radical leaves, soon disappearing, and several 

 decmnbent or ascending stems, from a few in. to 1 ft. or rather move, and 

 somelimes much branched. Stem-leaves from linear-spathulate to oblong or 

 lanceolate, narrowed into a petiole, the loAver ones often above 1 in. long, the 

 |ipper ones few and small. Flowers small, pink, in loose racemes sometimes 

 brancliing into panicles ; pedicels -5- to f in. Bjvicts very small, herbaceous 

 or slightly scarious. Sepals herbaceous, acute, about 1^ lines long. Petals 

 «, fully twice as lonoj as the calyx. Stamens numerous, with small anthers. 



Style divided to the base into 4 linear stigmatie branches. Capsule about as 

 long as the calyx, 4-valvcd, with numerous small seeds minutely pitted, 



-, V" Australia. Saudy places alou": the Victoria river and iu the Macadam raiiije, 

 ^. Mueller. . ^ 1 c 



^' C. liniflora, Fenzl^ in Ilneg. Ennm. 53. A slender annual, with 

 ^ tuft of narrow-linear radical leaves of 1 to 2 in. Stems several, ascending, 

 from a few in. to nearly 1 ft. high. Leaves few, linear, mostly small. Flowers 

 *'tppareutly red, in a loose raceme, on pedicels of ^ to 1 inch. Bracts small and 

 ^iiri'ow, but not searlous. Sepals broadly ovate, herbaceous, acute, 2 lines 

 oi\ rather longer. Petals 5, obovate, fully ^ in. long. Stamens about 10, 

 t^nited at the base in a membranous cup ; anther-cells linear, only united by a 

 swinll connective in the centre. Styles or stvle-branehes linear, very shortly 

 ^itntcd at the base. Capsule oblong, longer than the calyx, with numerous 

 ^^^'-^H, smooth and shining seeds.— Nees,m PI. Preiss. i. 247. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Preiss, n. 1953, Drtnnmo?!d. 



* ar. (?) (jraRcllJlora. Stems more leafy, flowci-s larger. Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy. 



]: C. gracilis, Be>,tL A slender annual, with a tuft of narrow-linear 

 f^icncal leaves of I to 2 in., and several stems of about 1 ft., bearing few linear 



/flora, but the flowers are smaller and 

 ""'eretit m structure. Bracts minute mid scarious. Sepals a little more than 

 1 line long, acute, thin. Petals 5, narrow, about twice as long as the sepals, 

 apparently white. Stamens about 10, the fihuncnts slightly dilated towards 

 the base, but not united ; anthers small. Styles divided to the base into 3 

 w i linear stiguiatic branches. Capsule rather longer than the calyx, 3- or 

 *-valved. Seeds very minutely pitted when seen under a strong lens. 



*•. Australia. Port Essington, Armslrom. 



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