176 XVTi. POUTULACE.^. [Calandnma. 



so as to form little unilateral cymes. Bracts minute. Flowers very small, 

 wliite, on pedicels which rarely exceed | line. Sepals not i line long, obtuse. 

 Petals 5 or 6, narrow, rather long-er tlian the sepals. Stamens usually 3 ; 

 anthers ■ small. Style divided into 3 very short stigmatic lobes. Ovules 

 usually 3. Capsidc cylindrical, slender, often above 1-^- lines long, opening in 

 3 valves. Seed usually only 1, or rarely 2, in the base of the capsule, large 

 in proportion, orbicular, black, and veiy smooth and shining. 



Victoria. "Wirnniera river, F. Mueller. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Brummoncl ; Canning and Mnrcliison rivers, OlJJield, 



14. C, spergularina, F. MuelL Fra(/m. i 175. A small annual, with 



a tuft of linear-terete leaves under 1 in. long. Stems slender, decumbent, 

 slightly branched, 2 to 4 in. long or scarcely more. Leaves few, small, linear- 

 terete. Flowers phik, very small, in a rather rigid often flexuose raceme on 

 pedicels of 1 to 3 lines. "Bracts very minute and scarious. Sepals acute, a 

 little more than 1 line long in flower, 1|^ lines when in fruit. Petals 6, not 

 twice as Ions; as the calyx. Stamens about 15 ; anthers oblong, the cells 

 adheri]ig in the centre only. Style divided to the base into 3 linear stig- 

 matic branches. Capsule small, the valves remaining coherent at the top, 

 separating at the base, and falling off together. Seeds small, smooth, and 

 shinint^. 



W. Australia. Sandy bed of Nicholson river, Gulf of Carpentaria, F, Mueller. 



^15. C. granulifera, Benth, A small annual, with a tnft of linear ra- 

 dical leaves. Stems numerous, rigid, branching, decumbent or ascending, 3 

 to 6 in. long. Leaves few and small. Bracts very minute. Flowers very 

 small, in terminal one-sided racemes, on rigid pedicels of 1 or rarely 2 lines, 

 much thickened when in fruit. Sepals little more than \ line long and very 

 deciduous. Petals 5, 6, or sometimes 7, apparently white, about tAvice as 

 long as the calyx. Stamens scarcely as many as petals, with very short an- 

 thers. Style short, with 3 linear stigmatic branches. Capsule aljout 1 line 

 long, globular-conical, black, smooth and shining, and usually intklii^cent. 

 Seeds numerous, brown, veiy small and obovoid. 



■^WT- Australia. Swan River, Drummoiid, 



ith 



16. C, pygmsea, F. MnelL Jragm. i. 173. A very small annual, wi 

 numerous decumbent or erect stems, often under 1 in. and rarely exceeding 

 3 in. Leaves from oblong to ovate, thick and succulent, the radical ones not 

 exceeding 5 lines and the stem ones usually 2 to 3 lines long. Eacemes 

 short and dense, with the bracts mostly leafy but small. Flowers small, on 

 very short pedicels. Sepals succulent, obtuse, about 1^ lines long, or some- 

 times much larger when in fruit. Petals usually 5, 6, or 7, narrow, rather 

 longer than the calyx. Stamens varying in nuuiber, usually 2 or 3 more tlum 

 tin? petals, and connected in a ring at the base ; anthers short. Style di- 

 vided to the base into 3 long, linear, stigmatic branches. Capsule globular 

 or ovoid, cartilaginous, very smooth and shining, nnd often black, the valves 

 opening only very shortly at the top. Seeds small, minutely pitted.—:?'^^^- 

 7inm nanum^ Nces, in PL Preiss. i, 216. 



Victoria. Moist rocky or saiuly places in the Grampians, Mount Abrupt in tlieTatiara 

 country. Port Phillip, etc., F. Mueller, Adumson, and othrrs. 



