

2+4 xxii. STETicuLiACE.^^.. [Commerso7iia. 



acute. Petals broad with involute lobes at the base, the ligula obovate or 

 spathulate. Central staminodium of each three lanceolate, lateral ones attaelied 

 to it, linear-filiform and recurved. Capsule densely covered with short, soft, 

 hirsute setae. — RHlingia crispa, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 18+9, ii. 10. . 



^V. Australia, Brummond^ n, 110. 



0. C. pulchella, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc, 1846, ii. 502. A low shrub or 

 utidershnib, the upper branches scabrous-toincntose or hispid with rust- 

 coloured stellate lunrs. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or oblong, \ to 1 ui. 

 long, coarsely and obtusely sinuate-toothed or lobed, undulate or often crisped 

 ou the margin, glabrous or scabrous above, white-toiuentose underneath. 

 Cymes pcduncidate, few-flowered. Calyx nisty-tomentose at the base, spread- 

 ing to 4 or 5 lines diameter, the lobes petal-like, white (or pink ?), broad, and 

 very obtuse. Petals with a cuneate concave base, and a short broad ligula. 

 Central stamiuodium of each three lanceolate, the lateral ones attached to it, 

 filiform and recurved. Truit not seen. — Rulmjia pnlvJtdla, Turcz. iu -Bull. 

 Mosc. 1849, ii. 10. 



"W. Australia, Lrnmmond, CoIL 1845, n. 111, aad Murcliisou river, n. 97- 



7. C. microphylla, Be}itn, Apparently a low shrub, with divaricate 

 branches, tomentose when young. Leaves often clustered, very shortly 

 petiolate, ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2 to 4 lines long, entire or sinuately lobcd, 

 veiy convex, glabrous above, wdiite-tomentose underneath. Cymes pedun- 

 culate, few-flowered. Calyx tomentose at the base, spreading to 3 or 4 hues 

 diameter, the lobes petaldike, white, broad, and very obtuse. Petals with a 

 cuneate concave base, and a very short broad ligula. Central stamiuodium or 

 each three lanceolate, lateral ones attached to it, filiform and recurved as 

 in C. pnlchella, but much smaller. Capsule about 4 lines diameter, villous 

 with short soft not crowded setoe. 



"W. Australia. Marclilson river, Bvummond, u. 98. This species has most of the 

 characters of C.'pulcliella, b.it the foliage is too widely dilfcreut to uuite it without having 

 seea iutcnncdiate forms. 



13. SEEINGIA, J, Gay. 



Calyx deeply 5-lobed, scarcely enlarged after flowering, and neither scarioua 

 nor coloured. Petals none. Stamens 5, alternate with the calyx-lobes, 

 alternating with 5 subulate staminodia, and slightly united with thcni at the 

 base; antlier-cells parallel, opening by dorsal slits. Ovary 5-celled, with 3 or 

 3 ovnles in each cell; styles cohering at the summit or nearly from the base. 

 rvuit-cai-i^els distinct, winged on the back, opening in 2 valves. Seeds 

 strophiolate, albuminous, embryo straight, with flat- cotyledons.— Shrub, witli 

 the habit nearly of a Commenonia. Flowers in dense, terminal or leaf- 

 opposed cymes. Bracteoles none. 



T]ie gcuus is now limited to a single Australian species. 



1. S. platjrphyUa, /. GayJnMtm.Mua. Pnr,\nAi%,t.U,^1' A tall 

 shmb, with the habit nearly of Commersonia Fraseri, the young branches loosely 

 whitish- or rusty-tomentose. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 coarsely toothed, 3 to 4 or even 5 in. long, often oblique at the base, glabrovis 

 or sprinkled with minute steflate hairs above, densely tomentose underneath. 



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