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OxalisJ] XXVII, GERANIACEvE. 301 



comictdata 



Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 693. A decumbent^ prostrate 



or ascending, inucli-braiiclicd, delicate perennial or sometimes annual, more or 



less pubescent, of a pale green, from a few inches to a foot long. Stipular 



. scales small, adnate to the petiole. Leaves alternate; leaflets 3, broadly ob- 



1 cordate, usually 3 or 4 lines long, but sometimes half that size. Pedimclcs 



axillary, about the length of the petioles, bearing an umbel of several small 

 yellow flowers, rarely reduced to 1 or 2, on rcflexed pedicels. Capsule column- 

 like, often above ^ in. long, with several seeds in each cell, rarelv short and 



• few-sceded.— Eeichb. Ic. FL Germ. v. t. 199 ; Wight, Ic. t. 18 ; Hook f. FL 



Tasm. i. 59 ; F. MueU. PL Vict. i. 177 ; 0. mkrophylla, Poir. ; DC. Prod, 

 1. 692; O, peremianSj Ha-w. ; DC. I.e. 691 (from the character given); 0. 

 Premimia and 0. cognata, Steud. in Pi. Preiss. i. 160. 



Queensland, Islands of the coast as well as on the maiulaud, Keppel Bay, 7?. Broicn ; 

 Perc}^ Island, A . CunniyjgJiam and others ; aud in the iuterior as far north as the Burdekin, 

 F. Mueller, Mitchell, etc. 



N. S.^Vales. Port Jackson, and northward to Clarence and Hastings rivers, Beckler ; 



southwai-d to Twofold Bay, F, Mueller ; and in the interior. 



' Victoria, Common 'throughout the colony, except the alpine tracts, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Common in pastures, waste x)laces, etc., throughout the island, /. D. 

 Hooker, 



f S. Australia. Extending over the colony inland to Lofty Range, F, Mueller nnd 



others, 



"W. Australia. From the S. coast to Swan River, Drummond, Preiss, n, 1915, 191C, 

 and others ; and to Murchisou river, Oldfield, 



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^ Ordeu XXVIII. RUTACE^. 



Flowers regular .nnd hermaphrodite, or very rarely nnisexual. Calyx 

 usually small, 4- or 5-lobed, or divided into^as luauy distiiict imbricate 

 sepals, rarely large, or with fewer or more uiunerous or valvate lobes. Petals 

 of the same nmnber as sepals, free or rarely cohering, hypogynous or slightly 

 peiigynous, imbricate or valvate in the bud/ Stamens usually free, either equal 

 la number to the petals and alternate with them, or double the number, or 

 barely more numerous, when twice as many as petals the sepaliue ones (those 

 opposite the sepals) usually longer than the others. Anthers usually versatile, 

 with 2 parallel cells opening longitudinally, the connective occasionally tipped 

 py a gland or projecting appendage. Toiiis usually more or less thickened 

 into an entire crenate or lobed disk, within the stamens, under or round the 

 ovaiy. Gyncecium of 4 or 5, rarely more or fewer carpels, more or less united 

 into a single lobod or entire ovary, or rarely quite distinct, with one cell to 

 each carpel Styles as many as carpels, either free at the base but united 

 ^ipwards, or united from the base; stigma terminal, entire or lobed. Ovules 

 usually 2 in each cell, superposed or rarely collateral or solitary, or more than 

 2 ; the micropylc superior. Fniit separating into 2-valved or rarely indehis- 

 cent cocci, or the carpels united in an indehiscent berry or drupe, or rarely 

 in a loeulicidally dehiscent ca])sule, the cndocarp frequently separating from 

 tlie pericarp. Seeds usually solitary in each cell -, testa crustaccous and often 

 sinning, or rarely coriaceous or nu'ndjranaceous ; albumen fleshy or none. 

 Embryo straight or curved, large in proportion to the seed ; cotyledons flat 

 ov rarely folded ; radicle supcrior.—Trees or shrubs, very rarely herbs, marked 



