448 



"Wale 



XLII. SAXirUAGE^E. • [BauevQ. 



W » waies. Port JacT^soa to tbe Blue Mountains, U. Brown, Sieher^n. 287, and 

 otWsrV^ aWant on bauks of streams, often inUe water, Loume ; New England, 



^'victoria. Wet swampy places and marsty woods, in the southern and eastern parts of 

 '''VasiS';nt''"Derwent river, B. Brown ; very abundant throughout the colony, generally 



''' C :t:S/t.tf i^k slender and prostrate. ,1-^3 mostly about 2 line^ ^ 

 Pedicels long and slender. Flowers small. Petals usually 5 or 6^ l^'^'^'^lt]-^,^' Z 

 crophylla, 4b. in DC. Prod. iv. 13 ; D. Don, Cunon. 13. in Edmb. ^e«. h.l J«"'-";.^P;- 

 to June, 1830 ; B. galioides, Sieb. in Reichb. Icon. Exot. t-^^-Port Jackson, ^.5« 

 Caley, Sieber, n. 286, and others. The Tasmanian variety figured m the plate above quoted 

 is not quite so small and slender as Sieber's and some other Port Jackson specimens. 



2. B. capitata, Ser. in DC. Prod. iv. 13. A small slimb, either diffuse 

 with the habit of the shorter specimens of B. rubioides, var. mcroj^hj/Ua, or 

 with a woody stock and numerous slender stems of i ft., slightly pubescen . 

 Leaflets narrow, scarcely above } in. long, obtuse, usually with 1 P'"^'"/"^"; 

 lobe or tooth on each side. Tlowers almost sessile, solitary m e^>c ' ^j^^^' J^J' 

 several pairs close together at the ends of the branches, forming li^^e iC' y 

 heads. Calyx-segments 4 to 6, usually 5, about 2 lines long, ^'«'-e ^^'^^^J;'^ 

 S-fid than the leaves. Stamens not numerous ; anthers small. ^^^^ ^ 

 but attached by a broad base; ovules several in each cell, ascenmn i 

 near the base of the partition. Capsule loculicidal but scarcely septicKiai. 

 Seeds rather large, pubescent, rugose, with a prominent raphe.— i^- 

 Fragm. iv. 24. 7/ N w 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, E. Brown, R Mueller ; Hastings river, BecMer; e - 

 castle, Leichhardt. 



3. B, sessiUflora, F. Muell.in Trans. Fhil. Soc. Fid. i. 41, fl«^ F>-a^2 

 iv. 24. A shrub, with the habit of the larger forms of J5. T^^f ''^'*' . . 'ti,er 

 hirsute. Leaflets oblong or almost obovate, obtuse, i to 1 m- long ° "^^^^ 

 more, the margins recurved and usually entire, scabrous pubescent or ^ j 



Flowers (purple or pink ?) sessile in small axilUiry leafy ^^f ^^^„%°^q i,s,,allv 

 leafy heads. Calyx-tube turbinate, adnate to the ovary ; lobes b to y,^i ^_.^^^.^ 

 7 or 8, lanceolate, hirsute, 1 line long or rather more. Petals i o ^^^^ 

 __ long. Stamens few, rarely twice as many as petals ; anthers la „ ^ 



in £. rubioides. Ovarv half-inferior with a very thin dissepimeni, . ^^^^ 

 ovules in each cell, suspended from the summit. Capsule not seen p , 

 apparently 1 -seeded. — F. Muell. PI. Vict. ii. t. 16. ^^^^^ 



Victoria. Crevices of rocks on the summit of Mount William ^nd descen mg 

 the streams to the base of the Grampians, frequent at Morro-Morro, I'.M 



Tribe TIT. Saxifrage^.— Herbs. Leaves, in the Australian geue ^ 

 radical, alternate, or imbricate, without stipules. Stamens various. 

 free or shortly united at the base. 



as 



18. CEPHALOTUS, Labill. 



Calyx-tube short, free, lobes 6, valvate. Petals none. Stamens . 

 . ,^ 1 , , , T 1. ..\\. !.„_*. „^4i. a tb fk jrlanduiar cuu 



serted round a glandular disk ; anthers short, with a thick g 

 live. Carpels 6, free, distinct, with 1 or rarely 2 ascending 

 and tapering into short recurved styles. Fruit-cai-pels small. 



ovules 



