476 



XLV. HALOUAGE/E. [Ilaloraijk. 



triangular. Petals 4, not i line long. Stamens usually 8. Styles and 

 ovules 4 or rarely 3. Fruit small, ovoid, glabrous, sraootli or slightly 8- 

 ribbed. crowned by the small erect calyx-lobes.— Gowiocar/ws mucmiatus, 

 Nees in PI. Preiss. ii. 225. 



Victoria. Heaths near Fitzroy river and marshes near Portland, Bobertson. _ 



S. Australia. Kangaroo Island, K Brown ; Murray scruh and Onkapai-inga river, e. 



WrAustralia. Bald Head, King George's Sound, H. Brown, ; muddy soil near Vasse 



river, Preiss, n. 1221. • Ti ■ oo;i.1a 



I can find no difference between the S. Australian and western specimens. It is possiDie 

 they may both prove to he varieties of H. digyna ; but in the latter, although tlie tlo^trs 

 are considerably larger, they appear never to have more than two styles and ovules. 



3. H. pithyoides, Bentlu Slender but rigid, erect, with numerous 

 virgate branches, \ to 1 ft. high, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs, 

 usually of a glaucous or blackisli tint when dry. Leaves alternate, narrow- 

 linear, thick or semiterete, rarely above \ in. long, entire, the floral ones 

 small and mostly reduced to bracts shorter than the flowers. Flowers small, 

 usually solitary, in slender racemes, forming a tenninal panicle scarcely leaiy 

 at the base. 'Calyx4ube turbinate, 8-ribbcd, usually hispid ; lobes ovate, not 

 cordate, quite glabrous. Petals 4, hood-shaped, about f line loii|, ciliate on 

 the keel, not reflexed. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 4. Irmt smaii, 

 ovoid-globular, with 8 prominent ciliate almost aculeate ribs, and crownea oy 

 the glabrous (^^^^-Xm^.—Goniocar pus pithyoides, Nees in PL Preiss. u. /^o- 



■W. Australia. Swan River, Tre'm, n. 1224, Drummond, Clarke. 



, 4. H. cordigera, Fenzl, in Hueg. Enum. 45. Erect, with slender hut 

 rigid terete branches, attaining 1 ft. or more, sprinkled witli a tew liair^ 

 Leaves alternate, narrow-linear, thick or semiterete, under 1 ni. ana o 

 under \ in. long, entire or rarely obscurely toothed, the floral ones reducea _^ 

 minute bracts. Plowers mostly solitary, pendulous, on short P"^^'^ j^' ^^ 

 slende-r racemes, forming a terminal leafless panicle. Calyx-lobes rather fe > 

 reuiarkabiv cordate and almost peltate, erect. Petals 4, above 1 line i g, 

 hood-shaped, ciliate on the keel, reflexed immediately on expanding anu ^^ 

 maining long persistent. Stamens usually 8. Styles 4, longer V'^ _,,ook 

 species. Young fruit nearly gloiiular, 8-ribbed, but not_ seen ripe. 

 Ic. PI. t. 508 ; Gomocarpus cordicfer, Nees in PL Preiss. ii. 226. ^^^ 



W. AustraUa. Swan River, ffuegel, Brummond, \st Coll. and m Oo .^»- ^^_' 

 ■eiss, n. 1::23. I have not seeu Huegel's owu specimens, but the description 



with 



'Preiss, n. \:.2'A. 

 curate. 



5. H.elata, A. Cumu; lenzl, m Hueg. Emm. 45. Rather cofi^^iirs. 

 erect or asceudingbrandies, | to Ii ft. high, hirsute with ^PJ!^""" "^p^itely 

 Leaves alternate, or a few very rarely irregularly opposite, ""^^ .'^|j ^ few 

 acuminate, \ to 1 in. long, with revolute margins, entire or rarely w ^^^^^^^^ 

 short teeth, the floral ones smaller but mostly exceeding the no^^'^J^ ^^\c\t. 

 solitaiy, not very small, in terminal racemes, forming a narrow le. ) ^^^^^g 

 Calvx hirsute, the lobes not cordate. Petals 4, ciliate on the keel. \^^^^^ 

 usually 8. Styles and ovules 4. ¥ruit small, ovoid, promineuuy w 



Schlecht. Liiuuca, xx. 648. . ^5^;^. 



K S. Wales. Barren rocky ridges, W. from WcUiugtou valley, A. Cmininj 



