478 XLV. HALOKAGE^. [HaloTagk, 



10. H. platycarpa, -B^/^/^. Erect, glabrous, under 1 ft. high incur 

 specimens, the branches rather slender,' terete. Leaves alternate, linear or 

 lanceolate, acute, the larger ones f to 3 in. long, with a few remote prominent 

 teetli or lobes, narrowed at the base iuto a short petiole, the floral ones gra- 

 dually reduced to small bracts. Flowers very small, pedicellate, solitary or 2 

 or 3 together under each bract, in slender terminal i:accmes leafy at the base. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, almost cordate. Petals 4, scarcely above \ line 

 long in the females, \ line or rather more in tbe males. Stamens usually 6. 

 Styles and ovules 4. Fruit depressed-globular, nearly 2 lines diameter, with 

 a loose almost spongy epic.irp and a crustaceous endocarp, 4 -nerved, the top^ 

 almost disk-like, with the small connivent calvx-lobes in the centre. Karely 

 the parts of the flowers and fruit are in fives instead of fours. 



^V. Australia- Swan River, Drummond^ \st Coll. and n. 705. 



11. H. ceratophylla, Undl. Maktu, 16, t 15. Glabrous and glau- 

 cous or scabrous, with unnute rigid liairs, rather coarse but not usually tall, 

 the decumbent or ascending angular stems rarely exceeding 1 ft. Leaves al- 

 ternate or rarely a few of the lower ones or those of barren side-shoots oppo- 



Fruit ovoid or globular, mucb larger than in IL tetra- 

 ) sometimes very morose ormuricate. — JI.asj)era,Lmd\. 



^, „ . -^y -.. .. ^v*s- ^** — ^-^^^, -. a * -^. 



floral ones gradually reduced to small bracts. Flowers nearly sessuCj solitaiy 

 or 2 together, usually much larger than in //. tdragyna and H. heteroplylUy in 

 long terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-triangular. 

 Petals 4, about 1 line long, the keel scabrous-hirsute. Stamens usually 8 

 Styles and ovules 4. 

 ^3^?/a, scarcely ribbed but 



in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 30,6 ; H.pinnaiijida, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 1 iy> ^^"^ "^^ 

 of A, Gray. 



Queensland. Bargoo CVlctoria) river, Mitchell; Kockhainpton, DaJtachy ; Warwick, 



Beckler, 



N.S.Wales. From tlie Darling to Cooi^cr's Creek, Yidorian Ex])edition; very 



common in all the swamps of the interior, Frasf^r, j- jj . 



. yictoria. Scrub of the N.W. parts of the colony towards the Murray, F.3laeuer» 



"Wimmera, Ballachy. v i- ' r 



Tasmania. Herdsman's Cove, Derweut river, 7J. Brown ; N. coast and S. EsK nve , 

 /. -D. Hooker, , , i 



S. Australia. Frequent on the Mi;irray, Gawlcr river, Cudnaka,^ Mount Reinarka , 

 ^ic,^ F. Mueller ; Spencer's Gulf, Wa rhur ton ; Vovi I Axm^oIm, WilhehiL ^^ 



I have not seen authentic specimens of Endlicher's plant, but the figure appcE^rs to 

 represent this species rather thau H. heteropht/Ua, which is also in R. Brown s ^o^^^ ^^^ 

 and of which some' coarse specimens, not well in flower, resemhle the m.o,re sjencier o 

 H. ceratophylla. 



■ 12. H. acutangula, F. Aluell. in Trails. Vict. Inst. 1855, Ip', * 

 glabrous, glaucous, rather coarse species, with the habit, H'''!'^^^^' ^'""^ ^o 

 leaves, inflorescence, and flowers of i/. ceratophylla, of which it may pro _j 

 be a variety, differing ia the fruit prominently and acutely 4-angleil, 

 smooth between the angles. 



8. AustraUa. Port Lincoln, mUielmi. 



. 13. H. hexandra. F. Muell. Fraam. iii. 31. Glabrous, diffuse, much- 



