4S3 



XLV. HALORAGEiE. {Haloragu. 



I 



sprinkled with a few short appressed lialrs. Stem-leaves ratlier crowded at 

 the base of the branches, opposite, linear-cuneate or oblong, entn-e or nearly 

 «o mostly about \ in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, thefloral onesall 

 reduced to minute alternate scale-like bracts. Racemes hbtorm, tormmg 

 much branched leafless termin;d panicles more slender than m any other spe- 

 cies riowers very small, distant, nearly sessile, pendulous. Calyx-lobes 

 broad but scarcely cordate. Petals 4, about \ line long, glabrous, hood- 

 shaped. Stamens 6 in the flowers examined, but perhaps sometimes ». 

 Styles and OTules 4. Fruit small, 8-ribbed, sometime^ 4-angled by the pio- 

 minence of -4 of the ribs, and quite glabrous and smooth, sometmres hn-sute 

 and nearly globular. 



N. Australia, Drumwiond, n. 205. 



26. H. lanceolata, Tt. Brown, Herb. A diffuse glabrous annual, with 

 the habit nearly of the smaller forms of H. hexandra, the slender ascending 

 branches rarely above 3 or 4 in. high. Stem-leaves opposite, ol^W"^ °^ 

 lanceolate, from under \ in. to nearly f in. long, quite entire, narrowed at uie 

 base, rather thick, the floral ones alternate and much reduced, but all lon^e 

 than the flowers, which, however, I have not seen perfect. Fruiting racem 

 slender, terminal, leafy, the fruits as small as in H. micrantha shortly pe 

 cellate, 2 or 3 together in each axil, reflexed, very small, ovoid, 4-angiea u 

 otherwise smooth, crowned by the 4 calyx-lobes. 



Vr. Australia, Marshes, King George's Souud, R. Broton {Eeri. R. Sr). 



27. H. micrantha, R. Brown in Wind. Voy. Jpp. 550. glabrous or 

 slightly scabrous, much branched and difl:use or slender and eve«t, "siu ^ 

 under 6 in. high, but when very bixuriant twice that height, the greater p 

 occupied by the panicle. Stem-leaves opposite, orbicular-cordate oi ^^ j^ 

 broadly oyate, serrate-crenate, 3 to 4 lines or rarely \ in. diameter, ^^.^^^ 

 ones reduced to minute alternate bracts. Eacemes filiform, in a loose _^|j 

 panicle. Flowers minute, solitaiy. Calyx-lobes short, not cordate. ^^^^ 

 4, about I line long. Styles and ovules 4. Fniit small, nearly S^^^^^ •_ 

 prominently 8-nerved, otherwise smooth and shining. — Hook, i- • ' ,, 

 121 ; H. Leila, Brongn. in Dupcrr. Voy. t. 68 B ; Gomocarpusmc^^^^^^ 

 Thunb. ; DC. Prod. iii. G6 ; G. microcarpus, Thib. ; PC. Procl. in- ^^ v 

 the diagnosis). _ , ^ ^,_^,. c^. 



N. S. "Wales. 



Port Jackson, Jt. Brown and others ; New England, C Siimri; 



renoe and Hastings rivers, Beckler. t» iip^ Mount ^^' 



Victoria. Daiuleuong and Haidlnger ranges. Ovens river, Mount iiuiiei, 



fal, F. Mueller; Portland, Alliit, • • ^ il in several parts 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, i?. Brown; abundant in moist sandy so 



of the colony, J. B. Hooker. 



S, Australia. Mount Lofty range, F. Mueller. 



Also in New Zealand, Khasia, and Japan. ti 



28. H. stricta, R. Br. Herb, Erect, ng-id^ but sletider, rat^^er^^^^ 



nearly glabrous in appearance but very scabrous. ^ ^^^"^" '^^f ^xi^ lartrer ones 

 or liaear-lanceolate, acute, entire or with small distant teeth, ^ ' ^ i^^.^cts. 

 1 to 2 in. long, the floral ones alternate, mostly reduced to^ gj^^aer ter- 

 Flowers clustered within each bract, shortly pedicellate, f^^"^p^^^|g 4^ about 

 minal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes small, acute. ^-^ ' 



