484 



XLV. HALOKAGE^. [Haloragis. 



rows of tubercles, crowned by the snuill smootTi calyx-limb.—//. leptoUieca, 

 F. Muell. Fragin. iii. 33. 



N.Australia. Yictoria river, F. 3Iudler; Port Essington, ^'•'^f^'f f ' ;™. °^ 

 the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Sims Islaud, A. Cunningham ; Gould Island, M bitU- 



vray 



•J 



H, tetragyna, Hook, f. 



Rootstock apparently perennial, more or less scabrous with apprcssed hairs ; 

 stems branching, diffuse decumbent or ascending, soipetimesall under b in., 

 rarely above 1 ft. long. Stem-leaves all or mostly opposite, hnear-lanceoiate, 

 elliptical or the lower ones ovate, rarely above i lu. long, except ni tall luxu- 

 riant forms, not cordate, and usually narrowed at the base ; the floral ones 

 all or almost all alternate and mostly reduced to small bracts shorter than me 

 flowers. Flowers small, nearly sessile, solitary withni each bract, m slender 

 usually one-sided tenninal racemes, often branching into narrow panicles. 

 Calvx'-tube not I line long. Petals in the males rather above 1 ""y«""' 

 smaller or none in the females. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 4. iiims 

 nearly globular, 4-angled, transversely rugose, attaining about t b»e 'li'J^^^p / 

 —V. Muell. Fragm. iv. 26 ; Gojiiocarpus letrar/pii'S, Labill. ^l-J^"^^-..;^^^' ' ; 

 39, t. 53: DC.' Prod. iii. 66; Huloragis gonocarpns, Spreng. byst. u. ^ow 



Goniocarpm tenellus, DC. Prod. iii. 66. 



Queensland. Moreton Eav, C. Stuart. , a,c«- 'N'ew 



N. S. Wales, Port Jacl.son to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown »"?^'';f'^' • , 

 England, C. Uluart ; Head of the Gwjdir, Leichhardt ; Hastings and Macieay 



Victoria. Australia Felix, F. Mueller ; Creswick, /. S. Whan ; proLaLly o^ er me 

 colony. 



Tasmania, Common in dry stony places, fields, etc.,/. D- Hooker. 



S. Australia, Barossa and' Mount Lofty raup;es, F. Mueller. lanceolate; 



Var. micrantha. Leaves longer thin in the southern specimens, and ^^ ij^.^^^^;^^^ To 

 racemes more slender and more branching, flowers nearly as small as in • (HaJorag'^^ 



this belong most of the northern specimens, and Gonlocarpus scaler, ^^ " ^^ j^jg 



3cabra, Bcnth. Fl. Ilon-k. 139), from Khasia, the Indian Archipelago, -ana ^ni , 1 1 



Bot to be specificnllv distinct. i i f 11 narrowed at 



Var. his/ida. More hirsute. Flowers small. Leaves rather ^"^"^''^yrK ^rt^yj^ 



the base.— Mount Mitchell, Clarence river, Beckler ; head of the Gwyctir, hetv 

 The southern form of the species is also in New Zealand, 



'" A 



H 



A. Gray, BoL Amcr. Expl. F.xped. I 625 

 )arscr than //. tetragijna, ^^^^^^'^^'J^' wS 



. . «. T . ci i'i i^-.n. .Stem-leaves 



or 



perennial, usually much coarser than //. tetragijna, s^^"^" cyj^ig^^ves op- 

 hispid with decundjent or erect stems often 1 to 2 It. long. .^"!' ' jj^te at 

 posite, ovate or orbicular, deeply and acutely serrate, i"^^"^^^" ° ^j i^roaJ. 

 the base, the larger ones f in., but mostly not above | in- long ' ^^^^^ ^^^ 

 Plowers rather larger than in 11. tetragijna, solitary ""^f j^^j^^h shorter 

 lower ones often opposite, the upper ones alternn.te, forming m ^^^^ ^^^^^^ 

 racemes and a much more leafy panicle than H. tetragynd^ a ^^^^ ^^^^^^ 

 usually exceeding the flowers. Fruit of If. tdragyna, but ^T.f°^Q Prod, 

 tubercnlate and smoother between V\\&m.— Goniocarpm iencrioiae, ^^^^ . 

 iii. 06 ; //. elata, Hoolc. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 47 a, not oi 



ok. f. PI. Tasm. i. 120. jnchhardh^'^ 



;. Port Jacksou to the Blue Mouutaius, Sieber, n. &«>, ^ 



IT. Gunniiy He 



N. S. -Wale 

 others. 



