Alisa.) OXXXIX. ALISMACER. 185 
Carpels about 3 lines long, hard, often muricate . . 
Carpels under 2 lines long, smooth or tuberculate, the 
pericarp not TO DRTE Lon, SPL DARE Ide 
Leaves broadly cordate or reniform, the primary veins 
istinct, transverse veinlets very numerous and 
closely parallel, Carpels somewhat drupaceous . 4. A. reniforme. 
2. A. acanthocarpum. 
3. A. oligococeum, 
A, plantago, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 148.—Rootstock pe- 
Rant dorsal nerve, the whole forming a flat ring of 21 to 3 lines 
Rer with a depressed centre.—R. Br. Prod. 342 ; Red. Lil. t. 452 ; 
ees, Gen. F1, Germ. ; Reichb. Ie. Fl, Germ. t. 57. 
a S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls. 
ictoria. Goulburn Ri r. 
iver, F. Muelle 
The species ; a : 
northe ous eet spread over the area of the genus, especially in the 
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bo A. acanthocarpum, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 23, viii. 214 —Leaves 
adly Ovate or orbicular, deeply cordate with a narrow sinus and 
angular auricles, glandular-dotted, with 11 to 17 primary nerves, the 
"e Ones each side confluent within the margin of the auricles, 
hs transverse veiulets not very close and often connected by reticula- 
6 lo cle not so loose and broader than in 4 plantago, usually 
horl, the bracts under the whorls more herbaceous than in any other 
west often above 1 in. long and shortly connate at the 
oWers of 4. plantago. Fruit-carpels usually 6 or fewer but 
7 or 8, the largest of the genus, being about 3 lines long 
AC Tipe, the pericarp hard and rather thick, with 3 or 4 dorsal ribs 
roming ae muricate, 2 or more of the prickles often conical and very 
Gui tralia. Lower Victoria River, F. Mueller; Gulf of Carpentaria, 
d. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Mount Elliott, Fitzallan. 
alga oligococeum, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 23, viii. 214.—Closely 
basa] = A. aca hocarpum. Leaves the same, with the same narrow 
us 
; in 
nt ! 
(Mim glandular dots and almost pedate venation. Flowers also 
d a broad panicle with the lower bracts leafy, but smaller or 
