Limnantlieimm.] Lxxviii. gentian t;.E. ^td 



inner surfoce more or less bearded at the base with pedicellate glands, but 

 without any louoltudiual wing. Anthers linear-sagittate, on short flat h!a- 

 ments. Style short or long, with 2 broad lobed and spreading stigmatic 

 lamiuffi. Ovules on 2 broad parietal placentas. Seeds smooth tubereu ar or 

 mi-mtc.-Men^an(hes indica, Linn. Spec. 207 ; Bot. Mag. t. 658 ; Vf'^^--''-'} 

 Mca, Yeiit. Choix, t. 9 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. ni. t. Suppl-^U C^. 

 macropIii/Ua in the text) ; Limnanthemum Kleinianiim, Gnsei). (lent. Ui, aud 

 in DC. Prod. ix. 139 ; Seem. Fl. Vit. t. 33 ; L. JFif//iliannm,Gnseb Al cc. ; 

 FiUarsla nymphe^folia, Pras. in Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 257 ; Limnanthemnm 

 Fmeriannm, Griseb. Gent. 3i6, and ia DC. Prod. ix. 140, and probably 

 also Z. Forbesianum, L. Thnnhenjimum, L. Ecklomanum, ;£■ o'-J^'^^f ^«'"' ''"'^ 

 l. Sumboldilanum, Griseb. Gent. 3i5 to 348, and m DC. Frod. ix. iiJ, 

 140 ; FiUarsia tracJiysperma, Y. Muell. Fragra. vi. 136. 



N. Australia. Ponds near S. Alligator river towards Macaaam Range f ^'^f^ 

 ^Queensland. Lorhu river (not Swan River, as quoted by mistake ^ ^]ff^^^\ 



Rockingham Bay, Dallac/^j/ ; Broad Sound and Fitzroy river, Bowman ; also m Leichha, dl s 



fo'lectioa. 



■Wale 



The s 



am 

 the 



Asiatic, African, and American speci>nens, and even to /ubd.vule eacn o lu.-. ^ 



Wia. as in tropical Asia {T/nJtes) and A>,nerica {A.de St mimre), ' f^/^J^j^^™ 

 perfectly smooth or sprinkled towards the edge with a few tubercles, to f^'J '^^°= J J^^^ 

 }^tc all over, the style is long or short, and the cilia, or pedicellate Sl^-^^J^^' J^^^ J'^^;," ./^^ 

 lobes, are certainly very variable, althongh in most cases it is scarcely possible to a.ceitaiu 



e*en their presence or absence from dried specimens. Prkpbach drew np his 



As suspected by Thwaites, the specimen of Wight's, from which Gri^^eb^^^' "^ij^^ .^^ 

 Aaracter of L. iLaan, proves to be L. crislatum, whilst there >^, ^^'^fy ^^J^ J ^f^ ,,ted by 

 tte present species the Menyanthes indica of Linncens, as vvell as the \y° f o"^^^^ '^Jf^^^J 

 {•ni, viz. Euiph. Herb. Amb. vi. t. 72, L 3, and Rheede, Hort. Malab. ii. t. .8 Crct'-'-re 



"y Gnsebach by mistake to L. crislalam). 



A small plant, differing from 



J'- indicuu chiefly itv'size. Stems filiform. Leaves mostly braadly remfo u 

 fr deeply cordate, but passing here and there into the °f''ff.^'^^^^'^ 

 leaves of L. e.ignam, rather thick, quite entire, scarcely above ^^m bamct - 

 Pedicels clustered at the base of the leaves as in Z. ind,cum ^^^^^'fl^l 

 ::»A!^- ^-?- Co.oUa wh.e, about ^^^^^Sl^S^^^^ 



FiUarsia 



■^-aic uu uie margin and tnnged insiae at ui^ ""— \.-- - 



^l>out as long as the calyx, with few small tuberculate seed.. 



mnma, F. Muell. Fragm. 'iv. 128, vi. 137. 



W. Australia. York Sound, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham; lagoons on the l.t.- 

 •naunce river, F. Mueller. 



^3. L. crenatuxn, V. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. FicLl J]; -'^jf/^^f; 

 ^^f Journ. viii. 164. ' Stems floating or creeping, ^'^^^J^VwriTc^ Sanch 

 °f leaves, or a single leaf and a cluster of pedicels, or a short floweung branc 

 ««, ]n L. gen,inaUm, which this species closely resembles. Leaves b oau y 

 Jicular-conlate or'reniform, irregularly crenate, 1 to 3 ui. ^ ^^^.^0 te 

 'ck. Pedicels 1 to 2 in. lonj. Calyx-lobes nan-ower -'^^^T^'-^^^,,^ 

 '^^^ in L. geminatam and more united at the base. Coiolla jeilo 



