380 



Lxxviil. GENTIAXE.E. [Limnaiillieiium. 



ahove 1 in. diameter, Uie lobes fringed on tlie margin, bearded lusule a the 

 base with a few Ion- cilia, and bearing a prominent longituduiuUving aloti, 

 their centre. Style conical, the stigmas (in the flowers examined) erect, 



(y lUC 



mnch dilated, the margins reduplicate and deeply frmged, assimiing 

 appearance of 4 longitudinal wings to a conical stigma. <-f P^^'^'J''^; " 

 bnmous, 4 to 5 lines long. Seeds smooth.- Fillarsla crenata, i. Mutii. 



Fragm. iv. 137. 



N. Australia. Albert river and Bentinck Island, nmne. _ n,.^,„„„ 



Queensland. Rookhampton, 0' Shanesy; Burdekin and Condamine rivers, liowmat^. 



N. S. AVales. Paramatta, Woo//s. 



Victoria. Murray river, F. Mueller; "Wiiuniera, Dallachy. 



4. L. geminatum, Grmh. Gent. 346, and in DC. Prod. ix. 140 (fl« /j 

 Brown's plant). Stems floating in water or creeping in mud, emittmg aj 

 the nodes either a tuft of leaves without tlowers or a single leaf with a mor 

 or less elongated flowering branch, along which the pedicels are in pairs 

 rarely 3 together with a pair of lanceolate bracts at the base, but not pamc^- 

 lately branched as in VUlar-sm. Leaves broadly ovate-oi^icular or alrao 

 reniform, deeply cordate with a close or open sinus, quite entire ^'^^'-J 

 obscurely sinuate, digitately veined, rather thick, from under 1 to aUout i ■ 

 diameter, but usually rather small. Pedicels 1 to 2 in. long, ["^^i iu 

 ments obtuse, much' shorter than the corolla. Corolla yellow (3 to 4 ^■ 

 diameter?), the lobes scarcely fringed on the margin, sparingly Ijearaea.^^ 

 the base, and without the longitudinal wing of L. crenattm. Ovules sp^^^^ 

 ing over the greater part of the inner surface of the ovary. -Lo ^'^ ^^^ 

 petal-like, spreading, crenulate or fringed. Capsule membranous. ^^^^^^ 

 numerous, slightly compressed, smooth tubercular or muricate, 4 ., 2 

 line dhmeter.—Fillarsla ffeminaia, E. Br. Prod. 457 ; P- Muell. Iragm. 

 137. 



N, Australia. Albert river and "Bentinck Islaiul, iTenne ; stagnant jaters n 

 Macadam Ranire, K Mueller (unless these specimens belong to L. ^^H^^^^ ^^^J^h^y^ Bav» 

 Queensland. Shoahvatcr Bay, K Broicn ; Brisbane river, F. Mueller; 3iore 



0' tfh a n est/ , , xfoolls ; 



N. S. Wales. Nepean river, R. Brown; Sydney, Clowes; Paramatta, 



New England, C. Stuart. 



Victoria. Avon river, Mitta-Mitta, OnicOj etc., F, Mueller. 



The seeds seem to be as variable in this as in other species as to their size, an _ .^^j ^pc- 

 or muricate sm:face. I have not seen the seeds, however, of Brown's or other i 

 cimens, which may possibly belong to the following species or variety. 



5. L. hydrocliaroides, F, MnelL HerL A creeping plant, d^o^^^^ 

 resemblmg the smaller and less developed specimens of L. ^T|.gtlian 

 Leaves in dense tufts, on long petioles, broader and less deeply conr^ ^^^^^^^ 

 inZ. geminatum, and often only truncate at tlie base. Corolla ^''^^^^^^ ^^'^tv- 

 than in that species and tlie seeds larger, densely and minntely 



pubescent. 



amn 



Queensland. Rockingham Bay, BaUachy, The indinnentnm of the ^}^^ , observed 

 ractcrizes this species is very difTerent both from the granular tubercles ^^^?^*^"?.r,, ^^h "^ 

 in so many species of Limnanthemum and Yillarsia, and from the rigid hairs oi 



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Villarsia lasiosjierma 



