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TRIBE 2. AcCHYRANTHEX.—Anthers 2-celled. Ovary with a single 
ovule. Leaves alternate or opposite. 
2. HEMICHROA, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-segments 5, free, erect, glabrous, 
rigid, white at least inside. Stamens 5 or fewer, the filaments united 
it an indehiscent utricle. ‘Seed vertical.—Maritime prostrate herbs 
or low spreading shrubs. Leaves alternate, linear, fleshy. Flowers ses- 
sile and solitary in the axils, between 2 rigid scarious bracteoles. 
The genus is limited to Australia, but is scarcely distinct from the European and 
Asiatic genus Polycnemum, differing indeed only in the thick succulent leaves and 
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8 e herb. Stamens 5. Style bifid . . . . .. s .1. H.pentandra. 
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L H. pentandra, R. Br. Prod. 409. A pana perennial, with 
Len stems and numerous shortly ascendin branches, forming 
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} to 3 the length of the perianth. Perianth about 13 lines long, the 
Segments acute, more or less scarious and coloured (white ?) inside, the 
outer ones almost ovate and 3-nerved, the inner ones narrower, more 
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denis to the middle or lower down, but described by others as very 
Shortly lobed. Fruit ovoid, shorter than the perianth, not oblique; 
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Te lete rme in the seeds examined.—Mog. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. ; 
Ook. f. FI, "l'asm. i. 311, 
tn pg, rtr muddy places on the seashore from b ae a 
ia. On the shore, Port Dalrymple, A. Brown; Great Swan Port, Back- 
seni own, Gunn. 
W. A tralia. Port Adelaide, F. Mueller. 
'""ustralia, King George's Sound, R. Brown. 
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