Mr. J. Miers on the genus Anthoc^rcis. 37^ 



sparsely clothed inside with pulverulent glandular down, the seg- 

 ments of the border are very narrow and acute, 5-6 lines in 

 length, expanded, each with a rounded intervening sinus : the 

 capsule, somewhat rostrated, supported by the persistent calyx, 

 is 4-7 lines long, and contains numerous oblong seeds ;' it is 2- 

 valved, somewhat fleshy, the valves being thick and coriaceous, 

 completely septicidal below, and introflexed on their margins 

 above, the placentiferous column, which is adnate below, free 

 above, and split at its apex, remaining in the central space ; the 

 seeds are small and deeply scrobiculate ; the embryo as above 

 described. 



3. Anthocercis ilicifolia, Hook. Bot. Mag. sub t. 2961 ; ibid, 

 tab. 4200; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 192; — glabra, ramulis 

 fistulosis, virgatis, foliis inferioribus oblongis vel obovatis, an- 

 gulato-dentatis, dentibus subspinosis, subsessilibus, utrinque 

 glabris (vel sub lente papilloso-glandulosis), textura quam prse- 

 cedentibus tenuiore : inflorescentia subterminalis, valde ra- 

 mosa et elongata, floribus alternis, distantioribus, pedicello 

 filiformi e bracteis 2 sessilibus orto, calyce parvo 5-carinato, 

 dentibus linearibus carnosis acutis, coroUae sulphurese tubo 

 campanulato, subventricoso, 15-striato, laciniis Hneari-lanceo- 

 latis sequilongo. — Swan River (Drummond). — v. s. in herb, 

 plurimis. 



This species has a more herbaceous and virgate habit than the 

 two preceding, from which it is readily distinguished by its com- 

 pressed fistulose branching stems and thinner spinulose leaves ; 

 its primary branchlets are 10 inches long, its secondary 4 to 6 

 inches, and its ternary aphyllous and floriferous ramifications are 

 1 to 3 inches long ; the pedicels are alternate, solitary, filiform, 

 3 lines long, and spring out of two sessile minute bracts ; the 

 calyx is sharply 5-keeled, Inline long, the keels being extended 

 into as many sharp setiform teeth, longer than the tube ; the 

 tube of the corolla is 3 lines long, somewhat ventricose, with five 

 narrow linear segments of about the same length ; the stamens 

 are quite glabrous, geniculated at their insertion in the contracted 

 base of the tube, the longer pair being about two-thirds of its 

 length ; the anthers consist of two nearly parallel lobes slightly 

 cordate at base, fixed extrorsely on the filaments, and bursting 

 by two furrows externally ; the hypogynous gland is quite ad- 

 nate, somewhat flattened, and supporting the oblong ovary ; the 

 style is filiform, 2 lines long ; the capsule is 5 lines long, formed 

 Kke that of the preceding species. 



4. Anthocercis glabella, n. sp. ; — glaberrima, subviscosa, ramu- 

 losa, ramulis debilibus, pallide viridibus, angulosis; foliis 



