ICONES PLANTARUM. 17 
1-2-pollicari; stipule 0. Cyme pedunculate, irregulariter ramose. 
Flores pedicellati, 3 poll. diam. Sepala 4-6, decidua. Petala 4-6, 
: ; eg es é 
ntes. 
4—5-loculare; stigma sessile, 4—5-lobum; ovula in loculis numerosa 
Bacca pisiformis. Semina minuta, testa punctata. 
As stated by Bentham in the ‘ Flora Australiensis,’ I had described 
this genus under the above name for the ‘Genera Plantarum’ (anc 
with the specific name of Cunningham) before the sid at Kew of 
the third volume of Mueller’s ‘ Fragmenta,’ wherein I found it 
described (all but the fruit) as Brachynema ornans ; abl the aoa 
Brachynema being preoccupied, I was compelled to ‘adopt my 0 
generic name, and my friend Mueller’s specific one. It is siti 
to find that this curious plant had not escaped Brown 
vation; specimens of it are contained in his Herbarium, collecte 
seventy years ago, during half a century of which they, together with 
the rest of his magnificent collections, were jealously closed to botanists. 
The fruit, which in Cunningham’s ie sees appears to be oblong, is 
in Brown's distinctly globose.—J. D. Hoo 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 38. Calyx and ovary. 4. Berry. 5. Transverse 
section of berry.—All but fig. 4 enlarged. 
Puate 1324. 
PHACELLARIA RIGIDULA, Benth. 
SanTaLacea, Tribe OsyYRIDEZ. 
P. rigidula, sa in Benth, et Hook. Gen. Pl. iii. 229, caulibus tere- 
tibus rigidulis ramosis 
Has. East Tia Mergui, Griffith. 
Fruticulus in Lorantho quodam rebar oe dense fascicu- 
latis teretibus ramosis rigidulis 3—5-pollicaribus, } lin. v. majoribus vix 
1 lin. crassis glabris aphyllis. Squamelle A nodos alternz, minute 
dentiformes v. vix prominentes. lores ad nodos secus ramos sparsi, 
solitarii v ; Gidetoclati sessiles, masculi subglobosi 4 lin. diametro, 
foeminei ovoidel, demum lineam longi. Perianthii tubus in flore mas- 
culo solidus, in fceminco ovario adnatus, lobi 4 v. 5, usque ad discum 
soluti, breves, crassi, westivatione valvati. Stamina 4 v. > ee rr 
rum affixa iisque breviora, filamentis brevissimis, crassis ; 
minales, loculis distinctis divaricatis longitudinaliter Peconic! 
Discus subplanus, — — y. inter lobos perianthii — 
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