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parvi, 4—3-poll. longi, in fasciculos paucifloros axillares dispositi, flavi, breviter 
pedicellati, pedicello bracteolato, bracteola subulata. Calycis tubus minutus, 
ovoideus; limbus tubum longe superans, 4-partitus, segmentis lanceolatis 
CO 
acuminatis _persistentibus. orolla urceolato-tubulosa, pubesce re 
subcontracto, fauce glabra; limbi parvi lobi 4, erecto-pa ovati, acuti, 
valvati mina 4, fund i corolle inserta, filamentis erectis barbati 
prea ae lineari-oblongee, utrinque obtuse, 
ri-oblon tu 
2- sgt ; stylus filiformis, apice paulo incrassatus, stig- 
mate 2 cbt ‘ico; ovula in loculis solitaria, ab apice pendula, oblo onga, 
lateraliter ae pressa, fu nigel brevissimo. Fru¢us immaturus ovaideus, 
pubescens, 2-locularis, loculis angustis. Semina desunt. 
Obviously a member of the American tribe si igcorie and ae allied to 
Salzmannia in its ary inflorescence, tetram fl » filaments united 
into a tube which is inserted at the base of ‘te corolla-tube, and in the 
basifixed anthers; but differing widely in habit, in the calyx, structure of 
the style, and in the simple funicle of the ovule-—J. D. Hooker. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same with the corolla laid open. 3. Vertical section of ovary. 
4. Transverse section of ditto:—all magnified. : 
Prate 1146. 
SYNAPTANTHA TILLZACBEA, Hook. /. 
Rupiacnaz, Tribe Hepyoripes. 
Synaptantha, Hook. f. in Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii, 61. 
S. tillzacea, Hook. /. i. c. ne act a F, Muell., Fragm, Fi. 
Austral. iv. 39; bent. Fi, Austral: iil. 
Has. Sub-tropical Australia, in plains, Sir 7’. Mitchell, No. 417 (Nov. 
1846); Swan River, Drummond, No. 108, 4th coll. ; between Darling River 
and Cooper’s Creek, Howitt’s Expedition ; Sutton River, Bowman ; Mac- 
kenzie magats F. Mueller 
Herba humilis, perennis, ramosa, basi lignosa, minutissime scaberula, 
ramulis erectis v. ge teretibus siccitate sulcatis. Folia opposita, fad ee 
longa, in plantis junioribus obovato-spa athulatis, in senioribus linearibus 
ule 
rigidulis acutis, marginibus recurvis, Stipule breves, interpetiolares, mem- 
branacee utrinque cum foliorum basibus connate, persis nes truncatze 
v. 2-dentate. Flores ex albo rubescentes, solitarii vy. pauc ll. diam., 
