20 I1CONES PLANTARUM. 
Herba perennis, eo agen are inflorescentia excepta glabra v. leviter 
sericeo-pubescens, Caules erecti v. ascendentes, parum ramosi, 1-2-pedales, 
alis 2-3 a foliis ce rarias nunc angustissimis nunc 2-3 lin. latis. Folia 
coriacea, nunc oblonga y. laieec integra v. dentata pollicaria v. longiora, 
nunc minima linearia v. ad squamas minutas reducta. Pedunculi in axillis 
superioribus solitarii v. gemini, 1-flori v. laxe 2—3-flori, bracteolis sub flore 
minutis. Calyx molliter villosus, tubo oblique subgloboso, lobis minimis sub 
indumento occultis. Corolla 6-9 lin. longa, pilis appressis laxisve vestita. 
Ovarium 1-loculare; ovulum basi erectum recurvum hippocrepidiforme v. 
fere annulatum. Fructus valde obliquus, 2 lin. diametro, pericarpio crustaceo 
Vv. slong tubo separabili. Semen hippocrepidiforme, supra semiseptum re- 
curve 
Although ayers figured by De Vriese, we have again bet this 
plant, in order to w the curious shape of the ovule an ; a 
pears hitherto to have seer observation, but which really sleaetbenies the 
- eerond ce oe consisting of five species, all from Western Australia.— 
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the stamens and style. — gh Two stamens. 5: ary, vertical section. same, trans- 
verse section. 7. Fruit. 8. The natn peed pai A areas the a 
Prate 1028. 
CATOSPERMUM MUELLERI, Benth. 
GOODENOVIE. 
atospermum, Benth. gen. nov.—Calycis tubus adnatus; lobi 5, liberi. 
Corolle tubus supra usque ad ovarium fissus ; limbi lobi 5, subzequales, demum 
digitatim arta marginibus breviter alatis. Stamina libera. Ovarium in- 
ferum, 2-loculare ; « ula in loculis gemina, ab apice ie es Indusium 
stata, 4-spe 
ma, 2 loculis imperfecte 2- oo a paia “Folin dentita. 
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pedalibus. a es petiolate, ita y obovata, Seagulls dentata, maxima 
absque petiolo pollicem excedentia, Pedunculi sepius 3-flori, pedicellis 
ee wclis lateralibus infra medium bracteolis minutis preditis. Ca- 
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