46 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Pirate 1058. 
FRANKENIA PORTULACIFOLIA, Spreng. 
FRANKENIACES. 
ortulaczefolia ; fruticosa, erecta, ramosissima, ramulis puberulis di- 
waticntia, foliis minutis cordatis or Arageree atisve convexis marginibus recurvis, 
floribus os ovario 2—3-mero. — Frankenia portulaccefolia, Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. 134. Bentions nia, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 70. Beat- 
sonia spiinlaaispelie. Roxb. in Beatson’s St. Helena Tracts, 300 ; DC. Prodr. 
i. 350. 
Has. St. Helena, dry rocks, Lots ridge, Sandy Bay, and Deep Valley, 
Burchell, ete. Flowering i in January. f St. Helena Tea” of the colonists. 
Frutex 2-4-pedalis, tortuosus, ramis nodosis fuscis fragilibus gracilibus. 
Folia 3, poll. longa, siccitate nite carnosula, puberula, j juniora et luxu- 
riantia orbicularia marginibus recuryis, seniora cordata v. globosa margini- 
bus ad costam revolutis. Flores terminal, foliis auatto longiores, fere ¢ poll. 
oe subulata. arium ovoideum, 2-placentiferum ; stylus columnaris, 
eee stigmatibus capitatis ; ovula in quavis placenta ad 6.—J. D. 
OK 
A ied, singular species, closely allied to no other. 
- 2and 3. Flowers. 4. Ditto, with the petals removed. A petal. 
6. ss 7. Anthers. 8, Ovary. 9. Vertical. 10. Transverse sections of ite: :—all 
magnified, 
PiatTe 1059. 
HEMIARRHENA PLANTAGINEA, Benth. 
SCROPHULARINER. 
HH. plantaginea » Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 518.—Vandellia oe 
F. Muell. in Trans. Viet, Inst. iii. 62. Lindernia plantaginea, F, Muell. 
Fragm. Phytog. Austral, vi. 102. 
_ Has. Tropical ease Mount King, Glenelg district, N.W. coast, 
Marten ; between Providence Hill ace M‘Adam am Range, FP. Mueller ; Arn- 
hem Land, M‘Douall Stuarts Expeditio 
Caules e basi crassa perenni subligon erecti, tenues, simpli l- 
, simplices, seepe ul- 
trapedales, glaberrimi. Folia opposita, ad basin caulis pauca conferta fere 
rosulata, brevissime petiolata, ovata yv. late Pome obtusa, integerrima, gla- 
