64 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
estivatione interioribus. Stamina 4, didynama, ad apicem tubi inserta ; an- 
there dimidiate, loculo fertili apice brevissime mucronato, sterili staminum 
superiorum in aristam crassam loculo fertili equilongam mutato, inferiorum 
ad rudimentum minimum reducto. Capsula subglobosa, calyce aucto inclusa, 
2-locularis, — dehiscens. Semina plurima, latiuscula, testa laxa hya- 
lina reticulat 
Herba? vy. a ? pilis brevibus laxis pubescens, siccitate nigricans, 
ramis laxis (flexuoso-pendulis v. Scandentibus?). Folia opposita, longiuscule 
petiolata, pinnatisecta, segmentis 3-5 ovatis inciso-dentatis subsemipolli- 
es V. se ‘ 
ramulo inter pedicellum et folium subtendens oriundo.  Bracteole sub 
yce 2, orbiculate, sub fructu persistentes et cum calyce aucte. Calya per 
anthesin vix semipollicaris, demum 9-10 lin. longus latusque. Corolla 
pulchre rosea, fauce intus intensius colorata, tubo cum fauce pollice longiore, 
- bo expanso circa 2 poll. diametro. Capsula calyce aucto omnino in- 
clusa. 
This handsome plant, of which the specimens are accompanied by a 
coloured sketch of a flowering branch, but without any indication of its 
technical characters which do not admit of its being united in the same 
genus, unless nearly the whole of = oe be consolidated into the 
single genus Gerardia—G. Brent 
. gute Corolla cut open, showing the stamens. 2. A lower and an upper stamen. 
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Pirate 1081. 
RANUNCULUS LIMOSELLOIDES, F. Muell. 
RANUNCULACER. 
R. limoselloides, F. Muell. ms. : pusillus, glaberrimus, caule fili- 
formi longe repente ad nodes radicante, foliis ad nodos solitariis binisve an- 
excedentibus, foveola nectarifera suprabasilari, see 8-12, antheris 
late oblongis, acheeniis ad 8 subglobosis, stylo elongato gracili subrecurvo. 
¥ cory New Zealand, in deep water, Waikare a Waikato, April, 1870, 
Herba pusilla, snag Limoselle. Caules spithamei, cespitosi, intricati, 
fog simplicibus ad nodos subgeminis. Folia 2-3 3 poll. longa, veri- 
valde v; as ol a i 
: 3 1. lata, nune a basi ad apicem sensim dilatata, 
ke ics a tiles v. oblonga et gna in Pies elongatum 
um angusta Flores + Soil. diam., pallidi 
A very Tees little species of the Hecatonia section, od the R. hy- 
