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ICONES PLANTAEUil. 



Hab. Central Australia, MacDonnell Range, E. Giles. 



Herha annria, erecta v. adscendens, multicanlis, glabra, semipedalig 

 v. panllo altior. Folia sparsa, pauca, linearia, aoutiuscula, integerriraa, 

 pleraque semipollicaria, summa floralla ad bracteas parvas reducta. Pedi- 

 celli in axillis superioribns solitarii, uniflori, plerique 2-4 lin. lonoi. 

 Cahjcis segmenta linearia, lineam longa, basi breTissime carinata. Petala 



5, libera, unguibus in tnbum caljce longiorem cormiyentibiis, laminis 

 patentibus, oblon^is, 2-21 lin,^ longis. Stamina 5, ungnibus petalorum 

 breviora, filamentis brevisslmis liberis ; antber^ appendice parva ovata 

 terminatsB. Ovarium liberum, sessile, sub-S-lobnm, stjii basi dilatata 

 adnata crassiuscula coronatum. Styli lobi intna stigmatosi 5 sessiles 

 radiato-patentes. Fructus carpella 5 indehiscentia, l-sperma. Semen 

 erectum, albumine carnoso. Fmbryo rectus, radicula brevi infera. 



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This pretty plant, evidently allied to StacJchousia, differs, bowever, 

 essentially in tbe pentamerous ovary, and tbe remarkable flesliy cap or 

 base of the style crowcing tlie apex of the carpels. — G. Bentham. 



Eig. 1. Bud. 2. Flo-vrer expanded. 3. Petal. 4. Stamens, back and front vio^. 



6. Pistil. 



Plate 1231. 



CHOEITJENIA CAPENSIS, BentK 



w 



Umbelltfee^, Tribe Seseline^, 



Haw 



Sook 



C. capensis, Benfh. Lc species unica. 



Hab. 



South Africa, ISTieuwejaaresspruit, ZeyJier; in sandy localities 

 ^ater ^occasionally lodges, Griqualand West, M. E. Barber. 

 Herha ut videtnr annua, parrula, subacaulis v. prostrata,' preeter fruc- 

 turn glabra. Caules (sen radii primarii umbellEe inter folia radicalia 



V, 



sequales, ^ 

 divaricati, apice umbellulam densam foliosam simplicera 



V. in 



longioribus proliferam ferentes, caeterum aphylli. Folia dissecta, seg- 

 nientis paucis linearibus brevibns, radicalia sjepius petiolo 



l_i 



^ ^ , - r""'^ ^viuiwiu X— i-pollicari 



tulta, tioralia umbellulas mvolucrantia similia nisi sessiliora, omnia 

 tamen flores saperantia. Flores sat numerosi, minimi, inter folia 

 radicalia ad basin caulium et ad apices simplicium v. ad rLmificationes 

 prohferorum dense conferta subsessilia. Calycts denies lati breves r- 



