PLate 2776. 
CALANDRINIA GRANULIFERA, Penth. 
PoORTULACACE. 
C. granulifera, Benth. I. Austral. vol. i. p. 176; species ramulis 
fructiferis recurvis et capsula nigra nitida poro apicali dehiscente 
insignis. 
Herba monocarpica, 2-4 poll. alta, a basi multiramosa, glabra, ramis 
gracillimis, /olia carnosa, radicalia rosulata, spathulata, integra, 6-8 
lin. longa, caulina pauca, similia sed minora. Flores numerosi, albi, 
circiter 4 lin. diametro, unilateraliter cymoso-racemosi, breviter pedi- 
cellati, bracteis minutis cito deciduis, cree a ovato-rotundata, circiter 
llin longa. Petala sepius 7, angusta, 14— = longa, acuta Stamina 
petalis duplo plura. Semina numerosissima, aa poll. diametro 
t AusTRALIA : Dedari, twenty-four miles west of Coolgardie, at 
atioak t ,400 feet above sea- -level, G. H. Thiselton-Dyer. 
r. Bentham described this plant from rather advanced specimens 
eatiectat by Drummond on the Swan River. He states that the 
capsules are usually indehiscent, but after being steeped in water for: 
some time they open at the top by a circular pore. There are also 
indications that they split into two or three valves at a later stage. 
Plates 2776 to 2783 were drawn from specimens collected between 
Perth and Coolgardie, in 1903, by Mr. G. H. Thiselton-Dyer, son of the 
Director of Kew. Mr. Thiselton- Dyer, who is a mechanical engineer, 
and was engaged on the official tests of the pumping machinery for the 
Coclgxedia Water Supply, makes no pretension to botanical knowledge, 
but in the very little leisure he had, he succeeded in drying a collection 
of about two hundred species of plants, Having no means of transport- 
ing large parcels, and acting on advice, he confined himself almost entirely 
to small and chiefly inconspicuous plants, which constitute a Host inter- 
esting element in the flora of West Australia, This llection 
a number of curious plants, including two new genera baie a con- 
siderable ber of new and very rare species. Some of them had been 
collected previously by Dr iels and Dr. E. Pritzel, though the 
descri re tually published. To these gentlemen, who 
made very extensive collections during 0-1902, as well as to 
8. Le Marchant Moore, who also collected in the same region, I a 
greatly indebted for assistance in determining a r of doubtful 
i I Iso to record here the valuable assistance 
e€ ave 
received from Mr. L. Farmar in comparing this and other Australian 
collections.—W. Borrina HeEmstey. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2,a petal; 3, part of the stamens; 4, pistil; 5, capsule laid 
open showing the insertion of the seeds; 6, a seed; 7, section of the same, showing 
the embryo, A ad. 
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