Victorian Plants. 261 



HAXiORAGrXS. 



1197. Calyx-lobes, petals and pistils constantly two. 



Semi-aquatic, glabrous herb ; leaves scattered, pinnatisected, 

 their lobes or segments very narrow, some occasionally 

 again divided ; flowers axillary, solitary or two or few 

 together, very small ; stamens four .; fruit in its entirety 

 almost compressed- ovate, somewhat pointed, consisting 

 of two connate fruitlets. 



(Meionectes Brownii. ) H. Meionectes, 



Calyx-lobes, petals and pistils four or seldom three 

 or two 1198 



1198. Fruit of spongy texture. 



A sub- alpine somewhat woody plant, comparatively tall ; 

 leaves all opposite, rather large, flat, mostly lanceolar, 

 serrulated ; two of the calyx-lobes deltoid, the two other 

 truncate-rhomboid ; fruit comparatively large, expanding 

 into four lateral membranes. H. Baenerleni. 



Fruit solid 1199 



1199. Petals almost white, relatively long. 



Glabrous plant, comparatively tall ; leaves mostly opposite, 

 generally linear-laiiceolar, hardly denticulated ; floral 

 leaves also opposite ; flowers solitary or two together at 

 each floral leaf ; petals gradually pointed ; stigmas four, 

 smooth ; fruit rather large, somewhat quadrangular, 

 usually one-seeded. H. mouosperma. 



Petals colored, relatively short ... ... 1200 



1200. Fruit at the base and at the summit enlarged by 



four tooth-like spreading excrescences. 



Somewhat invested with short soft hairlets ; leaves mostly 

 scattered, generally lanceolar, conspicuously denticulated; 

 flowers clustered within each bract ; stigmas slightly 

 bearded ; fruit large, quadrangular, the angles protruding 

 at top and bottom. Figure 55. H. odontocarpa. 



Fruit without any regular conspicuous tooth-like 

 excrescences at either base or summit ... ... 1201 



1201. Leaves partly or mostly long- and narrow-lobed. 



Weak slender herb, seldom tall, almost smooth ; stem 

 generally unbranched ; leaves scattered, the lower pro- 

 ducing three to five narrow lobes, the upper linear and 



