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tenclentia abbrcviata, vag-ina aperta ipsum folium siiperanlc; 

 floralia subspatbiforniia scd foliacca iicc nienibranacea. Tas- 

 cicuU pauciflori : spiculac cum pcdunculo brevissiino ar- 

 ticulatse et sohibilcs, ct subtensa) bractea nervosa carinata 

 ejusdem circiter longitudinis. Gbima bivalvis biflora, ner- 

 vosa, acuta, mutica ; valvula3 sul)oocpiales septemncrvia3 ; 

 exterioris nervis tribus axiu occupantibus scd distinctis 

 reliquis per paria a margiuibus ct axilibus subocquidistanti- 

 bus ; interioris nervis a^quidistantibus, cxternis margin! 

 approximatis. Perianthium inferius (exterius), bivalve 

 neutrum ; valvula exterior septemncrvis, exteriori ghnna^ 

 similis textura forma et longitudinc ; valvula interior 

 (superior) angustior panloque brevier, dinervis, nervis alatis 

 marginibus veris latis induplicatis. Perianthium supcrius 

 hermaphroditum, paulo brcvius, pergamineo-mcmbrana- 

 ceum, nervis dilute viridibus ; valvula exterior quinque- 

 nervis, acuta, concava ; interior ejusdem fere longitudinis, 

 dinervis. Stamina 3, filamentis linearibus. Ovarium ob- 

 longum, imberbe. Styli duo. Stigmata plumosa, pallida ? 

 Obs. Neuraclme paradoxa, founded on a single specimen, 

 imperfect [_in its leaves and stem, but sufficiently complete 

 in its parts of fructification, differs materially in habit from 

 the original species, N. alopccuroidea, as avcII as from N. 

 Mitchell iana of Nees, while these two species differ widely 

 from each other in several important points of structure. 



In undertaking to give some account of the more re- [w 

 markable plants of Captain Sturt's collection, it was my 

 intention to have entered in some detail into the general 

 character of the vegetation of the interior of xVustralia, 

 south of the Tropic. 



I am now obliged to relinquish my original intention, so 

 far as relates to detail, but shall still ofier a few general 

 remarks on the subject. 



These remarks will probably be* better undei stood if I 

 refer, in the first place, to some observations published in 

 1814, in the Botanical Appendix to Captain Plinders's 



Voyage.^ 



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