Halorayrea.] FLORA OF Tasmania 119 
1. CEnothera Tasmanica (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Boi vi. 475) ; parvula, eaulibus prostratis di- 
varicatim ramosis basi repentibus glabris, foliis sessilihus opposes all. rnisquc linearibus lincari-oblongisve 
obtusis crispato-dentatis glaberriuiis, lloribus parvis, calycis tubo (ultra ovarium) hrcvi infundibuliformi, 
antheris breviter oblongis, stigmate clavato, capsula cylindraceo-tetragona torulosa pubescent o, scminibus 
obovatis plano-convexis, hilo umbilicali, marginibus subincrassatis. (Gunn, 10G5.) 
Hab. In alpine marshes at Marlborough, Gunn. — (II Jan.) 
Very closely allied to the <E. dentata, a plant which ranges from South Chili to the Andes of North America, 
agreeing with that species in habit, in the small flowers, short prolongation of the calyx-tube, and elavate or almost 
globose stigma, but differing in the shorter, less angled pod. and more procumbent habit.-- -St cum slender, a few 
inches to a span long, procumbent, creeping at the base. Iran* glabrous, linear or lim-ar-oblong, toothed, |-| 
inch long. Flowers small, purplish ? Petals unequally lobed, as short as the lobes of the calyx. Capsules axillary 
sessile, pubescent, rather longer than the leaves. 
Nat. Ord. XXIX. HALORAGEJ3. 
Australia is the head-quarters of this curious Natural Family, which is composed almost uiu-xcvption- 
ally of obscure weeds, having in many cases very little to recommend them to the inexperienced observer. 
In a systematic point of view, many of the genera are very obscurely related Co one another, and include 
water ami land plants, with very different habits and floral characters. One of the genera, ' 
indeed excluded from Haloragece by many authors, though originally referred to it bj Mr. Brown, and 
having no affinity with any other known genus of plants. The albumen in the seed, which is the character 
by which the Order is best distinguished from Onagrari.r, has been erroneously described as wanting in the 
genus Myriojihyllum. About forty-five species of Australian llaloragea are known. 
Gen. I. IIALOR.V. 
Calycis tubus teres, angulatus v. alatus ; limbi lobis \, persistentibus. Petal a 1, concava. dcculua. 
Stamina 4-8; antheris longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Stigmata \, simplicia v. ; 
cens, 2-4-locularis. Semina loculis solitaria, pendula. Embryo in axi albumin:- 
I have in the 'New Zealand Flora' adopted Brown's view (flm.-ral Remarks on : 
App. Flind. Toy.), and brought together Goniocar P »s and Cercadia and - *o find any 
satisfactory characters for keeping them separate. As thus constitute .!. 11 
a native of South Chili and New Zealand, and //. 
India, China, and Japan.— Erect or prostrate or creeping h 
Flowers hermaphrodite or bisexual, small, aznJarj oi ra env 
or pedieelled. Calyx terete, or angled, or winged ; limb four- 
boat-shaped. Stamens four to eight. Jnthcrs long, on Moit ti aim n -. ■. • 
mose. Fruit small, hard or coriaceous, often dark brown. -' 
cent, two- to four-lobed. (Name from dAs ; the sea, and pag, a grape-rime; from the form of the nut t ie ori- 
ginal species, which grows near the sea.) 
1. Haloragis pinnatifida (Asa Gray, in Bot. U.S. Expl. Exp. i. 627) ; bevis v. scaberula, caule 
basi decumbente ramosissimo, ramis gracilibus ascendentibus sulcatis, foliis alterms hnearibus remote irre- 
