f= 
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pears to be constant, and proves again that in this genus 
not much reliance can be put on characters derived from 
them. 
Sec. 1. Lobostigma. 
capsule. 
he only species of this section is a native of Tasmania. 
TASMANICA, n. sp.: caulibus capillaceis; cymis 
laxifloris umbellato-fasciculatis compositis ; pedicellis s elonga- 
. Br. 
Nb gerensirs er petra Gann’ ! “1991, in Hb. Hooker.— 
Well characterized and distinguished from any other species 
by the shape of the stigma. Fascicles of 4-8 flowers aggre- 
-gated in larger cymes; flowers 14-1} oe long, pee 5- 
parted ; anthers turned inward, with a v road commis- 
sure on the back; scales crenulate o arabe sides, ‘de eeply 
fringed and usually bilobed at the tip; cael nearly as long 
as lobes of corolla, much longer than the stamens, stigma 
commonly with 4 unequal lobes; ; Styles in “fruit subulate from 
a broad divaricate base, distant from another, with a small 
aperture between them; no ripe seeds seen. 
Sec. 8. Monogynella. 
Styles united entirely or for the greater part of their 
length, thick and compressed; stigmata capitate, sus phan 
or ovate, distinct or more or less coalescent. Ca 
larly circumscissile, usually 2-seeded ; ea of s 3 
thie i 
shape of the capsule, transparent, with a er rim, enti 
no part adhering to the base of the style. Seeds compressed, 
oblique, more or less rostrate, with a lon 8 
hilum. -Anthers sessile, or on very pert aments, often at- 
tached to the tube below the thro 
Stems thick ; flowers eanticey. small, always 5-parted, 
sessile or on short pedicels, supported by. bracts, in small 
