Australian Plants. 17 
Lindley, were probably not well developed, being gathered in 
the month of June. Examining the plant last year in the 
month of November, I became convinced that it belongs to 
the genus Lhotzkya. Ihave neither retained the specific: 
name alpestris, as the plant occurs most abundantly on the 
lower parts of those mountains, and in lotalities much exposed 
to the hot north-westerly winds. 
CUCURBITACE. 
Cucurbita micrantha. 
Stems prostrate, angulose, simple, as well as the petioles 
strigosely asperous; leaves subcordate, with 5 short blunt 
dentato.sinuate or incised lobes, on both sides hirtello- 
asperous, on the margin and beneath along the nerves densely 
strigulose ; tendrils short undivided; peduncles axillar, fili- 
form, fasciculate, much shorter than the petiole, with the calyx 
pubescent ; flowers monoecious ; berriesglobose, even, smooth, 
manyseeded. 
On the sandy-loamy banks of the Murray, sometimes 
washed by the floods. 
The fruit might, on account of its intense bitterness, per- 
haps be substituted for colocynth. 
GENTIANEZ. 
Limnanthemum crenatum. 
Leaves cordate-orbiculate, crenate, obsoletely palmatinerved, 
above even, beneath densely glandulose; segments of the 
calyx narrow-lanceolate, less than half as long as the corolla, 
exceeding but little the length of the capsule; segments of the 
yellow corolla on tho margin and orifice fimbriate, inside 
longitudinally broad-cristate ; style thick, abbreviate; stigma 
with five lacerate wings ; hypogynous glands fimbriate; capsule 
polyspermous; seeds ovate, laevigate, hardly keeled. 
In tranquil bends of the Murray river, Murrumbidgee, and 
Mitta Mitta, and in the nearest lakes and lagoons. 
A most handsome, and, with regard to its crenate leaves 
and the structure of the stigma, equally singular species. 
GOODENIACEZ. 
Velleya, R. Brown. 
Sect. Aceratia. 
Calyx five-parted. Corolla violaceous, hardly gibbose, with 
wingless underlip and half-winged upperlip. 
