NEW AND RARE WEST AUSTJrALIAN PLANTS 165 



not account for the peculiarities of the root in the case of the 

 former. Mr. Campbell, however, has informed me that the speci- 

 mens were found in dry rocky places, similar to the habitat of 

 C. privmliflora. 



Calandeinia Creeth^ Tratman. Floribus in paniculas foliosas 

 digestis, sepalis latioribus quam longis, petalis 6 post floritionem 

 supra ovarium calyptratim persistentibus, staminibus 12 disco 

 hypogyno insidentibus, antherarum loculis oblongis, styli ramis 

 4 plumosis. 



A prostrate succulent herb of a bright coral red colour, with 

 sixteen to twenty-one leafy flowering-branches radiating to a 

 diameter of 8-10 inches. Eadical leaves in a rosette, terete- 

 clavate, longest 3-5 cm. tapering downwards from a thickness of 

 5-6 mm. near the top to a very short smooth rounded petiole ; 

 stem-leaves sometimes in verticils of three or occasionally four on 

 the main stem and at base of branches, or also one at base of 

 branches of inflorescence, clavate to obovoid or pearl-shaped, 

 sometimes slightly oblique or falcate, very obtuse, with a minute 

 slender point or filament at the top, the attachment to the stem 

 effected through a thin laterally expanded flat and clasping basal 

 portion of the petiole. 



FJowering- branches dividing in the upper half and forming a 

 panicle, the branches of w^hich bear unilateral racemes of 1-5-4 cm., 

 containing six to eight flowers, or sometimes dividing at the top 

 di- or tri-chotomously with a flower in the fork ; pedicels terete, 

 thickened at top, 0*5-1 cm. long, bracts minute, broad, scarious ; 

 sepals 2, broader than long, red, with scarious margins, 2x3 mm. ; 

 petals 6, ovate, obtuse or subacute, pale purplish, 5x3 mm. ; 

 stamens uniformly 12, the inner 6 opposite the petals and seated 

 on the ring-like margin of the hypogynous disk, the outer 6 alter- 

 nating with them, filaments slender and tapering, from half to 

 two-thirds as long as petals, the slender tip attached to the narrow 

 bar-like connective on the inner side, anther-cells oblong, distinct 

 and separate except at the connective, dehiscing by longitudinal 

 slits and everted when the pollen is shed ; ovary conical-semi- 

 ovoid, 2 mm. long in the opened flower and nearly as broad at the 

 base, 1-celled with numerous almost globular ovules, style divided 

 to the base into four branches, cohering till the pollen is shed, 

 then spreading to 6 mm. diam., plumose from the base on the 

 inner side with long smooth stigmatic hairs ; the dried petals 

 forming a calyptra on the capsule, which at that stage is 4 mm. 

 in length. 



Laverton, about 480 miles east from coast at Champion Bay, 

 October ; Miss Creeth. 



This elegant plant has its own combination of floral characters, 

 but agrees with C. quadrivalvis F. Muell. and C. uniflora F. Muell. 

 in having its flowers in panicled racemes and provided with four 

 styles and six petals. The stamens, however, are definite, as in 

 Claytonia, though in that genus they are five in number and seated 

 on the base of the petals, while the seeds are few. The position 

 of an outer circle of stamens alternates with the petals, and an 



