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Auatr. 223 (1786) ; Plant. Esoul. 67 ; Roth. Bot. Abhandlung. und Beo- 

 bacht. 48, t. 8 ; T. cornuta, Gsertner, de Fruct. & Seminib. ii. 483, t. 179 

 (1791) ; T. inermia, F. M. in Linnrea, 1852, 384 ; Demidovia tetragonoides, 

 Pallas, Enumer. Plant. Hort. Prooop. a Demidof, t. i. (1781). 



Prostrate, annual or biennial ; leaves deltoid-rhomboid ; flowers 

 subsessile or on pedicels shorter than the calyx, axillary, solitary or 

 less frequently geminate ; upper lobe of the calyx much broader 

 than long, semiorbicular or dimidiate- elliptical ; the other lobes 

 mostly deltoid, all connivent, slightly yellow inside ; stamens usually 

 about 1 6 ; styles short, generally 8, occasionally 4-7 or 9 ; fruit green, 

 almost turbinate, slightly compressed, wingless, 4-9-celled ; seeds 

 generally Tnore than four ; putamen usually toivards the sumrrlit 

 produdv.g four acute teeth, sometimes unequally eight-toothed or 

 without teeth, at the base excavated, at the summit with as many 

 ridges as fruit-cells. 



In Continental Australia sparingly dispersed along the coast 

 from Port Phillip to Moreton Bay ; also noticed in the vicinity of 

 Lake Torrens, and in Tasmania ; seemingly frequent in New Zealand. 



The Australian plant shows no differences from that gathered in 

 New Caledonia by Pancher, at Macao by Hance, in Japan by Th. 

 Siemssen, and in Valdivia by Philippi as compared on this occasion. 



MESEMBRYANTHE^. 

 Mesembryanthemi sp. 

 Found in the Chatham-Islands by Mr. Travers, but the specimina 

 accidentally lost. Most probably the Chatham-plant will prove 

 identical with M. australe (Soland. in Forst. Prodr. 523), since this 

 is the only species hitherto observed in New Zealand and in Norfolk- 

 Island. 



LEGUMINOS^. 

 Edwardsia grandiflora. 

 Salisbury in Transact. Linnean Society, ix. 299 ; Loddig. Cabinet, t. 1162 ; 

 Loisl. Herbier de I'Amat. iii. 182 ; Benth. in J. Hook. Fl. Nov. Zeel. i. 52 ; 

 E. micropbylla, Salisb. 1. c. ; Bot. Mag. t. 1442 ; Eeiobenb. Magaz. der 

 iEst. Bot. t. 19 ; E. myriopbylla, Wenderoth in Linnaea, v. 201 ; Sophora 

 tetraptera, J. Mill. Icon. Animal, et Plant, t. i. ; Meerburgb, Plant. Select. 

 1. 19; Bot. Mag. 167; Lam. Encyclop. t. 325 ; Bed. inDuhamel, edit. nouv. 

 iii. t. 20 ; Kern. Hort. t. 58 ; Eoem. Magaz, iv. 10 ; Sophora miorophylla, 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. first edit. ii. 42 ; Jacquin, Hort. Schoenbr. t. 269 ; Lam. 

 Enoyol. t. 325. 



This plant is inserted into this ILst on the authority of Mr. Travers, 

 who noticed in the bush on the margin of the great lagoon three 



