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Seed terete-convex, flattish on the face. Herbs witha fusiform root, 
ls 
and pinnately divided or many-parted leaves. Umbe compound,. 
many rayed. Involucre many-leaved ; the leaflets 3-cleft or pinnatifid. 
Tarelucels — the leaflets undivided. 
magus, Linn. Common Bishop’s-weed. Stems 3 or 4 feet 
high, ct sLanvee piinataly divided ; segments cartilaginous 
on the margin, acutely serrate; lower ones lanceolate ; the upper ones 
=. — linear. 
A European weed become naturalised in Southern Queensland. 
Order RUBIACEZ. 
Trrrz RONDELETIEZ. 
WENDLANDIA, Baril. 
(Named after Henry Ludov. Wendland.) 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or ternately worled ; 
stipules entire or 2-fid. Flowers small, rosy or white, in terminal dense 
thyrsoid or panicled cymes, 2 or 3 bracteolate. Calyx-lobes 4, or 5, 
sub-equal, small persistent. Corolla tubular—salver—or funnel- 
shaped, throat glabrous or hairy; lobes 4 or 5 imbricate in bud. 
Stamens 4 or 5, between the corolla-lobes, fi filaments none or elongate; 
anthers versatile, exserted. Ovary 2 (rarely 8) celled ; eee filiform, 
stigma entire, 2-fid or 2-partite ; ovules numerous, on small glo bose 
placentas adnate to the septum. Capsule small, doce local 
rarely septicidally, 2-valved, many-seeded. Seeds v very minute, Hor- 
zontal, compressed ; testa puembreneone; obscurely vngole embryo 
short, cylindric, in fleshy album 
W. the position of fe F. v. ie , Vict. Nat. March eo — 
peduncle seldom over 2 in. long, the flowers i in cymes = "ssa 
with a short pubescence. Pedicels about 3 lines lo ong. 
linear-semilanceolate calyx-lobes deltoid-semilanceolate, “coral hardly 
3 lines long, with five oval lobes distinctly imbricate, nearly geht 
shorter than the tube, slightly twisted before expansion. 8 : 
fixed close to the base of the corolla, and nearly as long a8 the eo 
filaments short, anthers large, the base bilobed encluded, and as we 
as the if ong glabrous. Fruit about 1} line long, slightly ee 
beyond the calyx-tube, —— at the top. Placentaries ex 
into 2 narrow divaricate pla . M. Le. 
Hab.: Russell River, fate 7 sknicn. 
Tring PSYCHOTRIE. 
amgag eae Jack. ) 
L. gracilifiorus, n. s So named from the slender in 
Stems erect, seldom or ever branched, 2 to 4 ft. high, more te, 
airy. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, ovate-lanceolate, eee 
rounded or tapering at the base, 4 to 8 in. long, 2 to 25 ooping 
softly hairy on the back, primary veins numerous, irregularly } 
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