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deeply cut into narrow lobes. Scapes 1to 14 in. high, reddish, 
slighily glandular, with a few longer white hairs, flattened and with a 
longitudinal centre groove, bearing at the end 3 flowers on short 
pedicels. Sepals tinted with red, about 2-line long. Petals white, 
about 14 line long ; the stamens only about half that length. ones 
nearly globular. Styles 4, slightly club- shaped and stigmatic at the 
end as in D. pygmea. Capsule ule 4-valved, but only an old one seen. 
H Fraser sear Hon. Miss S. Lovell, a resident on the island who takes 
a deep interest in bota 
D. a, DC., Prod.; Benth., Flora Austr. ii. 457. A But 
species said ti to be annual, but evidently forming a hybernating bt mn 
the centre of the rosette like the other species of the section. 
forming tufts of about }-in. diameter. Stipules scarious (silvery); 
deeply lobed. Scapes glabrous, filiform, 5 to nearly 1 in. high, bearing 
r 
Hab.: Fraser Island, ree Miss oe 
Order MYRTACEZ. 
Tre MYRTE. 
RHODAMNIA, Jack. uel 
R. trinervia, var. spongiosa (n. var.) This Northern 
differs from ae ng She forms met with, in being glabrous i 
the inflorescence, and in es bigs branches bearing @ more yer i 
thick, white, spongy clot In an early stage of growth osing 
covered by a ‘reddish brittle. are but this cracks off early, ¢*P 
the spongy matt 
E. 
Hab.: PBagitbudre Creek, Bellenden-Ker Expedition, Barron Rives, 
Cowley. 
Order LYTHRARIEZ. 
Trirz AMMANNIEX. 
PEPLIS, Linn. le 
Calyx ea et with 6 rarely 5 external and 6 internal 7 
teeth. Petals 6 rarely 5, inserted at the throat of Hees ca ren fe f the 
fugacious or none. Stamens 6 rarely 5, oe in the jie fo hose, 
calyx-tube; filaments short, anthers didymous Ovary suds 
membranous s, 2-celled, included in the calyx. Style very erous, 
Capsule 2-celled, peers or bursting irregularly. Seeds eo 
minute, obovate, plano-conyex. Herbs with a ternate or 0 Pr ary, 
obovate or linear- nes entire leaves, es axillary, sessile, 80 
small, 2-bracteolate flowers 
P. portula, Linn. Water Purslane. A slightly oe sn the the 
ing plant, with obovate or oblong leaves. Flowers sessue ewbat 
axils of nearly all the leaves. Capsule ensloeey 7 the 
enlarged calyx, but seldom attaining a line in diam becom? 
-: Hab:: A c@mmon European gaee found in wet raion ; has 7% 
naturalised in many Queensland bush-h 
