C ARYOPHYLLACEiE. H3 



cum calyce turbinate glanduloso-pubescentibus ; petalis linearibus apice 

 emarginato-bUobis valvidisque capsular calycem paullo excedentibus ; 

 seminibus reticula to-rugidosis. 



Dichoglottis australis, Sclilecht. in Linnsea, 20, p. 631. 



Hab. In the vicinity of Puen Buen, New South Wales. 



Stems 6 to 12 inches high, from an annual root, branching in a 

 paniculate manner, erect, very minutely puberulent, a little glandular 

 towards the summit, flowering from near the base to the apex: the 

 pedicels nearly all becoming lateral. Leaves smooth, rather obtuse ; 

 the lower cauline ones narrowly linear, 6 to 8 lines long ; the upper 

 smaller and becoming filiform or setaceous. Pedicels filiform, solitary? 

 6 to 10 lines long, spreading in fruit, pubescent with glandular-tipped 

 spreading hairs, which are rather deciduous. Calyx turbinate, a little 

 larger than in G. muralis, five-lobed at the summit (the lobes or teeth 

 ovate and very obtuse), glandular-p'ubescent. Petals perhaps a quarter 

 longer than the calyx, narrowly cuneate-linear (but the flowers are 

 all late ones : probably they were broader and more conspicuous in 

 the earlier blossoms), notched at the apex. Stamens 10. Styles 2, 

 short. Capsule obovoid, obtuse, four-valved; the valves slightly 

 exceeding the calyx. Seeds numerous, reticulated-rugose with oblong 

 areolae much as in Jaubert and Spach's figure of G. {Dichoglottis) 

 tubulosa, except that towards the micropyle the areolations are rather 

 longitudinal than transverse. 



Doubtless this is the species described by Schlechtendal, and it is 

 the only known species of the genus from that part of the world. 

 But his plant was found in the southeastern part of Australia, and in 

 some minor points it does hot altogether accord with ours, as de- 

 scribed above. It is a coarser plant than G. muralis, with more strict 

 and prolonged stems, and lateral flowers. 



4. M E L AN D R I U M, Rcehl. 



Melandrium, Roehling, Deutschl. Fl. ed. 1, p. 254; Fenzl, in Ledeb. PI. Boss. 1, 

 p. 326; Endl. Gen. Suppl. 2, p. 78. 



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