Australian Plants. 



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On sandrJdges along the Murray Eiver towards the junction 

 of the Murruml)idgee. 



To the same genus belongs Zlchya Latroheana of Meisner, 

 (in Lehmann plant. Preiss. I, p. 94.) 



CUNONIACEAiE. 



23. Bauer a sessiliflora. 



Hirsute; leaves lanceolate or subovate, generally enth-e; 

 flowers axillary and terminal, sessile, pseudo-verticillate; 

 calyces to the middle eight-cleft, with subulate-lanceolate 

 or linear segments and with a slightly ribbed obconico- 

 cylindrical tube; petals purple; stamens about twelve; 

 anthers oblong-ovate, emarginate, black. 



On the rocky subalpine summit of Mount WiUiam, and 

 thence descending along the rivulets into the valleys. 



Flowers larger and of a much deeper colour than in Bauera 

 Biliardieri. 



CELASTKINEiE. 



24. Celastrus Australts. 

 ( Harvey S Mueller.) 



Climbing; branches warted; leaves glabrous, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, crenate or repand-serrated, their teeth muci'onu- 

 late; panicles terminal; capsules three-valved, with one- or 

 two-seeded cells. 



On the Snowy and Buchan Elvers, not only in rich humid 

 ground, but also on rocks. 



The first Australian species described of the genus, resem- 

 bling C. paniculatus and C. dependens from East India. 



Lythkace^. 



25. Ammannia Australasica, 



Annual^ glabrous; stem erect, simple or branched, square; 

 leaves ovate- or linear-oblong, blunt^ with a dilated base 

 clasping; cymes axillary, on very short peduneles, or rarely 

 the flowers solitary in the axils; calyces cupshaped, with four 

 very short acute teeth and four indistinct ones alternating 

 -with them; petals four, nearly lanceolate, flavescent, very 

 soon falling olF; stamens four; capsule globose, extremely 

 thin, one-celled. 



