Australian Plants. 



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Lindley^ were probably not well developed^ being gathered in 

 the month of June. Examining the plant last year in the 

 month of November^ I became convinced that it belongs to 

 the genus Lhotzkya. I have neither retained the specific 

 name alpestris^ as the plant occurs most abundantly on the 

 lower parts of those mountains^ and in localities much exposed 

 to the hot north-westerly winds. 



CUCURBITACE^. 



32. Cucurbit a micrantha. 



Stems prostrate, angulose^ simple, as well as the petioles 

 strigosely asperous ; leaves subcordate, with 5 short blxmt 

 dentato-sinuate or incised lobes, on both sides hirtello- 

 asperous, on the margin and beneath along the nerves densely 

 strigulose; tendrils short undivided; peduncles axillar, fili- 

 form, fasciculate, much shorter than the petiole, with the calyx 

 pubescent ; flowers monoecious j berries globose, even^ smooth, 

 manyseeded. 



On the sandy-loamy banks of the Murray, sometimes 

 washed by the floods. 



The fruit might, on account of its intense bitterness, per- 

 haps be substituted for colocynth. 



Gentiane^e. 

 33. Limnanthemum crenatum. 



Leaves cordate-orbiculate, crenate, obsoletely palmatinerved, 

 above even, beneath densely glandulose ; segments of the 

 calyx narrow-lanceolate, less than half as long as the corolla, 

 exceeding but little the length of the capsule; segments of the 

 yellow corolla on the margin and orifice fimbriate, inside 

 longitudinally broad-cristate ; style thick, abbreviate ; stigma 

 with five lacerate wings ; hypogynous glands fimbriate ; capsule 

 polyspermous ; seeds ovate, laevigate, hardly keeled. 



In tranquil bends of the Murray river, Murrumbidgee, and 

 Mitta Mitta, and in the nearest lakes and lagoons. 



A most handsome, and, with regard to its crenate leaves 

 and the structure of the stigma, equally singular species. 



GOODENIACE^. 



Velleya, R. Brown. 

 Sect, Aceratia, 



Calyx five-parted. Corolla violaceous, hardly gibbose, with 

 wingless underlip and half-winged upperlip. 



