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sorum passim per Australian! extratropicam occurrens ; e. g. ad 
flumen Cygnorum (Preiss), ad pagum Lyndock valley prope sinum 
St. Vincenti, ad flumen Murray, in tractu Tatiara country, ad 
montem Abrupt tractus Grampians, ad sinum Port Phillip alibique. 
Herbula pinguis, circum stagna exarescentia interdum gregaria, 
nunc virens, nunc erubescens, erecta et unicaulis, vel diffusa vel 
adscendens et pauci- v. pluricaulis. Radix fibrillas tenues agens. 
Caules simplices v. patentim ramosi angulati, modo uncia breviores, 
modo paucipollicares, foliati. Folia lg-5"' longa, subclavata, supra 
planiuscula, obtusa, decidua. Pedicelli pro planta crassi, parum 
saltern nunquam valde patentes, 1-1J"' longi angulosi apice ampliati. 
Bracteola decidua membranea, circiter longa, satis angusta sen- 
sim acutata pedicello opposita. Sepala in modum foliorum carnosa, 
quibus similia, florigera circiter sesquilinearia, fructigera non raro 
accrescentia et interdum plane 4'" longa, basi truncata. Petala 
albida v. rosea denique calyptrge instar coha^rentia, tarde decidua. 
Filamenta albida. Antheras aut rubicund^, aut luteola!, longitudinis 
ratione latas. Stigmata puberula. Capsula astate denudata, 1-1 
longa, vertice fere pyramidata, ut apparet nunquam infra apicem 
dehiscens, ex olivaceo nigrita, duriuscula. Semina pasne longa. 
Specimina austro-occidentalia non habui, sed descriptio Neesiana 
ad amussim congruit. 
Calandrinia quadrivalvis . 
Annua, glaberrima, caulibus erectis v. adscendentibus subsim- 
plicibus, foliis radicalibus imisque caulinis lanceolato- v. ovato- 
oblongis vel lato-linearibus confertis, superioribus dissitis minoribus 
nunc minutis, racemis laxis terminalibus simplicibus v. divisis, 
pedicellis elongatis patentibus, sepalis subrotundis v. orbiculari- 
ovatis acuminatis capsulam parvam quadrivalvatam subglobosam 
fere cequantibus , petalis sex roseis ovato-cuneatis obtusis, stamini- 
bus numerosis, stylo nullo, stigmatibus quatuor fliformibus, semi- 
nibus numerosis minutis reniformi-ovatis turgidis nitenti-fuscis 
striolato-foveolatis. _ 
In locis arenosis subinde inundatis ad montes Macadam Range 
et secus flumen Victoria!. # # 
Herba saspe multicaulis pedalis v. humilior, Caules tenues. 
Folia radicalia in petiolum angustata, 1-2" longa, 2-6 lata, caulina 
minora nunc diminuta et tunc in bracteolas con versa. Racemi 
ante florescentiam recurvi. Bracteola altera pedicello. opposita 
1_1 y" longa acuminata tenera in basin amplexantem sensim dilata ; 
altera, si adest, perminuta pedicellum suffulciens. Pedicelli estate 
j_l i" longi erecto-patentes, minus frequenter divaricati, nunquam 
refracti. Sepala circiter \%" longa. Petala staminibus conspicue 
longiora setate conglutinata. Antheras J" 7 longae Havas. . Stigmata 
violacea. Valvas capsula! rigidula!. Columella tetrasticha e basi 
funiculosa. Semina tan turn J'" metientia. 
