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XCII. PEDALINEiE. 
[. Josephinia . 
1. J. grandiflora (large-flowered), R. Br. Prod. 520; Benth. FI. Anstr. 
iv. 556. Stems erect or diffuse (2 to 3ft. high?), glabrous or sprinkled with a 
few minute hairs. Leaves petiolate, lanceolate, or the lower ones ovate- 
lanceolate, all quite entire, 1J to 3in. long, glabrous, and minutely and sparingly 
pubescent underneath. Pedicels shorter than the petiole. Calyx-segments 
narrow, acuminate, about 2 lines long, the upper one usually shorter. Corolla at 
least lin. long, pubescent outside, the tube gibbous at the base on the upper 
side, gradually dilated upwards ; lobes broad, the 4 upper ones nearly equal, 
the lower twice as long and broader than the others. Ovary in the flowers 
examined 8-celled ; stigmatic lobes 4 (sometimes 3 according to Endlicher’s 
figure). Fruit, ovoid-globular, under Jin. diameter, very hard, villous with 
short soft hairs, armed with thick conical very unequal prickles, the persistent 
thickened base of the style forming a cylindrical or slightly conical beak, 
sometimes very short, sometimes at least as long as the prickles. — Endl. 
Iconogr. t. 106. 
Hab.: Endeavour Straits, E. Brown; Low Island, R. Brown, Home; islands of Howick’s 
Group, V. v. Mueller ; Three Isles and Lizard Island, M'Gillivray ; Pelican and Haggerstone 
Islands, A. Cunningham. 
Mr. Bentham points out that Endlicher has reversed the fruit (fig. k), so as to make the 
beak appear as a pedicel ; the seeds are also reversed. 
2. J. Eugeniae (After the Empress Eugenie), F. v. M. in Hook. Ken • Journ. 
ix. 370. t. 11 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 557. Stems procumbent ascending or erect, 
attaining 2ft. or rather more, every part of the plant densely villous with 
articulate simple or branched hairs. Lower leaves on long petioles mostly 
divided into 3 petiolate segments, the segments as well as the upper simple 
leaves oblong or lanceolate, coarsely-toothed. 1 to 2in. long ; the uppermost 
floral ones small, lanceolate and entire. Flowers pink, very small, on short 
pedicels in the upper axils. Calyx-segments linear, obtuse, very hispid, scarcely 
above 1 line long. Corolla about 3 lines long, hirsute outside, the 4 upper lobes 
short and broad, the lowest one larger. Ovary 4-celled ; stigmatic lobes 2, 
oblong-linear. Fruit ovoid, very hirsute, about Jin. long, the prickles small, 
often not exceeding the hairs, without any beak, but slightly raised ribs across 
the summit. 
Hab.: Suttor River, Bowman; and towards Cooper’s Creek, F. v. Mueller. 
Order XCIII. ACANTHACE,®. 
Flowers irregular. Calyx more or less deeply divided into 5 lobes segments 
or distinct sepals, the upper one often smaller and sometimes wanting or the 
two lowest united into one. Corolla with a long or short tube, the limb either 
two-lipped or of 5 spreading lobes, contorted or otherwise imbricate in the bud 
or expanded into a single lower lip. Stamens inserted in the tube, 4 in pairs or 
2 only, the upper ones then reduced to staminodia or entirely wanting. 
Anthers 2-celled or 1 -celled by the abortion of the other cell. Ovary superior, 
2-celled, with 2 or more ovules or rarely a single one in each cell. Style 
simple, usually subulate, with an entire or 2-lobed stigma, the lobes not 
dilated and the upper one often reduced to a small tooth. Capsule opening 
loculicidally in two valves, usually elastically recurved and bearing the 
placentas along their centre. Seeds usually flat, attached to hooked processes 
from the dissepiment called retinacula, or in the first two tribes the seeds 
globular and resting on cup-shaped dilatations or mere papillre, some times 
almost inconspicuous. Albumen none. Embryo usually curved. — Herbs shrubs 
or rarely trees. Leaves opposite, entire or rarely tocthed, or in a few species 
not Australian, lobed. Flowers axillary or terminal, in spikes racemes or 
