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XLVIII. HALORAGEiE. 
[Haloragis. 
Stamens 6 ; filaments very short. Anthers oblong-linear, pale yellow, slightly 
shorter than the petals. Fruit 3-celled, wings (yellowish) 2 to 4 lines long, f to 
1A line broad, rounded at the extremities. Seeds almost cylindric, solitary in 
each cell. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller, without a locality. 
2. H. elata (tall), A. Cunn.; Fenzl, in Huey. Enum. 45 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 
476. Rather coarse, with erect or ascending branches, £ to lift, high, hirsute 
with spreading hairs. Leaves alternate, or a few very rarely irregularly opposite, 
linear, acutely acuminate, £ to lin. long, with revolute margins, entire or rarely 
with a few short teeth, the floral ones smaller but mostly exceeding the flowers. 
Flowers solitary, not very small, in terminal racemes, forming a narrow leafy 
panicle. Calyx hirsute, the lobes not cordate. Petals 4, ciliate on the keel. 
Stamens usually 8. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit small, ovoid, prominently 
muricate. — Schlecht. Linntea, xx. 648. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller. 
3. H. ceratophylla (leaves horn-like), Endl. Atakta, 16, t. 15; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 478. Glabrous and glaucous or scabrous, with minute rigid hairs, 
rather coarse but not usually tall, the decumbent or ascending angular stems 
rarely exceeding 1ft. Leaves alternate or rarely a few of the lower ones or those 
of barren side-shoots opposite, either linear or linear-lanceolate with coarse 
distant teeth or lobes, or shortly pinnatifid, or sometimes nearly all entire, linear- 
oblong and obtuse, usually rather thick, with very scabrous margins, from J to 
l|in. long, the floral ones gradually reduced to small bracts. Flowers nearly 
sessile, solitary or 2 together, usually much larger than in H. tctragyna and H. 
heterophylla, in long terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes lanceolate- 
triangular. Petals 4, about 1 line long, the keel scabrous-hirsute. Stamens 
usually 8. Styles and ovules 4 . Fruit ovoid or globular, much larger than in 
H. tetragyna, scarcely ribbed but sometimes very rugose or muricate. — H. aspera, 
Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 306 ; H. pinnatifida, Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 119, but 
not of A. Gray. 
Hab.: Brisbane River ; Rockhampton, Dalluchy ; Warwick, Beckler ; St. George, Jos. Wedd. 
I have not seen authentic specimens of Endlicher’s plant, but the figure appears to me to 
represent this species rather than H. lieterophylla, which is also in R. Brown’s collection, and of 
which some coarse specimens, not well in flower, resemble the more slender ones of H. 
ceratophylla. — Benth. 
4. H. alata (fruit sometimes winged), Jacq. Ic. PI. Piar. i. 7, t. 69 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 479. A tall erect species, apparently glabrous, but scabrous with 
minute asperities only visible under a lens, the branches acutely angular. Stem- 
leaves opposite, distinctly petiolate, from ovate-lanceolate to oblong, f to 1-J-in. 
long, or the lower ones sometimes twice that size, regularly and sharply 
serrate, the floral ones mostly alternate and small. Flowers shortly pedicellate, 
clustered and drooping, forming terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes 
broad. Petals 4, about 1 line long, glabrous. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 4. 
Fruit rather small, globular or ovoid, with 4 ribs scarcely prominent in most of 
the Australian specimens, smooth or rugose between the ribs. — Hook. f. FI. N.Z. 
i. 62 ; Cercodia erecta, Murr.; D.C. Prod. iii. 67. 
Hab.: Brisbane River. 
Also in New Zealand and in the island of Juan Fernandez. — Benth. 
5. H. Bauerlenii (after W. Bauerlen), F. v. M. Trans. Pioy. Soc. Viet. 
xxiv. 133. A tall shrub with glabrous spreading branches, the smaller ones 
quadrangular and of a reddish tinge. Leaves opposite, attaining 2in. in 
length and 4 to 6 lines in breadth, flat, gradually narrowed into an acute apex, 
