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XLVIII. HALORAGE^L 
[Haloragis. 
small leaves at the base of the primary branches, the others reduced to small 
bracts. Calyx-lobes short. Petals 4, glabrous, rather above f line long. Stamens 
8. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit nearly 1 line long, narrow-oblong, muricate with 
2 or 8 transverse rows of tubercles, crowned by the small smooth calyx-limb. — 
H. lepthotheca, F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 32, viii. 162. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, It. Broivn ; Gould Island, M‘Gillivray ; Kockingham 
Bay, J. Dallachy. 
10. H. tetragyna (four styles), Hook. f. FI. Nov. Zel. i. 63, and FI. Tasm. 
i. 120 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 484. Rootstock apparently perennial, more or less 
scabrous with appressed hairs ; stems branching, diffuse decumbent or ascending, 
sometimes all under 6in., rarely above 1ft. long. Stem-leaves all or mostly 
opposite, linear-lanceolate, elliptical or the lower ones ovate, rarely above fin. 
long, except in tall luxuriant forms, not cordate, and usually narrowed at the 
base ; the floral ones all or almost all alternate and mostly reduced to small 
bracts shorter than the flowers. Flowers small, nearly sessile, solitary within 
each bract, in slender usually one-sided terminal racemes, often branching into 
narrow panicles. Calyx-tube not f line long. Petals in the males rather above 1 
line long, smaller or none in the females. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 4. 
Fruits nearly globular, 4-angled, transversely rugose, attaining about f line 
diameter.— F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 26 ; Goniocarpus tetragynus, Labill. PL Nov. 
Holl. i. 39, t. 53 ; DC. Prod. iii. 66; Haloragis gonocarpus, Spreng. Syst. ii. 261 ; 
Goniocarpus tenellus, DC. Prod. iii. 66. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, C. Stuart; many southern localities. 
Var. glabrescens. This western plant differs from the several other forms in beiDg nearly or 
quite glabrous. The stem-angles are smooth ; the leaves large, bordered by distant prominent 
teeth and serrulate between them. The flowers are larger than in other forms. Hab.: Dan- 
River, C. W. de Burgh Birch ; Diamantina, Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft ; Georgina. 
Var. micrantha. Leaves longer than in the southern specimens, and mostly lanceolate ; 
racemes more slender and more branching, flowers nearly as small as in H. micrantha. To this 
belong most of the northern specimens, and Goniocarpus scaber, Keen. (Haloragis scabra, Benth. 
FI. Hongk. 139), from Khasia, the Indian Archipelago, and China, appears not to be specifically 
distinct. Hab.: Stanthorpe. 
Var. hispida. More hirsute. Flowers small. Leaves rather broad, but all narrowed at the 
base. 
The southern form of the species is also in New Zealand. 
11. H. teucrioides (Teucrium-like), A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 
625 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 484. A perennial, usually much coarser than H. 
tetragyna, scabrous-pubescent or hispid with decumbent or erect stems often 1 to 
2ft. long. Stem-leaves opposite, ovate or orbicular, deeply and acutely serrate, 
rounded or cordate at the base, the larger ones fin., but mostly not above fin. 
long and broad. Flowers rather larger than in H. tetragyna, solitary under each 
bract, the lower ones often opposite, the upper ones alternate, forming much 
shorter racemes and a much more leafy panicle than H. tetragyna, all the bracts 
usually exceeding the flowers. Fruit of H. tetragyna, but the angles usually 
tuberculate and smoother between them. — Goniocarpus teucrioides, DC. Prod. iii. 
66 ; H. elata, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 475, not of A. Cunn.; H. 
Gunnii, Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 120. 
Hab.. Southern Queensland ; not common. 
12. H. depressa (depressed growth), Walp. Rep. ii. 99 ; Benth. FI. Austr. 
ii. 485. A small species, diffuse or prostrate, very much branched, glabrous in 
appearance, but scabrous with minute asperities. Leaves all opposite, ovate, 
often cordate, usually broad, under fin. and often not fin. long, the upper floral 
ones gradually smaller, but all opposite or very rarely the upper ones of side- 
