8 
without spots, scarcely longer than one 
inch, blunt, not like in Hibiscus m\iltifidus 
produced into an acute angle. Stamens 
half as long as the corolla, pale yellow. 
Pollen golden-yellow. Styles five, their 
free parts l-l^"line long, yellow. Stigmas 
depressed, bearded. Capsules unknown. 
It difiera from HibiscUvS Shirtii in longer 
pediuiclcs, larger flowers, deeply cleft in- 
volucre, longer stipules, and a more ashy 
» and velvety covering. 
I named this species after my university 
friend, Fr. XTieliaufF, Esq., Avho, as a late 
member of the Legislative Assembly, was 
one of the promoters of the South Austra- 
lian expedition. 
Hihiscus mnUifidns, Paxton’s Magazine of 
Botany Vll, 103, 
H. Meisneri, J\Iiquel in Lehm. pi. Preiss. I, 
240. 
Eyre’s Depot Creek. It occurs on the Flin- 
ders Eanges frequently, also at Port 
Lincoln. 
The segments of the involucre vary in 
number from ten to fifteen, the seeds 
in being hairy or glabrous. 
Geraniace^. 
Erodium cyguorum, Nees in Lehm. pi. Preiss. I, 
102 . ■ 
Elizabeth Creek. 
Erodium moscliatum^ WiUd. sp. plant. Ill, 631. 
Elizabeth Creek. 
Ebankeniaceje. 
Franlcenia paiicijiora, Candolle prodr. I, p. 350, 
Lake Campbell, Stuart’s Creek, &c. 
F. fruticulosa is, according toCandolle’s diag- 
nosis, not specifically distinct. The speci- 
mens from the above localities prove this 
to be a singularly variable plant. It is 
•sometimes downy, and produces often 
leaves fidly half an inch long. 
Carvophvlle.e. 
Scleranthus pungenSy 11. Brown prodr. p. 412. 
Wonnomulia. 
A desert species allied to the aljiine Scleran- 
thus diaiider. 
Eolyearpata s^gnat}dra. (Sect. Aylmeria.) 
An annmd herb, smooth, branched, erect ; 
leaves linear, with slightly revolute mar- 
gin, the radical ones spatliiilate; stipules 
lanceolate, setaceous, acuminate ; flowers 
cymose, on short pedicels ; bracts lanceo- 
late-ovate, finely one nerved ; sepals lan- 
ceolate, acute, of unequal length, one- 
nerved. quite scarious, not much longer 
than the corolla, Jilaments In tlieir whole 
length connate wUh ikepeials into a tube; 
apex of the petals at last bifid ; filaments 
thread-like, tlicir upper part gradually 
separating from the corolla ; sterile sta- 
mens none ; anthers oblong, yellow ; styles 
united into one, not twisted ; siigmas ~ dis- 
timi ; capsule suhscssile, ovate-conical, 
seeds faveolatCy wrinkled, on funieles, 
shining, brown, ovate-kidney-shaped. 
■Wirrawirraloo. Also in Arnhem’s Land, 
and in other parts of tropical Australia. 
A span or less high. Leaves often less than 
an inch long, hne broad. Bracts 
scarcely exceeding one line. The longest 
of the sepals hardly more than two lines 
long. Corolla at the top pink, tender 
membranous as in the other species. The 
anther-cells divergent at the base and 
summit. Style thin. long. Capsule 
14" long, with several seeds. 
FTo description having been offered as yet of 
any Australian species belonging to this 
genus, I avail myself of so apt an opportu- 
nity to characterise those contained in the 
Melbourne public collection, to which may 
bo added Polycarpica corymbosa, Lam., 
which is scattered over nearly the whole 
of tropical Australia. 
Polycarpaa longijlora, (Sect. Aylmeria.) 
Stem tall, erect, velvet-downy, simple ; 
leaves linear, by the indexed margins chan- 
nelled, rarely lanceolate and flat, mucron- 
ulate, soon smooth j stipules linear-lanceo- 
late, setaceous-acuminate, scantily ciliated; 
cymes densely corymbose, many-flowered; 
bracts lanceolate, one-nerved; sepals large, 
of unequal length, lanceolate, one-nerved, 
entirely scarious ; petals a little longer 
than the linear filaments, with which in 
theii' whole length they are united into a 
tube, at last free to the middle ; their apex 
with two or tliree teeth ; anthers oblong- 
linear, yellow ; styles united into a single 
one, bristle-like, not twisted; stigmas 
joined ; capsule very short-stalked, broad- 
ovate ; fiinicl. s partially long, seeds round- 
{sh-hidney-shaped, hrownisk, with a few 
series of minute pits at their back. 
On gi’assy flats along the Victoria River and 
in other parts of Aimhem’s La^d. 
A beautiful annual herb, varying in height 
from I to 3 feet. The leaves rarely above 
1 incli long, and 2 lines broad, frequently 
shorter and narrower. Peduncles and 
pedicels silky-velvety, grey. Bracts lan- 
ceolate-navicular, very acute, ciliolhte. 
Sepals white, brown-red, or dark-purple, 
3-4 lines long. Corolla hyaliuous, half as 
long as the calyx, by the accrescent cap- 
sule more or less deeply separated into its 
petals. Staminodia none. Capsule stiff, 
1^"' long, with few or several seeds, 
which are opaque and about i long. 
Far the largest at least of all the Australian 
species. 
Polycaipcea spirostylis, (Sect. Aylmeria.) 
An herb quite smooth, erect, -with many 
branches; leaves narrow-linear, by the 
revolute margins filiform, niucrouulate ; 
sti])uls lanceolate-linehr, setaceous-acumi- 
nate. entire ; flowers croAvded, cvmose, on 
sliort pedicels ; bracts lanceolate one- 
nerved ; sepals somewhat xinequal in 
length, Avhitc, quite scarious, narrow-lan- 
ceolate, gi'adually pointed, one-nerA*ed ; 
petals acute, shorter than the extremely 
thin filamentsy with the lower portion of 
which they are joint conspicuously into 
a tube; anthers oval, bluish; styles con- 
nected in a single tripterous oney which is 
spiralli/ twisted; capsule conspicuously 
stalked, narrow, long, gradually tapering 
into the apex ; funieles short. 
In tropical Australia. 
An herb from a Anger’s to a span length. 
Leaves 3-8'" long, with a deciduous mucro. 
Bracts about 2'" long. Sepals measui’ing 
3-4 lines. Corolla reddish, scai’cely reach- 
ing beyond the middle of the calyx. 
Staminodia none. Capsules about 2Ty'long. 
Style of the same length. Ripe seeds not 
yet found. 
Polycarpcea slaminodina. (Sect. Kataxera.) 
An annual herb, downy, branched, erect ; 
inferior leaves linear-lanceohito, supcrioi^ 
ones linear, all mucronulate, their margins 
scarcely rcvolute;stipAileslanceolate-Hacar, 
setaceo-acuminatc ; cymes dense; sepals 
small, linear -lanceolate, gradually drawn 
out into a long acumen, nearly nerveless, 
quite scarious ; petals lanceolate, entire, 
longer than the filaments, only towards 
the base connate with each other and with 
the stamens, at last free ; anthers nearly 
