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Systematik und Pflanzengeographie: 
Brown, N. E., Nephthytis picturata n. sp. (The Gardeners 1 Chronicle. Ser. 
III. Yol. I. 1887. p. 476.) 
Chatin, Les plantes montagnardes de la flore parisienne. R6sume de la II 
partie. (Comptes rendus des seances de l’Acad^mie des Sciences de Paris. 
T. CIY. 1887. No. 8.) 
CrGpin, Francois, Nouvelles remarques sur les Roses americaines. (Comptes 
rendus des seances de la Societe royale de botanique de Belgique a Bru¬ 
xelles. 1887. p. 43.) 
Finger, L., Beitrag zur Flora von Lessen und Umgegend. (Bericht über die 
IX. Jahresversammlung des westpreussischen botanisch-zoologischen Ver¬ 
eins zu Schlochau 1886. p. 108.) 
Kalmnss, F., Ergebnisse botanischer Excursionen aus dem Jahre 1885. (1. c. 
p. 38.) 
Liitzow, C., Bericht über botanische Excursionen im Neustädter, Karthäuser, 
Berenter und Danziger Kreise. (1. c. p. 94.) 
Mueller, Baron Ferd. v., Notes on Australian Plants. [Continued.] (Re- 
printed from „The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia“. 1887. February 
and March.) 
[Templetonia Battii. 
Glabrous; branchlets rigid, very spreading, cylindrical, spinescent; 
leaves none; flowers solitary or two together, very small, nearly sessile ; 
bractlets much connate, very short, rounded-blunt; lower lobe of the 
calyx lanceolar-semiovate, the four other lobes deltoid and shorter, 
the two uppermost the smallest but distinct, all slightly ciliated; 
upper petal about twice as long as the calyx, almost renate, some- 
what exceeding the others; anthers roundish and ovate; style thick, 
very short; fruit almost elliptical, slightly pointed, not stipitate; valves 
rather convex; seeds ripening one or two, darkgreenish; strophiole 
pale, fringed. — Near Eucla; D. Batt. 
This species differs from T. egena principally in its short pungent 
and divergent, also less furrowed branchlets, in not spicate and some- 
what smaller flowers, in the upper petal being comparatively broader, 
in shorter less slender style, in rather smaller less oblique fruits and 
in seeds of much less size, the strophiole however being quite as large, 
with longer lobes. As regards carpologic characteristics our new species 
comes nearer to T. sulcata; but the ovary is often six-ovulate, and 
the strophiole deeply cleft into narrow lobes. Irrespective of this the 
branchlets are less elongated and not broadly compressed, by which 
means the aspect of the plant becomes very different. 
T. egena was gathered during Mr. Lindsay’s last survey-expedition 
by Lieutenant Dittrich on the Alberga; on the Upper Ashburton- 
river, by the Chevalier Ernest Giles; on the Finke River, by Rev. 
H. Kempe; on the Lachlan River, by F. v. Mue 11er. In habit lt 
resembles Comesperma scoparium. 
T. aculeata was found on the Flinders-Ranges by Professor Tate; 
between the Lachlan and Darling-rivers by Mr. G. Day. 
T. Muelleri was collected between the Loddon and Campaspe by 
Mr. Nancarrow; at Kingdon-Ponds by Miss H. Carter; on the 
Macquarrie-River, by Mr. Betche; on the Loddon, by Mr. D Alton; 
on the Logan-River, by the Rev. B. Scortechini. 
T. sulcata occurs on the Irwin River (F. von Mueller). 
T. retusa was brought from Yorke’s Peninsula by Dr. Schmid, 
from Venus Bay by Mr. T. Clo de. It occurs with very pale flowers 
(J. E. Brown) and with fruits fully 3 inches long. 
Nematophyllum Hookeri cannot be included in the genus Temple¬ 
tonia on account of its compound often trifoliate leaves and the form 
of its calyx. It has been brought from Eva-Downs by Lieut. Dittrich. 
