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ovato-lance olatis diu persistentibus, bracteis parvis lanceolato- 
linearibus, calycibus coerulescentibus ante expansionem valde 
angulato-plicatis, lobis calycis acuminatis, petalis perminutis 
rhombeo-orbicularibus, antheris flavis, staminodiis 5 lineari- 
selaceis, carpidiis stellari-hirsutis et setulosis, seminibus haud 
curvatis. 
Ad flumen Robertson’s River, Armit ; ad Gilberfs River, 
Dai ntree. 
Folia 2-4 " longa, §-l§ ,/ lata, subtus cano-virentia, nunquam 
pallidissima. Stipulae 2—3 ;// longae, haud membraneae. Pedunculi 
1- usque pauci-flori. Calyces denique ad semipollieis diametrum 
expandentes. Antherae arcuato-hippocrepicae, oblongae, basi bilobae. 
Filamenta perbrevia, deorsum turgida. Styli in unum coaliti, 
capillares, breves. Fructus calycem aequans. Semina atra, opaca, 
V" longa, minute strophiolata. 
Seringea nephrosperma, F. M. in Hook. Kew Misc. ix. 15, 
genuina tantum a fluviis Victoriae !Iooker’s et Sturt’s Creek nota. 
Planta Stuartii ad sequentem speciem pertinet. 
Seringea integrifolia, F. M. Fragrn. ii. 5, nunc obtenta a 
Champion-Bay (Guerin), Lake Deborah (Harper), Boxvale 
(Wells), MacdonnelTs Range (Giles), Forster’s Range (J. Macd. 
Stuart). Drumm. 61. 
Seringea lanceolata, Steetz 1. c., includere videtur plures plantas 
in FI. Austr. 246 sub Keraudrenia Hookeriana inclusas, foliis 
magnitudine admodum variantibus, supra insigniter rugatis (ut 
Steetz jam dixit) ibique aut glabris aut stellari-pilosis cum v. 
absque glandulis, carpidiis interdum maximis calycem longe su¬ 
perantibus nonnunquam (in silvis ad Rockingham’s Bay) mem- 
braneo-bialatis vel biangulatis fimbriatisque. Tali modo plautae 
in campis ipsis ultra observandae nunc huc tractae a : Nicholson’s 
River (F. M.), Gainsford et Cape’s River (Bovvman), Toowoomba 
(Hartmann), Darling’s Downs (Lau), Pine-River (F. M.), Robiu- 
son’s Range (Leichhardt).—Keraudrenia Hillii in Nova Anglia 
occurrit (C. St.). Setulae aliquot in carpidiis saepe adsunt. 
Seringea platyphylla, J. Gay in Mem. du Mus. vii. 443, t. 16 
et 17, nunc quoque a New England et Moreton’s Bay nota. 
PORTULACEJE. 
Portulaca Armitii. 
(Sect. Siphonopetalum.) 
Glabra, humilis, foliis oppositis cordato-orbiculatis perparvis, 
axillis imberbibus, floribus axillaribus et terminalibus exinvolu- 
cratis solitariis, calycis parte decidua inferne longe tubulosa 
partem persistentem longitudine pluries excedente, petalis pur¬ 
pureis calycem conspicue excedentibus in tubum gracillimum 
