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620 HALORAGIDACEAE. [| Haloragis. 
1. HALORAGIS Forst. 476. 
Krect or procumbent branching wiry herbs, sometimes almost woody 
at the base. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire or toothed or lobed, 
Flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite, minute, axillary, solitary or clustered, 
often spicate or racemose, Calyx-tube 4-8-angled or winged ; lobes 4, 
erect, persistent. Petals 4, cucullate acute eariarsons often =~ 
the female * 
celled ; o 
plumose 
nut, som 
either sm 
About 
in New Cal 
America (J1 
to be endei 
Tall, erect, | 
crowded, 
Erect, 6-12 
Flowers c 
Suberect or 
Fruit ovoi 
cate 
Procumbent 
the floral ; 
ribs rugoge 
Rhizome cree 
4-4 in,, the 
Spaces bet 
Rhizome cree ” 
lanceolate, 
ribbed, int 
Stems creepii 
long erect 
bracts. Fr 
l. H. e1 
branching | =. 
Leaves oppt _ petiolate, variablé in size, 3-3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate 
to oblong-lanceolate, rarely elliptic, coarsely and sharply serrate, acute or 
acuminate. Flowers minute, solitary or clustered in leafy racemes termina- 
ting the branches ; pedicels short, curved, drooping. Calyx-tube 4-angled ; 
lobes small, broad. Petals more than twice as long as the calyx-lobes.. 
Stamens 8; anthers broadly linear. Fruit rather small, +,in. long, ovoid, 
with 4 ribs more or less dilated into wings, interspaces smooth or rugose. 
Seeds 4.—H, alata Jacq. Ic. Plant. Rar. i (1781) 7, t. 69; Forst, f. Prodr, 
(1786) n. 180; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 65; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
65; Benth. Fl. Austral. ii (1864) 479; T. Kirk Students’ FL (1899) 148; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 148. Cercodia erecta Murr. in Comm. Goitting. 
ii (1780) 3, t.1. ©. alternifolia A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 527. 
KERMADEC Istanps, Norra anp SovrH IsLANDS, CHATHAM ISLANDS, STEWART 
IsLanp; Abundant, especially in lowland districts, Sea-level to 2500 ft. Z'oatoa. 
November—January, Also in Chile and on the Island of Juan Fernandez. The 
Australian plant formerly referred to the species is now considered to be distinct. 
(A. exalata F, Muell,). ~- . 
