Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
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Parsonsia diaphanophleba (F. M. Fr. ii. 158) est planta Drum-<br />
mondi 225.<br />
Parsonsia eucalyptophylla (F. M. Fr. ii. 159) a fluviis Darling's<br />
et Lachlan's River usque ad flumen Flindersii extendit. Folia<br />
in varietatibus modo elliptica, modo lanceolato-ovata. Corollas<br />
semipollicares.<br />
Parsonsia ventricosa (F. M. in Transact. Phil. Inst. Vict. ii. 71)<br />
Novam Angliam intrat. Liber tenax. Pedicelli semipollicares v.<br />
breviores. Corolla) lobi statu valde juvenili tortuli, expansione<br />
intus albi. Fructus ignoti. Illustris Asa Gray plantam ad Lyonsias<br />
duxit. Forsan novi generis (Gastrantlii) typus.<br />
Parsonsia velutina (Br. Pr. 466) a fluvio Hastings-River vergit<br />
usque Promontorium Cape York. Folia semipedalia v. breviora,<br />
varietatis glabrioris subtus punctato-scabrida. Petioli \-i" longi.<br />
Cymse confertifloras, fere capitata). Corolla intus sordide alba ;<br />
lobi asstivatione imbricad. Coma pallide fusca, semine utrinque<br />
acutato vix duplo paulove loiigior. Placentae 2 membraneae, dis-<br />
tinctas, pagina scilicet supera seminigeraa. Folia nonnunquam<br />
utroque margine sinu intrusa.<br />
LOGANIACE^E.<br />
Gardncria fagr•acea.<br />
Glabra, foliis in apice ramulorum confertis oppositis lanceolatis<br />
vel ovato-lanceolatis brevi-acuminatis opacis indistincte nervosis<br />
et venosis, pedunculis terminalibus trifloris v. cymoso-paucifloris,<br />
bracteis fere deltoideis, bracteolis semiovatis, calycibus quinque-<br />
lobis, baccis ovatis mono- v. dispermis.<br />
In silvis ad sinum Rockingham's Bay ; Dallachy. Planta ad-<br />
spectu Fagraaoe.<br />
Ramuli tantum apicem versus foliati, cetero spatio aphylli.<br />
Folia igitur tantum ad illorum extremitatem et ad nodos prove-<br />
nientia, 3-6" longa, lg•2" lata, in petiolum ^-1" longum sensim<br />
desinentia, subtus prominenter uninervia, utrinque nitoris expertia<br />
et subtilissime rugulata, supra minus pallescentia. Petioli ad basin<br />
superficiel in membranam angustam dilatati et hinc excavati.<br />
Pedunculus primarius semuncialis v. brevior v. omnino absens ;<br />
pedunculi secundara angulati, pluri- v. paucilineares. Pedicelli<br />
semiunciales v. breviores. Bractece et bracteolae vix 1" longa? ;<br />
hae immediate sub calyce sitas vel ab eo remota?. Calyx persistens,<br />
medio tenus lobatus ; lobi rotundati, circiter 1" metientes, imbri-<br />
cad. Corolla et genitalia non exstant. Fructus §-|" longus, coc-<br />
cineus, apiculatus, biloculatus v. altero semine tabescente unilocu-<br />
latus. Pericarpium coriaceum. Semen ovatum, 2-3" longum,<br />
ventre impressum, quo modo sectione transversa renatum. Umbili-<br />
culus ventralis. Testa membranea, fusca, subtilissime reticulata.<br />
Albumen recens fere amygdalinum, exsiccatione magis corneum.