Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
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alta, intus dense barbata, extus glabra, cum filamentis capillaribus<br />
decidua. Anthera? secedeutes, introrsa?, obovato-oblonga?, dorsi-<br />
fixae, J" longa?, flava? ; loculi parallel]', longitudinaliter dehiscentes.<br />
Stylus terminalis, capillaris, 11•2** longus, glaber. Stigma minutis-<br />
simum. Germen uuiloculatum, unigemmulatum. Gemmula e basi<br />
cavitatis erecta. Fructus glabratus, evalvis, indebiscens, basi<br />
disco annulari glabro cinctus, circiter sesquilineam altus, obovatus,<br />
striolatus, stylo terminatus. Pericarpium membraneum. Semen<br />
erectum, obovatum, turgens, 1'" longum v. paulo longius, cavitatem<br />
explens. Testa tenerrime membranea, albida, glabra. Raphe longi-<br />
tudiualis. Albumen satis copiosum, amygdalinum. Embryo in<br />
axi albuminis situs et eidem •quilongus, rectus, amygdalinus.<br />
Cotyledones plano-convexa?, ovales, |•§'" longa?. Radicula infera,<br />
ovato-cylindrica, cotyledonibus fere dimidior brevior.<br />
Fructus characteres nunc primum expositi genus ab Amaran-<br />
taceis demovent. Ob carpidium unicum Lachnostacbis approximat<br />
Waltheria?, ob folia opposita Lasiopetalo. Genus autem proprium<br />
tribuui (Lachnostachyarum) présentât.<br />
Lachnostachys ferruginea ( Hook. Ic. Plant. 415 ; Moq. in Cand.<br />
Pr. xiii. sect. ii. 298) ab antecedente distinguitur indumento bre-<br />
viore magis velutino, foliis multo minoribus planis, bracteis dila-<br />
tatis, dentibus calycis minus acutis, autheris dorso glandulosis.<br />
Lachnostachys albicans (Hook. Ic. 414) occurrit in collectione<br />
Drummondi sub 439.<br />
Lachnostachys Walcottii (F. M. Fr. ii. 140 ; Pycnolachne ledi-<br />
folia, Turcz. Bull. Mose, xxxvi. 214) militât sub 219 et 220 in<br />
collectione sexta Drummondi. Folia iis Guichenotia? ledifolia?<br />
similia.<br />
THTMELEJE.<br />
Pimelia Holroydii.<br />
(Sect. Heterol•na).<br />
Ramulis cum foliis et involucro glabris, foliis oppositis ovalibus<br />
fere sessilibus herbaceis glaucis majuseulis planis obtusis, bracteis<br />
involucrantibus 4-6 ovato- v. cordato-orbiculatis, capitulis termi-<br />
nalibus multifloris, axi cylindraceo elongato villoso, floribus bi-<br />
sexualibus, calycibus flavidis extus villosis basi serieeis haud<br />
articulatis, tubo lobis quater quinquiesve longiore, drupa parva<br />
sicca glabra conico-attenuata.<br />
In montibus Hammersley-Rauge ; C. Harper (16).<br />
Planta circiter 3' alta. Ramuli teretiusculi, pallide flavidi.<br />
Folia f-15" longa, tenuiter uninervia, tenuissime venosa. Bractea?<br />
glaucediue foliorum participes, |•f* longa?. Axis pollicaris v.<br />
brevior, pedicellis brevissimis tuberculatus, molli-villosus. Calyx<br />
semipollicaris. Stamina breviter exserta. Anthera? fere ovata?,<br />
§"' longa?, recurva?. Drupa ovato-conica, sensim rostrata, parte