Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
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88<br />
Amicus prasdoctus Th. Anderson in dissertatione sua eximia<br />
de Acanthaceis Indicis (Journal of the Linnean Society 1867,<br />
425-526), dum genera e materiis ditissimis refudit, in Hygrophilis<br />
stamina tam duo quam quatuor adraisit. Secundum eandem nor-<br />
mam nunc genus Earliae supprimo. Soliditas tamen capsula basalis<br />
nostram plantam in cohortem Justiciearum movit. Ceterum stirps<br />
nostra eodem jure ad Thyrsacanthum, adspectu haud dissimilem<br />
trahi possit, etiamsi Thyrsacanthus Indicus locum inter Asystasias<br />
bene accepit. Dispositio Acanthacearum totius mundi, quam<br />
Neesius verbis admodum elegantibus logicisque efficit, si materias<br />
viro lucido et sedulissimo offertas contemplavimus, semper miranda<br />
manet.<br />
A Nelsonia campestri (Br. Pr. 480; Endl. Iconogr. 79), quae in<br />
Australia septentrional! haud infrequens, Nelsoniam tomentosam<br />
fortasse haud spécifiée removeré possumus.<br />
Ebermaiera glauca (Nées in Cand. Prodr. xi. 73) viget in<br />
terra Arnhemica.<br />
Hygrophila angnetifolia obvenit per magnam Australia) orientalis<br />
partem.<br />
Dicliptera armata.<br />
Herbácea, foliis angnsto- v. lineari-lanceolatisbreviter petiolatis,<br />
umbellis verticiilato-capitatis, bracteis basalibus lineari-subulatis<br />
pungentibus, valvaribus rotundo-rhombeis mucronato-acuminatis,<br />
Capsula disperma, seminibus lasvibus.<br />
Ad originem fluvü Victorias, nee non ad rivum Stirling's Creek ;<br />
F. M. Ad flumen Glenelg's River ; J. Martin (46).<br />
Herba forsan annua, pluripedalis, debilis, erecta. Radix albida,<br />
contorta v. flexuosa, fibrillas longas tonuissimas producens. Caulis<br />
opposite ramosus, cum ramis prominule sexangulatus, lasvis, glaber,<br />
basi interdum procumbens et radicans. Folia in geniculis opposita,<br />
teñera, saltern basin versus cum petiolis pilosula, 1-3" longa,<br />
2-6" lata, margine scabriuscula. Umbellae composite fasciculares,<br />
axillares et terminales ; interiores breviter, exteriores brevissime<br />
peduneulatas, bracteis usque ad 4'" longis patentissimis armatas.<br />
Umbellulas bracteis 2 valvaribus involucellatae, binas usque quinas,<br />
subsessiles, uni-trifloras, flore único tantum evoluto, secundo<br />
tertioque rudimentoriis, rarissime perfectis. Bracteas involucellum<br />
constituentes appressas, planiusculas, 4-6"' metientes, venis anasto-<br />
mosantibus percursas, uninerviae, extus glandulis consperssö et<br />
brevissime pubescentes, intus fere glabras, margine parce ciliatas.<br />
Calyx 5-partitus, breve et dense glanduloso-pubescens, 1|" longus,<br />
brevissime pedicellatus, basi bibracteolatus ; lacinias erectas, lineari-<br />
subulatas ; Ínfima paulo major. Bracteolas lineari-setaceas, linea<br />
breviores. Corolla saturatius rosea, torsione resupinata, bilabiata;<br />
labium resupinatione superum adscendeus, semipollicare, 3 '" latum,<br />
fere ovatum, inferne sensim angustatum, apice recurvum et breviter