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Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.

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In locis udis ad sinum Rockingham's Bay. Dallachy.<br />

Plántula e longinquo Bryum simulans. Folia in verticillis uno<br />

duobusve numerosa, pleraque 2-3" longa, acuta, \-%" lata, margine<br />

scabra. Scapi tenuissimi, lseves, nudi, 1|-2|" longi, Flores<br />

minuti, tantum statu emarcido noti. Lobi calycis circiter \" longi.<br />

Capsula fere 3" longa, tantum semilineam lata, basi sensim con-<br />

tracta.<br />

Accedit ad St. capillare.<br />

SAXIFRAGES.<br />

Quintinia Fawkneri.<br />

Foliis cuneato-oblongis ápice retusis margine anguste recurvis<br />

integerrimis subtus argenteo-canescentibus fuscescentibus et resi-<br />

noso-punctulatis inconspicue venosis, racemis axillaribus simpli-<br />

cibus, pedicellis flore brevioribus aut eidem vix iequilongis, calycis<br />

lobis corolla aliquoties brevioribus deltoideo-semiovatis, germine<br />

quinque-loculato, stigmate quinquelobo.<br />

In silvis montium apud sinum Rockinghami. Dallachy.<br />

Arbor, quantum nota, 60. Cortex albidus, l•vis. Lignum<br />

durum, flavidum. Folia pleraque longitudine \\-2\" et latitudine<br />

|-|" variantia, in petiolum breviusculum sensim abeuntia ; nervus<br />

medianus subtus valde prominens. Racemi 2-3 unciales, pasne<br />

glabri, suaveolentes, multiflori, breviuscule v. breviter pedunculati.<br />

Rachis angulosa, furfuracea. Pedicelli 1-2" longi. Bractea ad<br />

basim pedicelli cordato-semiovata, denique decidua, vix i" longa.<br />

Calyces floriferi vix lineam excellentes ; lobi tubo conspicue bre-<br />

viores. Pétala alba, oblongo-ovata, basi cuneata et truncata, 1 J•2'"<br />

longa. Filamenta lineari-subulata, lineam longa. Anther• ex-<br />

pansae, cordato-ovata?, f" longae. Stylus crassiuscule cylindricus,<br />

le" metiens. Stigmata patenti-recurva. Fructus ignoti.<br />

Specie! grandi Embeliam in memoriam vocanti dabam nomen<br />

venerabilis Joannis Pascoi Fawkner, qui colonias Victoria? primus<br />

fundator, ejus legislatorum senior, ejusdemque progressus circum-<br />

spectus excubitor.<br />

Indumento quasi lepidoto paginas foliorum inferse stirps potius<br />

Q. serratas (A. Cunn. in Taylor's Annals of Nat. Hist. ii. 356 ;<br />

Q. elliptica, J. Hook. Fl. N. Zeal. i. 78) convenit, quam ambabus<br />

aliis Australiae.<br />

PROTEACEJE.<br />

Grevillea singulißora.<br />

(Sect. Plagiopoda.)<br />

Fruticosa, ramulis appresso-pubesceutibus, foliis parvis ovato-<br />

orbicularibus glabris marginatis ex ápice retuso- v. obtuso api-<br />

culatis v. mucronulatis, floribus tfirminalibus solitariis passim

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