STENOPETALUM.

CRUCIFERAE.

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lineari-oblongis integerrimis; racemis florentibus abbreviatis; pedicellis calycebrevioribus demum cernuis; petalis sepala duplo superantibus (croceis); ovario

8-ovulato; silicula. IO - Crescit in Nova Hollandia ad portum Princcss

Royal Harbour.

f /cortes addendae.

ST. RODUSTUM Endl. — Ilook. Icon, piant, t. 610.

ST. LINEARE R. Br. — Hook. 1. c. t. 618.

4021. EIDEM,t II. B. Iilb,

(DC. Trodr. I. 201. — Wlprs. llepert. bol. syst. I. 174.*)

1. EU. GRAND1FLORA Planchon in Hook. Lond. journ. of bot. III. 620. t t. 21.—Rhizomate simplici brevi; foliis linearibus glaberrimis conferiis, basi dilatatis;pedicellis solitariis brevibus occultis; petalis semipollicaribus; siliculis oblongis15-20-spcrmis. 2 ). — Plunta humilis, glaberrima. Rhizoma simplex verticale,1—2—pollicare, apice incrassatum, fasciculum foliorum edens, inferno attenuatum,sublignosum, albidum, squamis brevibus scariosis, foliorum vetustorum vestigiisarcte vestitum. Folia primo aspectu monocotyledoneam referentia, basibus dila-tatis scarioso-membranaccis, imbricatim adpressis, vix pseudo-bulbum cfficcn-tia, hinc erecto-palenlia, oblongo-linearia, l'A poli, longa, 2-3 lin. lata, integer-rima obtusa crassiuscula, obsolete trinervia. Flores pro planta magni albi, e fas-ciculo foliorum emergentes; pedicelli solitarii uniflores axillares, folio mullo bre-viores et ideo florentes occulti. 2(. — Crescit in Andium Peruvianarum monte Asnay.

4021/!. ME\KEA Lehm.

(Lehm. Indx. semin. hort. Hamburg. 1843. p. 8. — Unge, in Lehm. Piant. Preiss. 1.259.)

Sepala 4 obovata patula, basi aequalia. Petala 4 calycem aequantia un-guiculata obovato-oblonga integra. Stamina (1 tetradynama inclusa. Glan-dulae hypogynae. Ovarium suborbiculatum, stigmate sessili. Silicula sessilisobovato-oblonga, utrinque subacutata plano - compressa bivalvis, septo admarginem angustissimum reducto, unilocularis. Valvae uninerviac reticu-lato-venosae. Placentae inclusae filiformes. Semina minutissima in funi-culis setaceis elongatis in toto placentarum ambitu horizontalibus numerosaquadriscriata suborbiculata immarginata, striatim verruculosa. Cotyledonesincumbentes. — Herba Novae Hollandine annua habitu omnino Draiamvernam, referens.

1. M. AUSTRALIS Lehm. I. c. — Bngo l.c. *f —Caules 1— 3-pollicores plures c ra-dice simplici, exili, simplices vel ramo aucti, oligophylli. Folia radicalia obovato-spalhulala integerrima, caulinum unum altcrumve, rarius plura, spathulato-ob-longa, in petiolum brevem angustata. Racemi pauci (6-7) flori ebracteali laxi.Flores fugaces suaveolentes, minutissimi, 0,5'" longi lalique, pedunculati. Sepalaobovata. Petala alba aculiuscula, calycem vix excedentia! Anlhcrae pallide vio-laceae. Stigma sessile bilobum. Pedunculi fructiferi laxi elongati, 4-5'" longi,filiformes. Silicula 2,5'" longa supra medium 1,3'" lata, basin versus angustata,apice stigmate sessili subacutata, facillime dehiscens; valvis delapsis persistuntplacentae, latere interiore tenuissimum marginem hyalinum, dissepimenli rudi-mentum, gerentes et funiculis horizontalibus inaequilongis numerosis (ultra 50)quasi fimbriatae. Semina 0,1'" lata, paullo longiora, rufula, verruculoso — striata,4- vel pluriseriata. — Cotyledones stricte incumbentes. — Crescit in Nova Hol-landia australi.

Tribus IX. LEPIDINEAE .

4930. EtXOllll DC.

(DC. Prodr. 1, 208. — Wlprs. Repert. bot. syst. I- 175.)

1. EU. MOUICANDIANA Boiss. Diagn. p1. nov. orient. V. 83. — Glabra glaucescens:caulibus sulTruticosis prostratis nudis; ramis paucis brevibus foliosis; foliis oppo-sitis remoliusculis subsessilibus ovato—rotundis, supremis paullo amplioribus,V. G