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tenclentia abbrcviata, vag-ina aperta ipsum folium siiperanlc; floralia subspatbiforniia scd foliacca iicc nienibranacea. Tas- cicuU pauciflori : spiculac cum pcdunculo brevissiino ar- ticulatse et sohibilcs, ct subtensa) bractea nervosa carinata ejusdem circiter longitudinis. Gbima bivalvis biflora, ner- vosa, acuta, mutica ; valvula3 sul)oocpiales septemncrvia3 ; exterioris nervis tribus axiu occupantibus scd distinctis reliquis per paria a margiuibus ct axilibus subocquidistanti- bus ; interioris nervis a^quidistantibus, cxternis margin! approximatis. Perianthium inferius (exterius), bivalve neutrum ; valvula exterior septemncrvis, exteriori ghnna^ similis textura forma et longitudinc ; valvula interior (superior) angustior panloque brevier, dinervis, nervis alatis marginibus veris latis induplicatis. Perianthium supcrius hermaphroditum, paulo brcvius, pergamineo-mcmbrana- ceum, nervis dilute viridibus ; valvula exterior quinque- nervis, acuta, concava ; interior ejusdem fere longitudinis, dinervis. Stamina 3, filamentis linearibus. Ovarium ob- longum, imberbe. Styli duo. Stigmata plumosa, pallida ? Obs. Neuraclme paradoxa, founded on a single specimen, imperfect [_in its leaves and stem, but sufficiently complete in its parts of fructification, differs materially in habit from the original species, N. alopccuroidea, as avcII as from N. Mitchell iana of Nees, while these two species differ widely from each other in several important points of structure.

��In undertaking to give some account of the more re- [w markable plants of Captain Sturt's collection, it was my intention to have entered in some detail into the general character of the vegetation of the interior of xVustralia, south of the Tropic.

I am now obliged to relinquish my original intention, so far as relates to detail, but shall still ofier a few general remarks on the subject.

These remarks will probably be* better undei stood if I refer, in the first place, to some observations published in 1814, in the Botanical Appendix to Captain Plinders's

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