rth-east.
44)
45) From the Depot Glen.
46)
47}} From the Plains to the north of the Red Hill, Mount Poole.
48}}
49) From various parts of the Depot Glen, and the Range with which it is
50) connected. This Range is separated from the main ranges, but still
51) occupies the eastern side of the high land, running between the eastern
52) and western waters.
53)
54)
55 From the summit of the Red Hill, Mount Poole.
56) From the base of the same hill.
57)
58 From the summit (2nd specimen).
59 From the plains north of the Depot.
60 From the plains.
BOTANICAL APPENDIX ROBERT BROWN, ESQ., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., &C.
My friend, Captain Sturt, having placed at my disposal the Collection of
Plants formed in his recent Expedition into the Southern Interior of
Australia, I am desirous of giving some account of the principal
novelties it contains.
The collection consists of about one hundred species, to which might be
added, if they could be accurately determined, many other plants, chiefly
trees, slightly mentioned in the interesting narrative, which is about to
appear, and to which the present account will form an Appendix. I may
also observe, in reference to the limited number of species, that Captain
Sturt and his companion, Mr. Brown, seem to have collected chiefly those
plants that appeared to them new or striking, and of such the collection
contains a considerable proportion.
In regard too to such forms as appear to constitute genera hitherto
undescribed, it greatly exceeds the much more extensive herbarium,
collected by Sir Thomas Mitchell in his last expedition, in which the
only two plants proposed as in this respect new, belong to genera already
well established, namely, Delabechia to Brachychiton, and Linschotenia to
Dampiera.
In Captain Sturt's collection, I have been obliged, from the incomplete
state of the specimens, to omit several species, probably new, from the
following account, in which the plants noticed, chiefly new genera and
species, are arranged according to the order of families in the Prodromus
of De Candolle.
BLENNODIA.
Cruciferarum genus, prope Matthiolam.
CHAR. GEN.--Calyx clausus, foliolis lateralibus basi saccatis. Petala
aequalia, laminis obovatis. Stamina: filamentis edentulis. Ovarium
lineare. Stylus brevissimus. Stigma bilobum dilatatum. Siliqua linearis
valvis convexiusculis, stigmate coronata, polysperma. Semina aptera pube
fibroso-mucosa tecta! Cotyledones inc
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