Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/547

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522 APPENDi?. other portions of the calyx; and should this g?ms be adopted by future botanists, a second species has been re- cently discovered upon Dirk Hartog's Island, although of remarkably ditferent habit. Cleoms has been observed only in the equinoctial parts of Australia, and like Capparis, several species exist on the North-west Coast, being limited to C. viscosa in New ?onth Wales. Drosera, whieh Jussieu aseoeintes with these genera is gensrally difi?used, being found within the tropic, at En- denyour River, and on the North-west Coast; at Port Jackson, and at the southern extremes of Van Diemen's Land. DILLSWI&C?tW-.?To that Aust?"a?an jmrtion of the order lately enumerated by M. Decandolle, the present Herbarium o?era, in addition, only two species of the genus Hemi- ateroma of M. Du Petit Thouurn. The one discovered on the North-west Coast, and allied to H. angusfifolium of Mr. Brown; the other proving also new, but approaching in charaoter'the doubtful species, H. Lechenaultii of X)acau- 'dolle, and was discovered upon Rottnest Island, off the western coast of the continent, end is the first c?rtsin species of the genus, that is not limited to n tropical existence. In addition to what hu been advanced in respect to cer- tain natural orders that appear in the Herbarium, formed under the stated circumstances, a slight mention might be made of other detached genera, or families sparingly served on these coasts, that were more particularly inves- tigated during the progress of the late voyages; but as these several plants form portions of orders so extremely limited,