Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 . over ourunfortunate mefs-mate. The Commodore ordered guns to be fired everyhalf hoar, to enable Hiche^ if flill alive, to dircd:his fl:eps with the more certainty towards the an-choring place. The wind favoured us, and, in a fliort time, wemade good our landing. After having advanced into the country, indifferent diredlions, we returned to the landingplace, on the approach of night. We traverfed a track wholly covered with fand,where we found extenfive fpaces abfolutel
Voyage in search of La Pérouse : performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794 . over ourunfortunate mefs-mate. The Commodore ordered guns to be fired everyhalf hoar, to enable Hiche^ if flill alive, to dircd:his fl:eps with the more certainty towards the an-choring place. The wind favoured us, and, in a fliort time, wemade good our landing. After having advanced into the country, indifferent diredlions, we returned to the landingplace, on the approach of night. We traverfed a track wholly covered with fand,where we found extenfive fpaces abfolutely defli -tute of vegetables. But I favv with furprize, enthofe diflant fliores, the grafs known by the nameqIfpmifc%fquarrofus ; and thus had a new and anadmirable inftancc of the facility with whichplants, which grow on the feafhore, diffufe them-fehes to prodigious diflances. In thofe arid wafles, grows a fine plant whichnearly refembles the im, and which naturallyclaffes itfelf with the genera dilatrh and argoJaJia,It forms, however, a nev/ and a very diflindl ge-nus, principally by its irregular corolla. , • I have. ,.7Vn caez^r /^ t/u\) : A a/c f Dec.] -^OF la PEROItSE. 405 i have delineated it under the name of anigo^zantJios. Its flowers have no calix. The corolla has the form of a tube, the edgesof which are divided into fix unequal parts recur-vated inwards. It is covered with reddiih pili. I The ftamina, which are fix in number, are in-ferted under the divifions of the corolla, which isplaced upon the ovarium. The llyle is fimple, as well as the ftigma. The capfule is nearly fpherical, and of thefame colour with the flower by w^hich it is fur-mounted. It has three cells filled with a greatnumber of angular feeds. The top of the ftalk is covered with reddiflipili, like the flowers. I have denominated this fpecies antgozantliosrufa. Explanation of the Figures, Plate XXIL Fig. 1. The 2. The flower. Fig. 3. The flower divided longitudinally, andexpanded, in
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