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purple flowers about V long, numerous in bracted terminal panicles. [Gold- 

 fussio colorata Nees.] 



Strobilanthes isophyllus (Nees) T. Anders., NARROW-LEAVED STROBI- 

 LANTHES, also East Indian, about 2 high, with linear-lanceolate leaves 4'-8' 

 long and panicled bluish flowers was grown at the Public Garden, St. Georges, 

 in 1912. 



Fittonia argyroneura E. Coem., WHITE-VEINED FITTONIA, of western 

 South America, commonly grown in green houses, and less successfully on rock 

 work, is- a pubescent perennial, with spreading or trailing branches, and 

 broadly ovate rounded entire leaves 2'-3' long, rather dark green, and con- 

 spicuously white-veined; the yellowish flowers of this plant are borne in pe- 

 duncled narrow bracted spikes, the slender corolla with a long narrow lip. 



Under the name Cyrtantliera rosea, Lefroy records a plant of this family 

 grown in gardens at St. George 's and at Mt. Langton, where it was brought 

 from Ireland in 1874; I have been unable to identify this, there being no pub- 

 lished species of that name. 



Family 14. MYOPORACEAE Lindl. 

 MYOPORUH FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate or opposite, entire stipulate leaves, 

 and perfect, more or less irreg'ular flowers, solitary or clustered in the 

 axils. Calyx inferior, 5-parted. Corolla gamopetalous, its limb 2-lippecl 

 or oblique. Stamens 4, mostly didynamous, borne on the corolla-tube, the 

 filaments filiform. Ovary usually 2-celled ; style terminal ; stigma terminal 

 and small; ovules 1 in each ovary-cavity. Fruit a drupe. Five genera 

 and 80 species or more, mostly Australian, only the following American. 



Bontia daphnoides L., BONTIA, West Indian, a shrub or low tree, grow- 

 ing in 1913 in a garden in Smith's Parish, has lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire somewhat fleshy, short-petioled acute faintly veined leaves 3 '-4' long, 

 and peduncled flowers solitary in the upper axils, the peduncles longer than the 

 petioles; the obconic calyx, about 2V' long, has 5 ovate acute ciliate lobes; 

 the yellowish, purple-mottled corolla is nearly 1' long, tubular, 2-lipped, the 

 upper lip nearly straight, the lower shorter and reflexed, pilose within, the 

 longer pair of stamens a little exserted; its yellowish drupe is about 2' long. 



Family 15. PHRYMACEAE Schauer. 

 LOPSEED FAMILY. 



An erect perennial herb with divaricate branches, opposite membranous 

 simple leaves, and small irregular purplish flowers, distant in slender 

 elongated spikes. Calyx cylinclric, 2-lipped; upper lip 2-cleft, the teeth 

 setaceous; lower lip much shorter, 3-toothecl, the teeth subulate. Corolla- 

 tube cylinclric, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip erect, concave, emarginate; 

 lower lip larger, spreading, convex, 3-lobed, the lobes obtuse. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, included. Ovary oblique, 1-celled; ovule 1, orthotropous, as- 

 cending; stvle slender; stigma 2-lobed. Calyx reflexed in fruit, enclosing 

 the dry achene, becoming prominently ribbed, closed and its teeth hooked 

 at the ends Cotyledons convolute; radicle superior. Consists of the 

 following 



