lonidium-^ 



X. VIOLAllIE.'E. • 103 



) 



) 



lower stamens shortly spurred at the base.— F. Muell. TL Vict. i. 68, t. suppL 8 ; 

 rigeajloribunda, LinclL in Mitch. Three Expect, ii. 165 ; /. anstralasia, Behr. 

 in Lmnsea, xx. 629 ; /. muWJhrum, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. 340. 



N, S. Wales. Eurylean scrub, A. Cunningham, 

 ^ Victoria. Barren ridges and low stony and rocky ranges iu the vicinity oi the Murnty 

 nvcr and its lower tributaries, F. Mueller; towards the Australian Pyrenees, Mitchell. 



S. Australia. Not rare through the scrubby lowlands and mountain tracts from 

 truichcn Bay to Spencer's Gulf, F, Mueller, and others. 



^v. Australia. South coast ?, Brummond, supplement to 5th Coll. u. 72, Harvey. 



5. I. Vernonii, F. Muell. PL FicL I 223. Glabrous, with erect, slen- 

 tlcr, but stiff stems, little branched, except at the base, and usually about 1 



flifi 



Leaves all alter- 



nate, linear or narrow-lanceolate, rarely above 1 in; long, and the upper ones 

 j^uch suialler and very narrow. Peduncles 1-flowered, as in/, spffruticosumy 



i , "^^ ^"^^y in the upper axils, and the upper ones longer than the small floral 



leaves, so as to form a terminal leafy raceme. Plo^vers blue, very uujch like 

 those of Z fiUforme^ the lower petal of the same shape and size, except that 

 the claw is distinctly spurred at the base, and the lateral petals are more 



' obtuse than in that species ; stamens the same, except that the subulate ap- 



pendages at the top of the anther-cells are still more minute. 



W, S. Wales- Port Jackson, Anderson, IF. Vernon, Ifoolls. lu the interior?, Leich- 

 harrH ; Twofold Bay, F, Mueller. 



Victoria. Barren plains and ridges near the Genoa river, F. Mueller. Specimens of 

 this species are included by Do Candollc amongst those named by him Fujea filiformis ; the 

 ; t"'0 species are often mixed on the same sheet in the Paris and other Herbaria. 



,6. I. filiforme, F, Mudl. TL Fid. i. 66. A perfectly glabrous herb, 

 said by some collectors to be annual, but certainly iu many instances forming 

 ^ perennial rootstock. Stems slender, but stiff and wiry, simple or branched, 

 usually 1 to 2 ft, liigh, but when eaten down, sending up numerous short 

 erect branches. Leaves alternate or the upper ones opi)osite, narrow-linear, 

 ^^Jostly 1 to 2 in. long, entu'C, the lowest ones shorter, broader, and petiolate. 

 Flowers blue, in slender leafless racemes, on terminal or axillary peduncles, 

 «dways much longer than the leaves, the pedicels under a liue long. Sepals 

 shorter than the lateral petals, lanceolate, acute. Lower petal usually 

 f^^lly \ in. long, ovate, narrowed into a concave claw, saccate at the base, 

 but varying considerably in size and breadth; lateral petals broadly 

 falcate, acute, about 2 lines long ; upper ones smaller. Anthers with an 

 orange ovate appendage at the top of the connective, and two minute subu- 

 late appendages on the cells themselves ; the 2 lowest have also a small glan- 

 dular protuberance on the back at their base.— -P/y^a //(/bm/s, DC. Prod. 



^- 307 ; L Imarloides, Presl, Bot. Bm. 13. * 



Queensland, Morcton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser ; Glasbhonse ridges, F. Mueller. 



N. S. MTales. Common about Port Jackson, R. Brown and others, and northward io 



iVew England, aseending to 5000 ft., and Clareuec and Hastings rivers, ^eckler, and bouih- 



^■*vd to the limits of the colony. ,.,,,- • r- . 



Victoria. Dry, erassy, or scniLby rid-^es near the Avon and Mitchell rivers m bippa 

 I-and, F, Mueller: .- • t^p p i • 



/. monopetalum, Rccm. and Schult. Syst. i. 400 {Plgea monopetala, Gmg. m u^. i roa.x. 

 307; Solea monopetala, Spreng. Syst. i. 801), de^^cribcJ from a single specimen of unceitam 

 ^"gm, iu Kecmer'a Herbarium, can only refer to the present species. 



