t Jussiga.) LI. ONAGRARIEA. 307 
2. J. suffruticosa, Linn. Spec. Pl. 555. An erect branching perennial, 
attaining 2 or 3 ft., the base of the stem often hard and woody, either softly 
 Rürely prominent.—F, Muell. Fragm. iii. 130 ; J. villosa and J. angustifolia 
lam. Diet. iii. 331; DC. Prod iii. 55, 67; J, villosa, W. and Arn. Pro 
| 336, with the synonyms adduced ; J. suffruticosa and J. angustifolia, Griseb. 
4A '. Ind. 273 duced. 
Lizard Island, 
road Sound and Northumberland islands, R. Brown ; 
i in river, Bowman ; Rockhampton, Dal- 
eller. 
vray ; Burnett river, F. Mueller ; Burdekin ri 
n B 
a : 
arence pnd se ; New England, C. Stuart. leren 
common in most tropical countries. The nearly glabrous forms distinguished 
J. angustifolia, seem frequently to pass into the villous ones in most locali- 
aia, the two appear to be equally abundant in Queensland, the villous ones 
common in N, Australia, and the more glabrous ones in N. S. Wales. 
4. LUDWIGIA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube not produced above the ovary ; lobes 4, 5 or rarely 3, persistent 
h deciduous, i 
"om ones (in species not Australian) opposite. Flowers axillary, sessile 
pe ly so, or rarely distinetly pedicellate. Petals usually very small. 
L ng is dispe over the warmer and temperate regions of the globe; the only 
- Species is'a common Asiatic and African one, 
* parvi Bock, Fl. Ind. i. 419. An erect or diffuse glabrous 
ft. high. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, or, in most of the 
ens, linear, entire, 1 to 2 or even 3 in. ong, narrowed into a 
OWers very small, solitary in the axils, sessile or very shortly 
Calyx.tube (or ovary) at the time of flowering, rarely 13 lines 
E yx-lobes, Stamens rather shorter. Stigma large, capitate. 
a9 6 lines long and 1$ lines broad when attaining its full size, but 
- $ Much smaller i 
Victoria river, F, Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong. á 
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