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434 LXI. RUBIACER. [Opercularia. 
4, O. hirsuta, F. Muell. Herb. Erect, with virgate stems of about 
1 ft. quam as well as the foliage with long soft almost silky hairs. Leaves 
few ‘linear, obtuse, 3 to 1 in. long. Flower-heads globular, on erect RK 
, erous small flowers. Odin scarcely so long as the 
hirsute corollas. bates smaller and style shorter than in most ae 
eds oblong-ovoid, obtusely 4-angled, very rugose except the 2 lateral smoo 
angles. 
m Australia. Lucky Bay, Oldfield and Young rivers, Esperance Bay, Maxwell. 
> 5. O. aspera, Gertn. Fruct. i. 119.4. 24. A rather coarse or slender 
species, 1 to 2 ft. long or more, glabrous or scabrous-pubescent, varying. 
vith 
reduced to 1. Seeds ovate, rugose, the inner face much flat E. 
2 ven e smooth ribs, one on each side of the tati on v titi 
—O. paleata, Young in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 30. t. 5; DC. 
0. aja Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. iv. 428. t. wei f£ 33 DO: Lë: 
ueensland. —— river and Moreton Bay, F. Mue and 
N N. S. Wales tany Bay, Banks and Solander ; Por Jackson, R. Brown, 
others; Probl Ba * E Mueller. » Wim 
Victo : e of Genoa River and mouth of Snowy River, F. Mueller ; 
mera, Dallachy scabrous than 
Var. igustrifolia. Leaves lanceolate, acutely appar pue 0 nm ^ € 
in the original f E Dee —O. ligustrifolia, Juss. in Ann. 
€ char. an "yn and fig.) ; C. Prod. v ie O. pieier Sieb. Pl. Exs., ^ scarcely of Jussit 
— Port Jackson to. te Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 251, Woolls, and others. 
2 , Juss. in 
Var. A yssopifolia. Leaves smaller, narrow- D ale and thi erm p ar asa and 
Ann. Mus, Par. ii. 498. t. TI. f. 1; DC. Prod. iv. 616. Queensland D ei aa 
Solander, R. Brown, Bowen, Dallachy ; ; Port deck he Blue wat are those d 
Ge rs. M» variety much resembles O. diphylla in Zëss but the 
asp 
without the two prominent ae ribs of that "e cies.—DU. i pidula, Mig 
O. aspera, Juss. in Aun. . Par. iv. 427. t. 70. f1; ON 
in De Kruidk, FC iv. 108, d of Endl. R Brown, 9 
N. S. Botany Bay Solander; Port Jackson, ^» l 
din: New England, C. Sluart, d esestele h, C. Moore. 1 
s. PRAE as fteen — k F. Mu eller a or of O. hispidal | 
O. hirtella, DC. Prod. iv. 616, may Ge a form dltlier of this species oF | 
but is ntly ëmge a identification 
abro ` 
7. O. diphylla, Gertn. Fruct. i. 113. Slender and nearly $ ; 
