440 LXI. RUBIACES. [Spermacoce. 
acute, often unequal, the longer ones as long as the tube. Corolla about 1 
line long, bearded inside at =the orifice of the tube, the lobes very short. 
sule about 14 lines long, more or less of the dissepiment remaining attached 
to one of the carpels after dehiscence.—S. stricta, F. Muell. Fragm. i iv. 41, 
E of Linn 
. Aus Ré som s omg x Hatters Port gre rtm 
Sien e d. E. coas ort Denison Burneit river and 
Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, € Muar; Rockhampton, Those, Dt (the latter with 
rather broader leaves and more hir 
2. S. pogostoma, Pans. — erect, and quite glabrous. Leaves 
linear or linear-lanceolate. — Stipular bristles rather lo ong. Flowers small, not 
very numerous, in terminal and lateral heads. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, bel 
acute, almost pungent, longer than the tube, and almost as long as t 
corolla. Corolla a little more than 1 line lig: E coloured when dry, 
very densely bearded inside at the orifice of the tube ; lobes longer than the 
tube, inflected at the e tips. Anthers small, ovate, Ko sessile at the base o 
the tube as in S. brachystema. 
N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller ; Amity Creek (M*Douall Stuart ?) Hai. 
eti, 
3. S. leptoloba, Benth. | Annual, me wer ba te * 
bescent. Leaves lanooclaté or elliptical, 1 to uminate and 
narrowed at the base, lt a few very oblique veins "omen eet 
GE bristles very fine a not very long. Flow merous, in dense 
ve e the 
eh Anthers TG much larger than in the allied species "iel at 
the base of the tube. Fruit about I line long, smooth and w e, the calys- 
N. Australia. Port Ess " —:'The flowers appear to be 
heroes the females Se ng any traces of stamens, sin the ses with a a slender 
abortive ovary. 
e 
opening mle to the bas 
Howick' 
N.E. ve? Banks A. Cunningham ; Howie 
Macoilli gë Ce SCH anks and Solander, unning. 
Isles, 
ial almost woody 
enth. Annual or with a perenni fely scabrous- 
id S. multi tenis; 
base and erect rigid pe glabrous and smooth or minu 
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