Spermacoce.] LXI. RUBIACER. 441 
pubescent, Leaves sessile, linear, with revolute margins. Stipular sheath 
very short. Flowers in small but dense terminal or at length lateral clusters 
or heads. Calyx-lobes thick, obtuse, incurved, as long as the tube and nearly 
as long as the corolla. Corolla not above 1 line long, usually pubescent out- 
side, the tube slightly hairy inside ; lobes longer than the tube, thickened to- 
wards the Stamens inserted at the orifice of the tube ; anthers oblong, 
hot exceeding the lobes. Carpels opening nearly to the base. 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown (with rather larger 
flower-heads) 
: nd. Burnett river, F. Mueller; Broadsound and Bowen river, Bowman ; 
Brisbane river, 4. Cunningham. 
The flowers are nearly those of S. semierecta, Roxb., but the foliage is very different. In 
meer respect it resembles the narrow-leaved form of 5. striata, Linn., but differs in the 
ers, 
lines long, the tube short and broad, the lobes much longer, lanceolate. Sta- 
"se inserted at the orifice of the tube, as long as or much longer than the 
bes. Fruit only seen young. 
dm Aste ia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Croker's Island, 4. 
ngham ; Port Essington, Armstrong. 
5 RUN 
lute hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves on rather long petioles, ovate or elliptical, 
orifice of the tube, exceeding the lobes. Fruit not seen 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
C 
above ] line long, the lobes longer than the tube. Stamens inserted at the 
. Flowers 
jumerous, in dense heads mostly terminal. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, 
yl 
Fruit small, the carpels opening to the base. 
alacea i it is quite that of a 
M md. Sir Charles Hardy's Island, Henne.—The habit is quite th 
shaped Species in Griffith’s collection, bat the corolla is very much larger and differently 
9. S. i : ] with ascendin 
inaperta, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 43. An annual w g 
ues Ngid, but sender branches of 1 ft. or more, glabrous and smooth in 
~~ eaves sessile, narrow-linear, with revolute margins. Sti- 
sheaths rather large and scarious, the bristles fine and rather short. 
