LeschenauUia!] LXiv. goodenovie.e. 43 



lobes usually as long as or longer than the corolla-tube. Corolla 4 to 5 lines 

 long, the lobes longer than the tube, all digitately spreading and winged, the ' 

 wings undulate, not broad, irregularly and very sparingly veined. Capsule 

 about I in. long.— DC. Prod. viT. 519^ 



AV* Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Barter, and others ; Swan l^iver, 

 Brummond, \st Coll. ; Fiinders Buy, Collie ; Mouut Barker. Tone river, "Wilsou's Inlet, 

 Oldfield. The flovverg are usually described as 2-bractcolate, but they are so in appearauce 

 only, the flower being between 2 nearly opposite leaves similar to the subtending one, but in 

 the axil of one of them is another flower-bud, whichj as it is developed, causes the branchlet 

 to grow out, and the leaves become alternate. 



12. L, floribiinda^ Benth, in Hueg. Enum, 70. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft.^ 

 with spreading or rarely virgate branches. Leaves rather crowded but not 

 imbricate, finely pointed or almost obtuse, 2 to 4 lines long. Flowers white, 

 pale blue, lilac or yellowishj in terniinal, leafy corymbs, but not so dense as 

 m i. expa?isa, the flo^vers themselves larger, and the calyx-tube at the time 

 of flowering always longer than the surrounding leaves. Corolla 6 to 8 lines 

 long, the lobes nearly equal, all digitately spreading and louger than the tube, 

 the wings not at all or very obscurely veined, the point of the lobe in the 

 notch between them.— DC. Prod. vii. 519; De Vr. Gooden. 186; L. glauca, 

 Lindl. Swan Eiv. App. 27 ; De Vr. Gooden. 184 ; L. pallescens, De Vr. in 

 PI Preiss. i. 415 ; L. expanm, De Vr, Gooden. 184, partly, not of R. Br. 



^'^^ Australia. Swan River, Huegel^ Brummond, \st ColLy FreUs, n, ]460, 1404, 

 1468 ; Murchisou river, Oldfield. 



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13. L. heteromera, Benth. A shrub, with rather rigid branches, 

 l^eaves mucrouate-acute, thicker and more rigid tliau in most species, usually 

 under \ m. long, not imbricate. Flowers apparently blue, few in the upper 

 axils, forming a short, loose, leafy spike, the calyx-tube longer than tlie 

 surrounding leaves. Calyx-lobes very acute. Corolla (pale blue?) 6 to 8 

 lines long, the 3 lower lobes with broad, blue, transversely-veined wings as 

 m Z. b'lloba, but the 2 upper ones shorter, linear-lanceolate, acute, with 

 narrow, involute margins but not winged. Capsule about f in. long. 



^^. Australia, T)rummo7id, n, 142, Mi^lne ; E. Mouiit Barren, Moir's Inlet, Oldfield 

 tod Phillips rivers, Maxwell 



Sect. II. Latouria, Endl. — Capsule ending in a slender, seedless, inde- 

 hiscent beak. Leaves or scales of the stem distant. Flowers solitary, 

 terminal or leaf-opposed. 



14. li. divaricata F. MuelL Fragm. iii. 33, 167. Summits of the 

 1>laut leafless, rigid, flexuose, intricately branched, the leaves replaced by 

 small, oblong-lint^ar, distant scales. Flowers sessile, terminal or opposite the 

 scales. Calyx-tube 2 to 3 lines long, the lobes narrow, about half as long. 

 Corolla yellow {F. MuelL), G to 8 lines long, the lobes about as long as the 

 tube, all narrow and expanded, the 3 low^er ones winged, the 2 upper ones 

 lanceolate-falcate, not winged. Fruit often above 1 in. long, ripening but 

 ^ery few large, thick seeds^and contracted into a neck at the top, and also 

 between the seeds. 



S. Australia, Cooper's Creek, Wheeler. 



