Damjjiera.l LXIV. goouenovie^. Ill 



obtuse, vei-y small, but proiiiineiit. Corolla about j in. lon^. Ovary 1- 

 celled, with 1 erect, horseshoe-shaped ovule. Truit not seen. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Collie, Drutnmond, \st Coll.,'2.nd Coll. n. 396. 



8. D. carinata, Benth. A small perennial, the stock tufted and woolly, 

 tlie rest of the plant glabrous except the flow^ers. Stems erect, braiichii)(^, 

 terete, rigid, almost leafless, the specimens seen not exceeding G iu. Leaves 

 few, small, linear-terete or reduced to nn'nute scales. Flowers solitary and 

 terminal, about 4 lines long, silky-white with appressed and stellate hairs. 

 Calyx-tube short, with a broad, semicircular, keel-like appendage or gibl)osify 

 on one side, the lobes ovate-lanceolate as long as the tube, Ovary 1-cellcd, 

 with I erect, horseshoe-shaped ovule. 



W. Anstralia, Drummond, ind Cull. n. 397 {Herb. F. MuelL). 



9- D. sacculata, F. Muell. Herb. Herbaceous, glabrous except the 



flowers, the stems rush-like, terete or scarcely angular, simple or branched, 

 sometimes erect and 1 to U ft. high, sometimes longer and flexuose (or al- 

 most scandent?). Leaves linear, veiy narrow and thick, obtuse, entire, the 

 lower ones sometimes 1 to 2 in. long, and occasionally rather broad and flat, 

 tne upper ones distant, very small, and almost terete. Peduncles in the 

 upper axils mostly 2 or 3 together, 1 -flowered or rarely 2 -flowered. Calyx- 

 tube very short, oblique and gibbous, the lobes nuuute, concealed under the 

 indumentum. Corolla about \ in. long, of a deep purple-blue, clothed as 

 J'ell as the calyx with black, appressed hairs. Ovary 1 -celled, with 1 erect, 

 norseshoe-shaped or almost annular ovule. Fruit not seen. 



^^ 'J^^^^'"'^^^^- Blackwood and Upper Kalgan rivers, Oldjield ; Stirling Kange, Max- 

 «e'h F. Mueller. ^ 



10. D. incana B. Br. Prod. 588. A diff'use or divaricately -branched 

 slirub, hoary in every part with a close intricate or stellate tomentum. 

 l^eaves obovate or oblong-cuneate, the lower ones shortly petiolate and above 

 A in. long, the upper ones smaller and sessile but narrowed at the base, all 

 q'ute entire or very rarely sliohtly angular. Flowers solitary or 2 together 

 termmatmg short leafy branches 'and forming an irregularly corymbose leafy 

 panicle Bracts and bracteolcs small, linear, very obtuse. Calyx-tube very 

 s.'wrt the minute lobes concealed under the indumentum. Corolla about 4 

 lines long, densely tomentose outside. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 erect horse- 

 shoe-shaped ovule. Fruit not seen.-DC. Prod. vii. 503 ; De ^ r. Gooden. 



W. Australia. Sharks' Bay, GaudicJiaud, A. Cunmnaham ; Dirk Hai'tog's Island, 

 •^■^mmgkam ; Miuchison river, OldJiehL 

 ^st^'/l^^"""^'- Tomeutum of the flower looser, of a more leaden colour.— Murehisoa 



to S i I'''? ^'■"^-"•- "• 17, says that B. incaua extends over the desert land of the interior 



specie n"^^'^ and Victoria, varying nmoh in inttorescenee, etc., hut ho includes in the 

 ^pecies i). jpj • , y, ' ■ p . . ^„^„_ t„ me to differ too much m 



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