Dfimplera.'] Lxiv. goodexovie^. 117 



ccous mostly 1 to 2 in. long, tlie upper ones often irregularly opposite or 

 wliorlecJ Peduncles usually clustered in the upper axils, 1- or rarely 2- 

 flmvered, shorter or scarcely longer than the leaves, mostly stellate-tomentose. 

 i'lowers blue, clothed with appressed, parallel-branched hairs. Calyx-teeth 

 much smaller than in D. stricta, sometimes scarcely conspicuous, and usually 

 concealed under the iuduraentum. Corolla -J in. long or rather more. Ovary 

 i-celled, wuh 1 straight ovule erect from the base.— DC. Prod. vii. 501 ; 

 ^e Vr. Gooden. 105 (both as to the Western plant only) ; Z>. suhterticillata, 

 De^^. m Pi. Preiss. i. 403; Goodcn. 108. 



jf ■W^i/^'^^'''*^'*' -"^'"S George's Sound aud adjoiuiug districts, R. Brown, Baxter, Old- 

 MaxiS ^"'"''"oud, n. 359, Preiss, n. 1510, and thence eastward to Cape Arid, 



ar. mgustlfoUa. Leaves all lanceolate or the larjrer cues oblons-cuneate.— Cape Arid, 



erect*' ^•. f "^^P^^^t^, ^enth. Glabrous except the flowers. Branches 



11 ■ V I^° ' ^-'''"o'^'i- . Leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, 



iicK, tlat coriaceous, 1 to 2 in. long, the floral ones much smaller. Flowers 



lea — "'^ 1 ^^^^^^^' ®°^^^''*^T or 2 or 3 together, in the axils of the tloral 

 intp^V^' ■■' ^^'^^^^' °" pedicels shorter than the leaves, forming long, vir- 

 b" e, nowenng branches or leafy, interrupted spikes. Bracts or hracteoles 



rol"" T P'.*"*^^ narrow, 5-ribbed, glabrous, the lobes minute. Co- 



a about \ in. long, clothed with appressed, parallel-branched hairs. 

 u,an- l.celled, with 1 erect, linear ovule. 



specime '^^^'^" "^^^^ ^^*^ ^^^^ ^^ Blount Bland, Maxwell. There are but very few 



further mV^^^'T^^^^^^ ^"^ ^^^^^^ peculiar iufloresceuce auJ glabrous calyx, but possibly 



materials may show tbeir connection with some one of the foregoing sx)ecies. 



shrulj "T'.***^^^.^^? LindL in Sican Riv. App. 27. A perennial or under- 

 angul' ^\t ^ ^liick, woody stock, and uuraerous ascending or erect, slightly 

 dothed -fr^' ^^"^^ exceeding 1 ft. in any of our specimens, the whole plant 

 I'Do-ino \ ^ ^^^l''"^'^ tomentmn, either' loose and lloccose or dense and fer- 

 ffom b^' 11 disappearing from the old leaves and brandies. Leaves 

 ceous l? }^ obovate to oblong-cuneate, angular-toothed or entire, coria- 

 contra . . ^^^'^^ *^^^s petiolate and often 3 in. long, the upper ones smaller, 

 ifrem] ^1 ^* ^'^'^ ^^^^' ^^^ sessile or nearly so, the floral ones sometimes 

 longer tf ^^^^^^^^^'^^*^' ^^^^^i^^cles clustered 'in the npper axils, and usually 

 Floue \ ^^^ leaves, few-flowered. Bracts very small and narrow. 



Corolh^ ?^ ^^^'^^' ^""^^^ densely stellate-tomentose, the lobes obsolete. 

 Ovarv'/ il^^^ ^^^^^^ ^'^"^' clothed with appressed, parallel-branched hairs. 

 De' Vr PI ' ^^^*'^ 1 ^^"^ct, linear ovule.— De Yr. Gooden. SO; D. repanda, 

 trichn '^t ^^'^'^^^- i- 400; Gooden. 80; B, Bnimniondi and Z>. hamato- 

 ^^^'I>e\r, Gooden. 82, 9i. 



P/^W «.^^K*^^*' d^nmmond, 2nd Coll. n. 105, Srd Coll. Sif^jil. ;2. 57; Swan PJver, 



^^ous e?' ^^earis, S. Br. Prod. 588. A rigid herb or undershrub, gla- 

 ^tenis trTf V ^^^^*'*^^^c*^»ce or sprinkled with irregularly stellate hairs, the 

 exceeding iTf^"^^' scarcely angular, sometimes all under 1 ft., sometimes 



■*-2 ft. Leaves sessile or the lower ones contracted into a short 



