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Lobelia.'] Lxv. campanulaceje. 127 



obconical, and gibbous on the upper side, about 3 lines long. Seeds very 

 sinall and numerous, smooth, but opaque. 



S. Australia. Onkaparinga and Encounter Bay, P, 

 Mount Barker, Wkittaker. 



^' Australia, King; George's Sound, Wakefield; Kaljian and Vasse rivers, Oldfield; 

 Albauj, Lpper Kalgan, and Hay rivers, F. Mueller ; Swan River, Drummond, \st Coll, n. 



F Mueller believes this to be a variety a^ L. parvifolla, of which it has many characters, 

 but the foliage is more that of i. gracilis. I refer it to De Vriese's Z. rkombifolia from 

 t^c diagnosis given, for I have not seen Preiss's specimens, n. 1439, from Mount EIi>hin. 

 stone and Swan River. i ' ^ i 



f^' v*' P^-rvifolia, K Br. Prod. 564. An erect, glabrous annual, \ to 

 ft. high or rarely more, simple or slightly branched. Leaves few and very 

 small, lanceolate or linear, sessile or slightly decurrent, entire or scarcely 

 toothed. Flowers few, rather large, terminal or on long, branch-like 

 peduncles, forming sometimes a loose panicle, but not racemose. Calyx- 

 jobes narrow, longer than the short tube. Corolla 6 to 8 lines long, the 

 o^er middle lobe obovate, the lateral ones narrower, the upper ones smaller 

 and meiuTed. Anthers all tipped with tufts of short bristles. Capsule 

 about 3 lines long, very obliquely obovoid, and gibbous on the upper side, 

 feeeds veiy small, compressed, smooth, but opaque.— A. DO. Prod. vii. 359. 



W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R, Broicn, Drummoyid^ 

 ». 0^, Old field I eastward to Cape le Grand, Maxwell. 



^"i^* ^^^Sonocaulis, ^. Miiell, ¥ragm. i. 18. Nearly glabrous or 

 sprmkled with a few, small hairs. Stems (from a perennial rootstoek?) 

 creeping at the base, weak, and ascending to 1 ft. or more, somewhat 3- 

 sngled. Leaves all on rather long petioles, ovate-cordate or the lower ones 

 almost orbicular, coarsely toothed or crenate, \ to above 1 in. diameter. 



owers few and distant, in a terminal raceme, on short pedicels, in the axils 

 or very small, linear bracts. Calyx-tiibe broadly turbinate, the lobes narrow 

 atid rather longer. Corolla fully ^ in. long, the lower lobes oblong, rather 

 acute, the 2 upper ones shorter and incurved. Filaments hairy at the base ; 

 anthers all tipped with tufts of short bristles. Capsule almost globular or 

 oroader than long, scarcely oblique. Seeds ovoid, rather large, minutely 



Queensland. Shady forests, Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. 



»■ VTales. Hastings and Macleay rivers, Beckler ; New England, C. Stuart 



w'flf' ^* Bergiana, Cham, in Lumcea, viii. 217. A glabrous perennial, 



itha slender, creeping rootstoek (or sometimes annual?), the stems pro- 



umbent ascending or erect, often 2 to 3 feet long, slightly 3-angular or 



^pressed. Lower leaves often petiolate, obovate or cuneate, the others 



_essue or nearly so, oblong lanceolate or linear, entire or slightly-toothed, 



sm Tk ^^'^'^^^^''^'^y ^^to the narrower floral leaves, the uppermost reduced to 



\ r^* T'lowers sessile in the axils of the floral leaves or bracts, be- 



run^ - ^'^ bracteoles. Calyx-tube linear, the lobes narrow, acute, ser- 



br 1 ^Q ^^^^^^^' Corolla about 4 lines long, the 3 lower lobes united in a 



oad, 3-lobed lip, the 2 upper ones narrower, curved, and ascendin 



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