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130 LXV. CAMPANULACE.E. {Lohella. 





Queensland. Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander (with particularly large and tlun 

 leaves); Port Curtis, M'Gilllvray ; RockiDgham Bay, Dallachj ; Moreton Bay, i^. 

 Mueller. 



Victoria. Some specimens from Fitzroy river, Roherison, appear to belong to this 

 species, though with rather smaller leaves. 



14. L. stenophylla, Bentli. Glabrous. Stems (from a creeping 

 base?) very slender, ascending and often above 1 ft. long. Leaves sessile or 

 nearly so, linear or linear-lanceolate, minutely and remotely toothed orentne, 

 often above 1 in. long. Pedicels axillary, usually more than twice as long 

 as tlie leaves. Calyx-lobes as long as or longer than the turbinate tuhe. 

 Corolla about 4 lines long, the lobes nearly of equal length, the 3 lower ob- 

 ovate-oblong, tlie 2 upper narrower, more acute, and curved upwards. An- 

 thers glabrous, without terminal tufts, but the 2 lower tipped each with a 

 small bristle. Capsule obovate, 2 to 2^ lines long, scarcely oblicpic. 



W. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong, 



Queensland. Burnett river, F. Miteller ; Rocldiampton, O'Shanesij; Broadsound, 

 Herb, F, MuelL ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Backhouse^ F. Mueller, 



15. L. quadrangularis, R, Br, Prod, 5G3 ?. A glabrous or rarely 

 pubescent perennial, the stems much-branclied, prostrate (or ascending?), 

 angular. Leaves nearly sessile, ovate or orbicular, prominently toothedj 

 rather thin, rarely exceeding | in. Pedicels axillary, long and slender. 

 Calyx-lobes lanceolate, about as lonff as the narrow turbinate tube. Corolla 



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about 3 lines long, the lower lobes oblong, the 2 upper ones rather shorter 

 narrower and acute. Anthers glabrous or minutely pubescent on the back, 

 without terminal tufts, but the lower ones tipped with 2 or 3 very small 

 bristles. Capsule obovate- oblong, slic^htly oblique, about 3 lines long. Seeds 

 very small and numerous.— A. DC^ Prod. vii. 3G5 : F. Muell. Fragm. iv- 

 182. 



streams, Tictoria and Fitzmaurice rivers, ^• 

 --...,..... ^v.^v,.»„^^* nv^tia J.. xiAuciiui s specimens, at first distributed as L. hum'^straia, • 

 MuelL, but afterwards referred by him, and probably correctly so, to I. qnadr^ngiihv^^^ 

 which was described by R. Brown from a specimen of Bauer's which I have not seen. « 



W. Australia. Banks of brooks and 

 Mueller. Described from F. Mueller's specimen 



is not in Brown's herbarium. 



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16. L. dioica, H. Br. Prod. 5fi5. A slender mucli-branched annual of 

 3 to 6 in., glabrous or sprinkled with a few short spreading hairs. Leaves 

 sessile, oblong or lanceolate, bordered by a few small teeth or entire, 3 to b 

 hnes long, the floral ones gradually smaller. Flowers direcious, on veo 

 slender pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves and much longer than tlieji, 

 forming a terminal leafy raceme, numerous and crowded at the ends of JW 

 branches in the males, fewer and more distant in tlie females. Calyx-lobes 

 linear, about i Ime long, the males without any tube, the females with an 

 adnate tube of about i line. Corolla about H lines long, the tube slit open 

 on the upper side, the lobes obovate-oblong, nearly equal, but oblique. ^J"' 

 tLers in the males slightly pubescent, the upper ones without terminal tufts, 

 the 2 lower tipped by a very few small bristles ; the stamens rudimentary 

 in the females. Stigma in the males small and entire, and the ovules ab- 

 ortive but m the females the stigma is broadly 2-lobed as in otlier Loheh^ 

 Capsule obovoid-oblong, about 2 lines long, scarcelv oblique.— i/"o»oi^ 



