loleUaJ\ ■ LXV. CAMPANULACE.E. 131 



dioica, Presl, Prod. Mon. Lob. 11 ; Holodigma dlokiwi, G. Don, Gen, Syst. 

 iii. 716, A. DC, Prod. vii. 352. 



N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, opposite Groote Island, R. Brown ; Roner river 

 aad near Macadam Range, F. Mueller. 



17. L. purpurascens, R. Br, Prod, 563. Quite glabrous. Stems, 



from a perennial rootstock, branched, procumbent or ascending, angular, often 



above 1 ft. long, but sometimes very small and short. Leaves shortly petio- 



late or almost sessile, from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, toothed, rather firm, 



usually from | to 1 in. long. Pedicels axillary, much longer than tbe leaves, 



often reflexed after flowering. Flowers (in all the specimens seen) dioecious. 



Ylyx-lobes narrow, acute, the tube very short or scarcely any in the males, 



obconical and rather narrow in the females. Corolla 4 to 5^ lines long, the 



ower lobes oblong, obtuse, tlic 2 upper ones rather shorter narrower more 



l^cute and incurved. Anthers in the males glabrous, without terminal tufts, 



'^ut the 2 lower tipped with 1 or 2 small bristles, smaller and without polleu 



or abortive in the females. Stigma small and undivided, and ovules abortive 



in the males, the stigma broadly 2-lobed in the females. Capsule narrow- 



0^ Old, fully 3 lines long, the conical summit opening in 2 valves as in LoLe- 



'^5; the seeds rather lar^^^e and often flattened as in Fratia.—k. DC. Prod, 

 vu. 365. 



Queensland. Southern tributaries of the Burnett river, F, UiieUer. 



^auu, C. Stuart; Hastings and Macleay rivers, Beckler. 



Victo 



En™l.^" }K^^^^- ^ort Jackson to the Blue Mountaius, R, Brown and others; New 



victoria. Along brooks near the mouth of the Snowy River, P. Mueller; Grampians, 

 »V/../.., (the latter a very small form) . 



iTiA \ ^ ^P^^^^® ^as some resemblance with Pratia CunninghamiL hut is at once known by 

 l^e long usually recurved pedicels. 



^.}!lh' Pratioides, Be 



Leaves 



^ car oblong or lanceolate, bordered by small distant teetli or rarely entire, 

 ob* t ^^^^*'^ ^^^* narrowed at .the base, i to f in. long, the lower ones rarely 

 thrT ■^^'^^'^''^ small, on axillary pedicels shorter or rather longer than 

 turl.- ^^^^' "^^^^ °^ '^^^ dioecious. Calyx-tube scarcely any in the males, 

 rDiiiate m the females. Corolla about 4 lines long, the lobes oblong, 

 witi! f*l-*^^ ^ut oblique. Anthers in the males glabrous, the upper ones 

 1^ '"°" terminal tufts, the 2 lower tipped with a tuft of short bristles, gla- 

 line^^V^"^ *^"ipty or abortive in the females. Capsule obliquely obovate, 2^ 

 ^^ 'ong, the conical summit opening in 2 valves as in other Lobelias. 



Rc,b^Nn^'^\ ^''^™ '■"•^'■' forest Creek, and Station Peak, F. Mueller ; Wendii Vale, 

 ^cwn ; Australian Pyrenees, WUhelmi. 

 ^•^smania. Soutli Esk river near Perth, C. Stuart. 



^<:>^^l^3f't^}^^ ^°"ie resemblance with Pratia miierula, but the leaves are much nar- 

 '' "''^ <^^ fruit that of a Lobelia. 



2. PRATIA, Gaudich. 



nearr^ °^ -Co5fZ/ff. Corolla slit open on the upper side, 5-lobed, the lobes 

 'y equal but very oblique. Stamens of Lobelia. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, 



K 2 



