Lj/simacJiia.'] lxix. primulace.e. 



269 



Stem tall, erect. Leaves narrow, scattered or in whorls of 3. Flowers 

 in a short, terminal raceme or obloiitr panicle 1. L. saJicifoha. 



Stem weak or trailing. Leaves netiolate, ovate, flowers axillary and 

 solitary 2. L.japomca. 



1. L. salicifolia, F. Mueli. Herh. Stems tall, erect, simple, glabrous 

 or minutely glandular-pubescent in the upper part. Leaves scattered or al- 

 most collected into whorls of 3, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 narrowed hito a short petiole, 3 to 4 in. long. Flowers yellow, ui a short, 

 terminal, compound raceme or oblong panicle. Pedicels slender, 3 to 4 hues 

 long, almost verticillate or In clusters of 3 to 5 on a short common peduncle, 

 with small linear bracts at their base. Calyx-segments narrow, nearly 3 lines 

 long. Corolla divided nearly to the base into rather broad, obtuse lobes 

 nearly 3 lines long. Stamens much shorter than the corolla, the hlaments 

 dilated at the base, but scarcely connate. Style elongated, but very deci- 

 duous. 



W. S. Wales. New England, twenty miles from Timbarra. C. Stuart. 



Victoria. Snowy River, F. Mueller. Tfie aspect of the [plant is very nearlj that of 

 the uorthern Asiatic L. dahirica, but the flowers appear smaller, m a single termrn^ 

 raceme. The plant is, however, very rare, and the few specimens seen are not lu \ery gooa 

 flower. 



2. L. japonica, TUunl. Fl. Jap. 83 ; Ic FL Jap. t 16. Stems weak 



usually creeping and rooting at the base, with shortly ascending simple 

 branches of 6 in. to 1 ft., more or less pubescent as well as the tohage. 

 Leaves opposite or rarely in whorls of 3, or the uppermost alternate, pctioia e, 

 ovate, sometimes cordate, i to 1 in. long. Flowers yellow, solitary in the 

 axils, on recurved peduncles shorter than the leaves. Calyx-segments nar- 

 row, acute, nearly as long as the corolla. Corolla deeply divided into broad 

 obtuse lobes. Stamens Shorter than the corolla, the filaments dilated at the 

 base and shortly united. Capsule 5-valved.— Duby in DC. Prod, viu b , 

 Klatt, Monogr.'Lysim. 34. t. 19 ; L. maculata, R. Br. Prod. 428 ; Duby in 

 I^C. Prod. viii. 6G ; L. debills. Wall., Duby, 1. c. 



N. S. Wales. Hunter's River, R. Brown ; near Timbarra, New England C. Stu.rt. 

 The species is widely dispersed over the hilly parts of tropical and eastern Asia, from Ceylon 

 Wid the Neilgherries to the Himalaya, Formosa, and Japan. 



2. ANAG-ALLIS, Linn. 



(Euparea, Gart>i. ; Micropyxis, Duby) i K i 1 I 



^ Calyx free, deeply 5.cleft. Corolla rotate or campanulate, deeply 5- obea^ 

 Stamens 5. CapsJle opening transversely by a circular fa^^^^--^ ^^^^^^^^^^ 

 •^iJaie (circumsdss) . Placenta globulnr.-Annuals o-*^ P^^'^""^''^;'. ;. .^^ 

 weeping procumbent or diffuse stems. Leaves opposite or alternate, 

 pink red or blue, axillary and solitary. 



^^ A„ small genus, widely dispersed over the temperate and warmer "-^f °°',.°^^^^'JeL''onI 



[hough in some countries only as introduced weeds. Of the two ^^"^''^'^ '^^^'^Xsia. 



■ te ougs to the latter class, the other may be indigenous, although common to tropical . 



Afnca, aBd America. x. A. arvensls. 



graves opposite. Corolla quite rotate • • -A, ' ' 



leaves alternate. Corolla broadly campanulate. almost rotate, iloweis .^^^ 



«ry small. ..*•"»/' 



