'^o;^ LXXVll. LOGAXiACEiE. [MUrasacme. 



in the throat, ovate with recurved tips. Ovaiy tapering into 2 short conni- 

 vent but not connate styles. Capsule much compressed, broadly truncate, the 

 small erect styles forming short points to the very divaricate lobes or angles. 



Victoria. Eaw-Eaw Mountains at an elevation of 4500 ft., F. MiieUer. 



Tasmania- Mount Welliuffton and Black Bluff l\Jouutains, Gun7i ; Recherche Bay, 

 Oldfeid. 



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3. M. serpyllifolia, R, Br. Prod. 454. A perennial, with creeping 

 prostrate intricately branched filiform stems extending to a few inches, gla- 

 brous or sprinkled with a few hairs. Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, 1 to 2 lines long, glabrous or ciliate. Flowers axillary, almost 

 sessile. Calyx divided to about the midfllc or rather deeper, about 1 line 



Corolla-tube exceedingly short- lobes spreading to about 3 lines 



;r, the throat glabrous. Stamens iiiserted in the very short tube, 



nearly half as long as the lobes; anthers small, ovate. Styles diverging at 



the base, connate at the top. Capsule obovoid-globular, slightly compressed. 



—A DC. Prod. ix. 11 ; Hook. f. Pi. Tasm. i. 374 ; M. perpimlU, Hook. f. 



m Hook. Loud. Jouru. vi. 275. 



N. S. Wales. Grose river, H. Brown ; Mount Tomah, A. Cunningham. 

 Victoria. Haidiiiger range at an elevation of 5000 ft., F. Mueller. 

 Tasmania. Sandy soil, Western Mountains, Hampshire Hills, etc., Gunn. 



This plant sometimes resembles M. rdlosa, but is at once known hy the deeply lobeJ 

 almost rotate corolla and exserted statnens. 



long. 



diaraete 



-. r-„„«„^^j j.„. jj, . ^ nj^^ 'too. a. perennial wiiu uiecping i-."--- 



or ascending branched steins of 3 to 6 in., more or less pubescent or hirsute. 

 Leaves oblong-li.iear or lineav-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 3 to 4 Hoes lon^. 

 blowers in the upper axils on short pedicels or the uppermost pedicels 

 longer in a small terminal leafy umbel. Calyx about 1 line long, divided to 

 about the middle. Corolla-tube broadly campanulate, scarcely above \ hue 

 long ; lobes spreading to nearly 2 lines diameter. Anthers shortly exserted, 

 but Jess so than in M. serpylUfoUa. Capsule nearly globular, shorter than 



oT 'fr-T^^- ^^- P™'^- ^'^^ 11 ; ^- d'A^'^> Benth! in Journ. Linn. Sod 

 y^; M.pilosula, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 134. 



Islmirwr*^' ■^"'■'''" '"■"' ^■^^'^^<^r; Rockinghani Bay, V all achy ; Stradbrooke 



Wale 



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difF;r?fn^'"r,'J'P'T'''' ^- '«''«^«"'^ «i the one hand and M. ahinotdes on the other, l)at 

 difierb from hoth in flowers as well as in folia-e. 



5. M. pilosa, Labill. PI. Kov. Roll. i. 36. t. 49. A perennial, will^ 

 Zll °'- P;;ostratc stems, sometimes rooting at the base, and forming dense 

 mlTVl ?•• °' "'°'''' soi"«^times short and ascending to a fe«7"cKj 

 oZ-. nU ' "T*' '''''^' ^^oid hairs. Leaves ovate oi°)Icalar or broadlv 

 no tef;.. "'''I'^'"/' ^^^'* l^"g l^^''-^' 2 to 3 lines long. Pedicels ax.llj^> 

 lone h S rfl.^^1 Y'''' ^ '^' "^^'^ f-'"- Calyx^broad. above I l- 

 hrSt J ?;i ^f'^ ^'"^^- Corolla-tube broad, as long as the calyMh« 

 nnich ,bn%^.r"\'f^'^ ^"^^ ''^"^^'^ bearded in ide ; lobes broad obtus^ 

 much shorter than the tube. Anthers ovate, with recurved, afterwards ere t 

 tips, not exserted. Style split at the base. Capsule globular, with 3 con- 



