Mitrasaaue,'] Lxxvii. loganiaceje. 353 



nivent bealcs. Seeds granular. — R. Br. Prod. 454; A. DC. Prod. ix. 11; 

 HooLf. PL Tasra. i. 274. 



N. S. Wales. Blue MountaiTis, A. Ctmninfjkain, 



Victoria. Mount William, i^.i/«^^/^r; Yictoria Ranges, Wilhelmi ; Portland, ^//?V^ 



Tasmania. Port 'Dd\Tym]}\e^ R. Brown ^ commoa about Circular lleaJ auJ Hobar- 

 ton, / D, Hooker and others. 



Var. Stuartii^ Hook. f. Pedicels elongated, sometimes above 1 iu. long.— Near Port 

 Sorrell, C. Stuart ; Macquarrie Harbour, A, Canninglianu 



6. _M. alsinoides. It. Br. Prod. 453. Appareiitly perennial, erect, 3 

 to 4 in. high, glabrous or very slightly scalw-ous-pubesceiit. Leaves almost 

 sessile, ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, or obtuse, mostly 1 to 2 lines long. 

 Flowers very small, on slender pedicels of 3 to 4 Hues, in the upper axils. 

 Calyx broad, very open, about 1 line long, divided to the middle. Corolla- 

 tube ver)' broad, shorter than the calyx ; lobes longer than tlie tube, the 

 tlivoat not bearded inside. Anthers broad, with a small inflexed tip, not 

 eiserted. Style split at the base. Capsule small globular.— A. DC. Prod, 

 ix. 11. ' 



n 



Q^^ensland. Moreton Bay, Backhouse, 



Wales. Port Jackson, Bauer {R, Brown). 



I We not seen the typical specimens. The species is not in Brown's herbarium. 

 ^ave described it from Backhon.e's si.pcimens. wbich answer well to Brown s character, 



I 



om Backhouse's specimens, 



7- M. polymorplia, E. Br. Prod. 453. A peremiial but flmvenng 

 sometimes the first vear so as to appear annnal, glabrous scabrous -pubescent 

 or hirsute, usually liinch branched near the base, fi in. to 1 ft. high. Leav es 

 father crnwrlprl r.n fi,» i„^,^,. ^o,.4- i;„on,- Innppniate or oblons, mostly obtuse, 



the 

 inside. 



fancies terminal, slender, simple or sparingly branched, terminating in a 

 loose irregular umbel of 3 to 5 flowers, the pedicels long and iiliform. UUyx 

 broadly catnpanulate, from scarcely more than 1 Hue to nearly 2 lines long, 

 fe lobes acute, as long as the tube. Corolla-tube broad, about as long as 

 "".calyx; lobes spreading, at least as long as the tube, the throat bearded 

 ^ iJe. Anthers ovate, with minute tips. Style splitting at the base. 

 Capsule small, globular.— A. DC. Prod. ix. 10 ; M. squarrosa, M. cinerascem, 

 jnd M cane^cens, R. Br. Prod. 452, 453 ; A. DC. Prod. ix._ ^ 5/^-/7 ^ 

 M Sieb. PI. Ex., not of R. Br.; M. Sleieri, A. DC. Prod. ix. 10 ^ M. hu- 

 *"^«, Presl, Bot. Bem. 104. 



Queensland. Eudeavour river, Banks and Solander. , 



W- S Wales. Port Jacksoa o the l^lue Mountains, Jl. B>m Steber, n. 170 aiid 



™any others ; northward to Hastings river, BecHer ; southward to lUawarra, A. Canning- 



^«« ; Twofold Bay, ^. Jtf„,//,,. ° 



M pohjnorpha, "Br., is nearly glabrous with narrow leaves ; M. ^?««Tf^« '^ TlWk 



^^cent,«,th shorter broader often recurved leaves; U. cinerascens, with the lea e. of 



f-polymorpkc,, has the stems hirsute- and M. canescens is hirsute all over. «"* J;"^ 



Jgree of b,iri,ess is no? alw ys h eorrVspondence with the breadth of the eaves, aadbMh 



^Wcters are very variable. The tuft of a few hairs at the tip of the calyi-lobes occuis 



'^^loually in the glabrous as well as iu the hirsute forms. 



^". caljjcina. Calys-lobes very broad and obtuse.— N. S. Wales, Vicari/. 



8^M. longiiiora, F. Maell. in Herb. iToolc. A slender erect^ annual. 



