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M'itrasac772e.'] Lxxvii, loganiace.e. 357 



K, Atistralia- Port, Essingtorij Ai-msti'ong ; Depot Creek, Victoria river (fragmen- 

 tary speciTiieus, appareutly this species), F. Mueller, 



18. M. Cunninghamii, Benih. An aumial witli asceudino; or erect 

 steals, the leafy portion pubescent or hirsute. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 

 acute, l-nervecl, J to 1 in. long the sheathing base short. Peduncles lon^, 

 glabrous, bearing a compact umbel of several flowers. Calyx broad, above 1 

 line long, the lobes acute, as long as the tube. Corolla-tube broad, slightly 

 contracted above the ovary, about 3 lines long, the throat slightly bearded 

 inside ; lobes less than half as long as the tube. Stamens inserted at the 

 contraction of the tube, with tufts of hau's at their insertion ; anthers ovate, 

 liortly exserted. Stigmatic lobes rather long, the style not split at the base. 



Toung capsule nearly globose, acuminate. 



Queensland. Endeavour river. A, Canningham, Allied to M, dellata, but the 

 Cowers much larger, with exserted authers. 



19. M. pygmsea, R, Br. Prod. 453. A slender annual, usually pu- 

 bescent, the leafy portion of the stem very short. Leaves few, not rosulate 

 at the base but often stellate a little above the base, obovate ovate or oblong, 

 mostly under I in. long. Flowering stems or peduncles above the stelhate 

 [eaves, 2 to 6 in. high, leafless except small scale-like bracts under the um- 

 bel and quite glabrous, bearing a terminal umbel of few small flowers on fili- 

 foi'rn pedicels. Calyx scarcely f line long, with acute lobes not so long as 

 tje tube. Corolla almost campanulate, the tube 1.^ lines long, the lobes 

 snort and broad: Stamens inserted at or below the middle of the tube, with 

 tufts of hairs at their insertion ; anthers oblong, included in the tube. Style 

 "ot split at the base, the sti^-matic lobes shortly oblong. Capsule globular, 

 .^ery small.— A. DC. Prod. ix. 11. 



Queensland, Bay of Inlets and Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander ; Pine Port, i?. 

 i^romi; Wide Bay, BldwiU ; Cape river, Bowrnayi ; Rockhauiptou, O'SJianest/; Brisbane 

 "ver, Moretoa Bay, P. .Mueller, 



. ^/. caplllaris, Wall. ; A. DC. Prod. ix. 11, from E. India, scarcely differs from this spe- 

 <^ies m Its usually narrower leaves and larger flowers. 



20. la. lutea, i^. MuelL Tragm, i. 133. A slender erect annual of 

 j»"out 6 in., glabrous or with a few short rigid hairs on the margms of the 

 ^^^ves and on the stem below them. Leaves few in the lower part of the 

 stem, the 2 uppermost pairs often approximate so as to appear whorled, 

 i^^ear, obtuse or scarcelv acute, rarely exceeding \ in. Umbels few-flowered. 



irregularly simple or double, on a slender peduncle, with filiform pedicels, 

 ^alyx nearly 1 line bug, the lobes acute. Corolla yellow (/. Muelhr), 

 ne tube rather broad, about 2 lines lonii;, the throat sparingly bearded, 



- v^uc niuier broad, about a lines long, 

 T ^°'^''s not half so long as the tube. St 

 :f tube ; anthers included. Style not split i 



Stamens inserted at the base of 



- . - w, lUL-iuiicu. otyic nut =,plit at the base at the time of flower- 



"ig, the stigmatic summit clavate-cnpitate. Capsule nearly globular, scarcely 

 exceecUng the calyx. 



^- -^-astralia. Moist grassy places, head of Start's Greet, f. Mueller. 



21. M. m-ulticatdis, E. Br. Prod. 453. An erect annual of 2 or 3 in., 

 nearly simple or branching from the base, pubescent at least at t!ie base. 



