ililrasacme,] LXXVIT. loganiace^. 359 



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inserted below the middle of the tube ; anthers linear-sagittate, included. 

 Style not split at the time of tlowering, the stigmatic lobes very short. Cap- 

 sule about half as long as the calyx, tapering into 2 beaks. Seeds very 

 small, black, smooth and shining. 



W. Australia. Inundated banks of Victoria river, F. Miieller. 



25. M. phascoides, R. Br. JProd. 45^!. A minute plant, forming sessile 

 stemless tufts of leaves and flowers, not above \ in. high. Leaves linear, 

 tispid with rather long hairs. Flowers nearly sessile in the axils. Calyx-tube 

 very short, the lobes linear and hispid like the leaves. Corolla not seen. 

 Capsule globular, but the summit widely gaping, the 2 short styles connivent 

 at the tips.— A. DC. Prod. ix. 11. 



Queensland. Endeavour river. Baulks and Solander. 



Sect. II. Plecocalyx, G. Z>ow.— Calyx 2-lobed. 



A slender erect branching 



annual, usually 3 to 4 in., rarely 6 in. high, glabrous or with a few hairs 

 a^out the lower leaves. Leaves oblong oblanceolate or linear, connate and 

 shortly sheathing at the base, 2 to 3 hues long. Pedicels filiform, \ to 1^ 

 in. long, the upper ones sometimes forming a terminal umbel. Calyx at the 

 time of flowering a little above 1 line long, with 2 broad herbaceous lobes 

 scarcely so long as the tube, enlarged after flowering to nearly 2 lines, with 

 tlie lobes diverging and acute. Corolla- tube contracted above the ovary, the 

 Jipper part broad, almost campanulate, scarcely exceeding the calyx, the 

 lobes shorter than the tube. Stamens inserted below the middle of thetube ; 

 anthers included, orbicular-reniform. Style split at the base from the time of 

 flowering ; stigmatic lobes dilated upwards. Capsule included in the calyx. 

 A. BC. Prod. ix. 11 ; Hook. f. PI. Tasm. i. 274. t. 88 A (incorrect as to 

 tne style) ; Nees in PL Preiss. i. 365 ; M. divergens, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Ti. 276; M. nuda, Nees in PL Preiss. ii. 239 (with few leaves close 

 together at the base of the stem) . 



Victoria. D,y sandy places. Port Phillip, and about ^UWmxxxt, F ■ Mueller Harvey, 

 «?3 others ; Mount Abrupt and the Grampians, F. Mueller; Portland, Jlhtt ; M'enda 

 * ale, Robertson. . . 



Tasmania. Not uncommon in poor land near the sea, /. B. Hooker. 



S- Australia. Crystal Brook, Mount Burr, F. JL'eller. , „ „ _ . 



W. Australia. Dry sandv places from King George's Sound, R. Brown, ^W «• 

 23;., and others, to Swan Eiver; hrummond. ls( Coll. n. TOO, Prem, n. 2240, and others; 

 moist mossy rocks, Stirling Range, F. Mueller. 



_27. M. distylis, F. Muell in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 20, and in Hooh 

 ^<^ic Journ. viii. 164. A little erect or ascending annual, simple or sliglitly 

 branched, from i to 1 in. hio-h. Leaves oblong-linear, rather thick, 1 to 2 

 lines long. Pedicels filiform, 2 to 4 lines long. Calyx broad, very shortly 

 and obtusely 2-lobed, about 1 line long when in flower, slightly enlarged 

 When in fruit. Corolla as long as the calyx, campanulate, the lobes verj 

 ^iiort. Stamens included in the tube ; anthers short and broad, btyles 

 sometimes cohering in the bud, but quite distinct and paraUel at the time ot 

 lowering, the stigmatic ends slightly dUated and not cohering T'T'^i 

 ^horter than the calyx. Seeds with a loose reticulate testa.— Hook. I. ±1. 



lasm.i.274. t. 88B. 



