L)(/mk.] LXXVII. LOGANIACJE^. 361 



Stems more or less leafy. Calyi-sea;ments long, linear, acute. 

 Leaves linear, with revolute margins, mostly reduced to small 



scales. Flowers at the nodes or solitary and terminal . . .13. L. spermacocea. 

 Leaves linear, with revolute margins. Flowers solitary aud ter- 

 minal. Corolla densely bearded at the thro;it 14. Z. callosa. 



leaves linear or lanceolate. Flowers termiual, solitary or few 



in a broad cyme. Corolla rot bearded 15. £. camjpaJiuIata. 



Low, branching, slender, erect or diffuse, leafy hcrhs. Leaves small, 

 ovate-oblong or lanceolate. 



Flowers few, sessile in little terminal heads 1&. L. serpijUifoha. 



Flowers all solitary in the axils l^. L. pusilla. 



Sect. I. Eulogania, 7)0.— Calyx-segments obtuse. Stamens inserted 

 in the middle of tlie tube ; anthers included. Stems slirubby, at least at 

 llie base. Flowers more or less dioecious, tlie males with an abortive ovary, 

 tlie style apparently developed but with a narrow stigma ; the females with 

 abortive or imperfect anthers. 



1- L. longifolia R. Br. Trod. 456. An erect glabrous shrub or 

 niulershrub, attaining' 5 or 6 ft. or even more. Leaves narrow- elhptical or 

 lanceolate, acuminate acute or almost obtuse, narrowed into a rather long 

 petiole or rarely almost sessile, distinctly peniiiveined, 1^ to 3 in. long or 

 sometimes even longer. Flowers smaller than in L. latt/olia and more nu- 

 merous, in pedunculate cymes, terminal or in the upper axils, usually forming 

 a loose terminal leafy panicle. Calvx-segmeiits about \ m. long. Corolla- 

 tube rather longer than the calyx, the throat bearded inside. Anthers m the 

 ttales ovate-oblong. Stio-ma in the females ovate-capitate, m the males 

 cylindrical or clavate. Ovules numerous in each cell on a small almost 

 stipitate placenta. Capsule ovoid-oblong, about 3 lines long.— DL. Trod. 

 «. 25; Nees in PI. Preiss. i. 367. 



. S. Au5.tralia. Sturt river, Mount Loftv, :Mount KemarkaWc, F. Mueller ; Onkapa- 

 nnsra river, Whdtaker. ' ^ , n ■ 



W. AnstraUa. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, B. -^'-''f^./- *^'f'"3 

 *''«, and others; Swan river. Eraser, Brummond, \st Coll.; Prem, n. 124a, 124b, aud 

 others. 



Var. brevifoUa. Leaves shorter broader and less acuminate, almost intermediate between 

 this species and L. lafifol ia. —Bvemer Bay, Maxwell; Crystal Brook, F. Mueller. ^ 

 Var. suisessilis. Leaves nearly sessile, with recurved margins.— Onkaparinga river, /. 



^I'dler. 



This and the four following species seem to pass graduallv one i"t° ^^J^, °t^^^' ^"f^ .f f^^ 

 ^«11 Be considered as varietiel of one species. F. Mueller, Fragm. y>. 132, F"?"^ / ^j"^^ 

 [hre^ of them nnder the nauie of L. vaginalis, retaining L crasnfoha ^f ^J^gf''' 

 both of which appear to me to be much nearer to L. ovata than th,s is to L. longifoha. 



^ ^. !«. latifolia, R. Br. Trod. 455. An erect glabrous and often glaucous 

 shrub or undershrub of about 3 ft. Leaves from broadly obovate to oljlong- 

 elliptical, obtuse or very shortly acuminate, narrowed into a short petiole, 

 opaque or shining above but not so thick as in X. cras^ifoha, mostly i^ to 

 H m. long. Flowers in dense terminal sessile or shortly pedunculate cymes. 

 Calyx-segments ovate, ciliolate, about 1 Hue long. CoroIIa-tnbe rather 



onger, broad, bearded inside at the throat.- Stamens, ovary, and style ot L, 

 ^<^'^3'Mia. Capsule ovoid-oblong, about 4 Hues long. — Spreng. Weue 



