362 LXXVII. LOGANIACE^. \Logania. 



Entdeck. i. t. 2 (a naiTOW form) ; DC. Prod. ix. 25 ; Nees iii PL Preiss. L 

 366 ; Exacim vaginale, Labill. PI. Nov. IIolL i. 37. t 51. 



"W. Australia. King George's Soundj LahlUardih-e, R. Brotvn, Brnmmond, 5M 

 Coil. n. 344, Preiss^ n. 1244, and others j eastward to Cape Arid and Esperance Bay, 

 MaxivelL 



3. L. crassifolia, K Br. Prod, 455. A rigid diffuse slirub, tie 



branches and inflorescence scabrous, otberwise glabrous. Leaves on very 

 short petioles, broadly ovate or orbicular, very obtuse, tliick smooth and 

 shining, with recurved nerve-like thickened margins, f to 1^ in. long. 

 Flowers numerous, in compact terminal almost sessile cymes, the pedicels 

 very short. Calyx, corolla, stamens, ovary, style, and capsule, entirely as in 

 X. latifoUa.~-DG. Prod. ix. 25- 



S. Australia- Memory Cove and Port Lincoln, R. Broicn, Wilhelmi ; Guicheu Bay 

 and Lake Alesandrina, P. Mueller. 



MT". Australia. King George's Sound or to the eastward (Lucky Bay?), Baxter. 

 Probably a strictly maritime variety of L. lailfolia. 



4. L, ovata, R, Br, Prod, 453. An erect glabrous shrub. Leaves 

 sessile or very shortly petiolate, orbicular ovate obovate or broadly elliptical, 

 obtuse or acute, rounded slightly coidate or shortly contracted at the base, 

 rather thick and often shining above, but more distinctly veined than in L 

 cramjolia, and the margins not so thick, i to 1 in. long. Flowers in small 

 compact cymes, on simple or branched peduncles, terminal or in the upper 

 axils. Calyx-segments ovate, very obtuse, ^ to f line long. Corolla-tube 

 about as long as the calyx, bearded inside at the throat, the lobes broad, ob- 

 tuse, about as long as the tube. Anthers rather large in the males, abortive 

 m^ the females. Ovary rudimentarv in the males, but the style developed 

 with a rather large clavate stigma'; stigma in the females almost globular. 

 Capsule ovate, acuminate, about 2 lines long.— DC. Prod. ix. 25 ; Z). ^^^^> 

 tica, E. Br. Prod. 455 ; DC. Prod. ix. 25, 



Victoria. 

 S. Austral 



Mouth of the Glcntig, SoberUon, F. Mueller ; Grampians?, .VMieH. 

 r • T T> o*^" ^- coast, R.Brown; Port Lincoln and Encounter Bar, lUamer. 

 Onicheu Bay, Schulzen ; Kangaroo Island, Waier/wuse. 



W, Australia. King George's Sound, £. Brow?,, Baxier ; Flinders Bay, CoUte; 

 Champion Bay, Oljfield. o , , , 



Besides the foliage, the flowers are smaller and the inflorescence looser than in L MifiJ'' 

 and A,. crass,foha. Some specimens seem almost to pass into the short-leaved forms ot u. 



cymes. The leaves are sometimes KiJ 



\ iV e r "'^ii-ii uuii; Luujpaci cymes, iiie jeavc= uit ^vi..-. 



nearly those ot L. crassifoUa, sometimes again almost as small as in L. huxifoUa 



/; .^;^^''^fo^ia, F. Mudl. Trmjm. vi. 132. An erect glabrous shrub 



1 \ ?• , ,^^''*^*^s from obovate to oval, very obtuse, contracted into a 



short petiole, tluck and almost veinless, 3 to 4 lines Ion-. Flowers in small 



compact cymes, on sliort terminal peduncles, their structure entirely as in i'- 



ot^^a, or rather smaller. Capsule, as in that species, ovoid, about 2 liue» 



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Bar^^ltwf "' ^'•"--'»"^. 5^^' CoU. n. 3 15 ; South-west Bay and West Mount 



aUhrh ^V^^l^V^^^' ^' Maell. Fragm. i. 128. A small shrub, '^f 

 glabious. Leaves hnear, obtuse, rather thick, with revolute margins, mostb 



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