4 



37fi Lxxviii. GENTIANE^:. [PWarsia. 



smaller. Calyx-see-ments lanceolate, acute. Corolla-lobes shortly exceeding: 

 tlie calyx, with entire margins, bearded inside at the base. Ovary attackd 

 by a very broad base ; ovules rather few ; style with oblong stigmatic lobes. 

 Capsule shorter than the calyx, opeiiiug in 4 valves. Seeds few, smooth and 

 shining, with a prominent tubercle or strophiole at the hilum. — Xees in PI. 

 Preiss. i. 364. 



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'W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, ^st Coll. n. 3, also n, 163, Eicegel, ?rem, 

 «. 1955 ; Blackwood river, Oldfield ; Cape Lecuwiu, CoUle, Drummond's n. 4 appears 

 to be a slender form of the same specieSj with ovate, ofteu narrow, rather small leaves. 



5. V, reniformis, R. Br. Prod. 457. An erect plant, varying In sta- 

 ture from G in. to 3 ft. Leaves usually all radical, in a dense tuft, on long 

 petioles from ovate to orbicular or reniform, more or less cordate at the base, 

 entire or slightly sinuate-toothed, rather thick, obscurely several-nerved, 

 mostly 1 to 2 in. long, flowering stems paniculately branched, leafless ex- 

 cept small linear or lanceolate bracts, or rarely bearing a single petiolate leaf 

 at the first branching. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, usually acute, 3 to 4 lines 

 long:. Corolla yellow, spreading to from f to 1 in. diameter ; lobes broad 

 with entire or slightly denticulate margins, copiously bearded or frinj?ed in- 

 side at the base. Anthers linear. Stigmatic lobes ovate, rather thick. 

 Capsule opening at the top in 4 valves. Seeds smooth or grauular-tuhercu- 

 late.— P. Mnell. Fragra. vi. 139 ; F. parnassifoUa, R. Br. ; Griseb. in DC. 

 Prod. ix. 136 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 272 (all as to the eastern plant only); 

 MertyantJies exaUata, Sims, I?ot. Ma^^ 1. 1029 : V. exaltata, F. MuelL Fragm, 

 vi. 140. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, :NrorGton Bay, Z Mueller. ,, 



N. S. Wales- Port Jackson, It. Brown, Woolls, and others ; Hastings river, BeckUr. 



Victoria. In marshes and staguaut waters from Gipps' Land, F. Mueller, to tae 

 Glenclg, Robertson. 



Tasmania. Port Dalryraple, R. Brown ; abundant in marshes and lakes, asceuJntg io 

 3000 ft., /. B. Hooler. 



S. Australia. Around St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller, Blandowshl 



Menyanthes sarmentosa, Sims, Rot. Mag. t. 1328, referred Ly Grisebach, through sorne 

 mistake, to Limnanthemun? — .,««^w.v, * ^„ i-„ „ .+„i..»;r«,.,^.ic ^nrrimen ot '- 



remformis. F. reniformis 

 V. parnassifolta. 



um y^wz«rt^w/«, appears to me to be a stoloniferous specimen o - 

 ns, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1533, seems rather to represent the ir 



F. Mueller proposes to take up Sims's specific name of ejcaltaia, because the leaves are 

 rarely truly reniform, hut neither is the stem always tall. 



6. V. parnassifoUa, R. Br. Prod. 457 {partly). A tall erect pliinj 

 with the habit of some of the more slender specimens of V. reni/onnis, W 

 with very much smaller corollas. Eadical leaves on long petioles, o^'^*;^ ^ 

 almost orbicular, entire or siuuate-erenate, slightly cordate or rounded at tn 

 base, mostly under 1 in. long. Flowering stems 1 to 2 ft. high, loosely pa- 

 niculate, leafless except small lanceolate bracts or rarely with a single peW; 

 late ovate-lanceolate leaf at the first branching. Calyx more distnictij 

 obconical at the base than in most species • se"-«ients lanceolate, acute, nbou 

 3 lines long. Corolla yellow, the lobes shortly exceeding the calyx, «it 

 entire margins, but fringed or bearded inside at the base. Anthers huca 

 lanceolate. Ovules numerous. Style in the perfect flowers short and tbit . 



