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^^ spreaJuig branches. Lower leaves petiolute, oLovate or oblons:, upper ones narrow. Flowers 

 ,|^ blue, peaicellate, in loose forked cymes. Calyx deeply cleftr Corolla rotate, with a very 

 short tube and short broad erect scales iu the throat opposite the lobes. Anthers exserted, 

 contiivent in a dark-coloured erect cone in the centre of the flower, each filament with au 

 cfect appendage or scale behind the anther. Nuts 4, attached to the convex receptacle by 

 "broad concave base.— About Adelaide iu S, Australia. 



Mumviolaceum, Linn. ; DC. Prod. x. 22. A coarse biennial, hispid with stiff almost 

 pnckly hairs, with large spreading radical leaves. Stems erect but very spreading, with 

 uarraw leaves. Flowers at first purplish, becoming blue, in long one-sided spikes. Calyi 

 d««ply divided. Corolla often 1 ia. long, the tube very open, the limb oblique, with short 

 almost erect teeth or lobes, the stamens protruding and unequal in length. Nuts 4, 

 wrinkled.— Victoria and Tasmania. 



Anchnsa officinalis, Linn.; DC. Prod, x. 42. A coarse, hirsute, erect biennial or 

 pereQnialof about 2 ft. Radical leaves petiolate and often long; stem-leaves lanceolate, 

 tiowers blue, in dense, one-sided forked spikes, which often lengthen considerably, each 

 n'iwer with a small leafy bract at the base. Calyx deeply divided. Corolla-tube closed by 

 ^^J7 P''f'"i;nent scales. ' Stamens included in the tube. Nuts 4, rather large, broad and 

 obtuse, wrinkled, attached to the hemispherical receptacle by their broad concave base.— 

 J^- Australia, 



lUhospermum arvense, Linn. ; DC. Prod. x. 74. An erect hard annual of 1 ft. or more, 

 roore or less hoary with appressed hairs. Leaves narrow lanceolate. Flowers small and 

 ^nite in the upper axils, the upper ones forming terminal leafy cymes. Calyx deeply cleft, 

 orolla With a cylindrical tube, not closed by scales, the lobes spreading. Stamens included 

 ^ ^fae tube. Nuts 4, erect, hard, wrinkled, attached to the slightly convex receptacle by a 

 smail base.— Established in several localities in Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and 



^^traha, probably also iu N. S. Wales, although I have not seen specimens from thence. 



Tribe I. Cordie^.— Ovary entire, with a terminal style. Trees shrubs 

 * ^^rbs. Fruit drupaceous or dry. 



1. COHDIA, Linn. 



Cajyx tubular or campanulate, 5-tootlied or irregularly toothed or lobed. 

 I^orolla-tube cylindrical or funnel-shaped, the limb 5- or sometimes 6- or 

 ^oi-e-lobed. Stamens inserted in the tube ; anthers included or exserted. 

 ^vnry entire, 4-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell ; style terminal, 

 J^ice forked. Emit a drupe, the endocarp hard, with 4 cells or fewer by 

 J^ortiou. Seeds without albumen; testa thin; cotyledons longitudmally 

 okled; radicle superior.— Trees or shrubs, glabrous scabrous-pubescent or 

 iiious. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers in cymes, sometimes contracted 

 /^^o heads, at first terminal, but often becoming lateral by the growth of the 



Bracts small or none, 



^Votif^'l^^'^^'^^ S^ii"s, spread over the tropical regions of both the New and the Old 

 bwi;. ^^ ^^^ t^^ee Australian species, one is common in tropical Asia; another perhaps 

 S ,*^' ^^^'^° Archipelago, the islands of the South Pacific, and the S E. coast of 

 islaiS ^"^tivated only in India ; the third still further confined to the Sonth Pacific 



vlu ^ Y^^' C*^roUa-tnbe much longer than the calyx. Drupe en- 



Ce? '"^ '^^ ^"^^^Scd calyx . . \. C. suhcordafa. 



Tb small. Corolla-tube not ejtceedint^ the calyx. Drupe seated on 

 , the open calyx. ^ 



G 'k '^ vUlons. Calyx cylindrical, strongly ribbed 2. ^. aspera. 



^^^t>rous or scabrons. Calyx campanukre, smooth ...--. 3. C. Mj/xa, 



J- C. snbcordata, Lam.; DC. Prod, ix, 477. A moderate-sized 



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