Ediolroplim.'] LXXX. boragine^. 305 



2 in. loner. Spikes short and dense/once- or sometimes twice-forked, rarely 

 simple, without bracts. Calyx-segraeuts linear or lanceolate, hispid, 2 lines 

 long, CoroUa-tube shortly exceeding the calyx, the throat gh^brous inside; 

 lobes much plicate, very broad, expanding to \ in. diameter. Anthers 

 oblong, very shortly acuminate. Style filiform ; stigmatic cone long aiul 

 narrow, but shorter than the style. — DC. Prod. ix. 543 ; H.foUatum, Lehni. 

 PI. Preiss. ii. 238 (from the description given) not of E. Br. 



S.Australia. Head of Spencer's Gulf, R. Broivn ; sterile rocky auj sandy places, 

 Hinders' Range, Cuduaka, etc., F, Mueller ; Mount Searle, Warburton. 

 W. Australia, Dnunmoud, Uh ColL w. 337, Maxwell. 



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5. H. crispatum, F. MuelL Herb. Much hranehed and very hispid. 

 Leaves on rather long petioles, ovate, acute or ohtuse, rugose, with unduhate 

 iiiar^ins, J to 1^ in. long. Spikes dense, forked or simple, very hispid, 

 ^itliout bracts. Flowers large as in //. asperriminn. Calyx-segments linear, 

 2 lines long at the time of flowering, 3 lines when in fruit, one usually rather 

 larger than tlie others. Corolla-tube hispid, scarcely exceeding the calyx, 

 the throat glabrous inside ; lobes nearly as long as the tube. Anthers ob- 

 long, veiy shortly acuminate. Style 'filiform; stigmatic cone long and 

 Barrow, but shorter than the style. 'Kuts much shorter than tlie calyx, the 

 seed-bearing part tuberculate,'but one side, almost one half, of each nut 

 smooth and empty. 



^- Australia. N.AV. coast, Bijnoe ; Ilammersley Range, Maitland Brown, The 

 i^vea are nearly those of //. earopceum, but much raore rugose ; the flowers more like those 



offf 



a^pernmu?n. 



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An erect liard annual, look- 



. "• xi. lasciculatum, K. isr. rrocl.. 4y4. An ereci naru imiuuii, luutv- 

 ing almost woody at tlie base, with rigid divaricate branches and hispid with 

 '■'Sid, half-spread'ing hairs. Leaves rather crowded, sessile, liuear-lanceolate 

 Of lanceolate, acute, with thickened nerve-like rigidly ciliate margins, all 

 «scept a few on the main stem under \ in. long. Flowers few, scattered, 

 *«ssile amongst the upper floral leaves, scarcely forming leafy spikes. Calyx- 

 seginents lanceolate, rather acute, hispid, above 1 line long. Corolla hirsute, 

 tfie tube rather longer than the calyx, the throat glabrous inside. Anthers 

 ^^ate-triangular, scarcely acuminate. Style terete, more than twice as long 

 as the ovary ; stigma very troad, the thick cone rather shorter than the 

 ««yIe.-DC;Prod. ix. 547. 



N. Australia. Rocky sandstone ranges. Victoria river, F. Mueller; islanas of the 

 C«lfofCarpeutaria,i2.i?.L«. 



. 7- H. vestitam, Benth. Erect, branching, densely hirsute with spread- 

 »g hairs. Leaves crowded, almost imbricate, sessile, lanceolate, with slightly 

 jecurved margins, about \ in. long. Flowers few, sessile withm the last 

 noral leaves, which are as long as the calyx, forming dense leafy spikes. 

 J;»Jvx-segments liuear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, villous, about 2 lines long, 

 ^'^folla villous, rather longer tlian the calyx, the tube very short, the throat gla- 

 "jo^is mside. Anthers with rather long connivent points. Ovarj- tapering 

 ■^^0 a style twice as long as itself, the stigmatic cone very short. 



tin?" ^- '^'^'a.les, Clowes in Herb. Hook., the precise station not given. A very dis- 

 at S '^"'''''' '^'''^ ^^^ ^i^mms almost of the section Schleiclenia, but the corolla-tube is not 

 '^''atricose and quite glabrous inside. 



