306 LXXX. BORAGINE^. 



[IleliotroplurA. 



8. H. bracliygyne, Bmth. Diffuse or mucTi branclied and liirsute, 

 probably annual, some specimens almost erect and scarcely 6 in. liigb, otbers 

 very diffuse with branches of above 1 ft. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear, 

 obtuse, with revolute margius, naiTowed at the base but sessile, under a in. 

 Ion- not nearly so crowded as in H. vesUiim. Flowers few m the upper- 

 most axils, forming very short leafy spikes, the floral leaves or bracts as long 

 as or longer than the calyx. Calyx-segments about li lines long, rather 

 obtuse and somewhat unequal. Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx, not 

 ventricose nor bearded in the throat ; lobes shorter than the tube. Anthers 

 with rather long connivent points. Style very short, witli a broad thick 

 stigma and a very small central cone. Pruit depressed-globular, the nuts 

 scabrous, 



Queensland, Mitchell; Biirnett river, F. Mueller. Near S. vestitum, but the leaves 

 arc not imbricate, the flowers much smaller, the style much shorter, etc. 



9. H. epacrideum, F. Muell in Herb. Hook. An erect, bartl, miicli- 

 branclied annual of 6 to 8 in., looking almost woody at the base, the 



branches rather softly pubescent or \nllons. Leaves crowded, sessile, ovate 



nients ovate, obtuse, ciliate, about 1:^ lines lon^. Corolla very vi lous, me 



tube very short, the tliroat glabrous inside; lobes longer than the calyx, 

 convolute towards the end. Anthers very shortly acuminate. Stigma veiy 

 broad and thick, almost sessile on the ovary, with au exceedingly sUor 

 truncate and pubescent central cone. 



N. Australia. Start's Creek, F. Mueller, 



Sect. III. Schletdenia.- Stigma a thick ring round a central cone or 

 point as in Euheliolropiiim. Corolla-tube usually swollen round the '^^*^^!^^' 

 the throat bearded or pubescent inside. Anthers acuminate, cohering by 

 minutely hairy lips. 



The characters are precisely those of the genus Schleidenia as defined by Tresenmb t 

 Mart. Fl. Bras.) on S. American species. 



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dif- 



^ . __. ovalifolmm, ForsJc. ; R. Bt\ Prod, 493. A procumbent or d^^ 

 fuse annual, hoary or white all over with appressed rigid or silky bairs. ^^^J 

 petiolate, oval obovate or oblong, very obtuse in the commou form, enti > 

 the veins not very prominent, mostly f to 1 in. long. Spikes rather ^^^^^^^ 

 simple or once-forked, without bracts. Calyx-segments hirsute, not i n^ 

 long, one much broader than the other four. Corolla-tube hirsute, not i ui 

 lung, the throat bearded inside with a ring of reflexed hairs sonietim ^ 

 reduced to very few ; lobes rather shorter than the tube. Anthers msei^ ^^ 

 below the middle of the tube, ovate, acuminate, the points nearly ^^^°"^.^.^ 

 the cells and usually cohering at the tips by minute terminal tufts of i^^^^^^ 

 Stigma with a linear-conical point, longer than the very short style. ^^^ 

 small, hispid. — H. coram andelianum, Retz; DC. Prod, ix- 541; V^ig^i 

 L 1388. 



