Ediolr opium,'] Lxxx. boragine^i:. 397 



N.Australia. Victoria river, P. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria and 

 opposite mainland, R. Brown, Henne^ Landshorough. 



Queensland, Port Deuison, Fltzalan ; Hockingham and Edgecombe Bays, D all achy ; 

 Rockhampton, OShanesy ; Broad Sound, Nerkool Creek, Boweu river, Bowman, 



S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, Hotvitfs Expedition ; all over central Australia, 

 ^noaall Stuart. 



Var. oblongifoliurn, DC. Erect slender and not much hranclied, the leaves narrower and 

 bs obtuse.— F. ^rm/^, R. Br. Prod. 493.— Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, i2. Brown; 

 Keppel Bay, Thozet. 



The species is common in tropical and northern Africa and East India. 



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11. H. strig03um, JVilld.; BO. Prod. ix. 51G. An erect or diffuse 

 rauch-branched annual, more or less hoary or sprinkled with appressed rigid 

 hairs. Leaves linear, obtuse or scarcely acute, with revolute margins, under 

 1 in.^ long. Plowers small, distant, forming slender interrupted scarcely 

 scorpioid spikes, interspersed with small bracts, at least in the lower part. 

 Calyx-segmeuts about 1 line long, strigose-hispid, rather obtuse, the outer 

 OT^es broader than the inner. Corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx, slightly 

 swollen round the anthers, the throat bearded inside; lobes rather shorter 

 than the tube. Anthers acuminate, cohering by the tips of the points. 

 ^tyle short, the stigmatic cone broad, about as long as tlie style. Nuts 

 nearly globular, shortly pubescent. 



». Australia. Cy^'aet Bav, N.W. coast, A. Cmningham ; Hooker's Creek, P. 

 ^mller, ' 



Queensland. Bowen river, Bowman, 

 ^The species is widely spread over the warmer regions of northern Africa and westera 



12- H. prostratum, R. Br. Prod. 494. Steins prostrate, 1 to 2_ft. 

 p?: m the specimens seen, strlc^ose as well as the foliage with short hairs. 

 ^-^J^es distant, liuear-lanceolate^ or lanceolate, acute, contracted at the base 

 ^^ scarcely petiolate, flat or the margins scarcely recurved, i to 1 m long. 

 1 T^F^ distant, iu a loug interrupted terminal spike, the bracts oblong, 

 '^]h but scarcely exceedinj^ the calyx. Calyx-segments lanceolate, obtuse, 

 jy^^^^ H line long. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx, ventricose at or 

 2^1 the middle, bearded in the throat ; limb longer than the tube, broadly 

 i'r^ shortly lobed. Authors acuminate and cohering at the^ tips btig- 

 ^^ticconc about half as long as the filiform style.-DC. Prod. ix. 548. 



tinjj^^^t'-^ia. Island, of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Apparently a ver)^ dis- 

 I ^i*^s, but the specimeua seen not numerous. 



2\ ^- bracteatum, R. Br. Prod. 493. A liispid annual, either erect 

 hil '''■^'chiiig or with several steins asceiulinjr from the base, under 1 It. 

 tifi; ^^^^^ 'nofe or less petiolate, lanceolate, rather acute, narrowed at 

 W i^f* «r the marolns slightly recurved, from under ^ to about ^^ in. 

 nio?: ^P''^'^^ terminal, leafy, 1-sided but scarcely scorpion!, the leafy bracts 

 lonl"'.!^^'' P'^tiolate or very much contracted at the base as long as or 

 Cl?'f ^^'^ ™'yx. Cal/x-segment3 lanceolate, about U Imes Jong- 

 tlie t : :^f i-ather shorter than the calyx, ventricose at or below the middle, 

 'tl^roat bearded inside, the lobes shorter than the tube. Anthers acunii- 



