398 



Lxxx. BORAGiNE^. [^ReUolroplm. 



nate, cohering at tlie tips. Stigmatic cone slender, but sliorter ttiaii llic fili- 

 form st^vle. Nuts minutely pubescent, the segments of the fruiting caljx 

 usually elongated and spreading.— DC. Prod. ix. 547 ; H. f olid am', W. Br. 

 Prod. 493; DC. Prod. ix. 548. 



N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Broim. The sptcimciis of II. 

 follatum seem to me to represent a rather luxurious form of //. bradeatum, with larger, 

 more distinctly petiolate bracts. 



Var. hptostachjum. Diffuse aud much Lranched, 1 ft. long or more. Leaves shortlj 

 petiolate, acute. Style rather shorter. 



Queensland, Cape York, Baemel. 



14. H. pauciflorum, E. Br. Trod. 493. An erect, much-hraBchcd, 

 very hispid, leafy annual, under 6 in. high. Leaves veiy shortly petiolate, 

 linear-lanceolate, with revolute margins, under \ in. long. Flowers shortly 

 pedicellate, rather distant, with leafv bracts between them longer than the 

 calyx, forming single terminal leafy spikes or racemes scarcely scorpioid. 

 Calyx-segments about \\ lines long, lanceolate, hispid, the outer ones rather 

 larger than the inner. Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx, bearded inside 

 at Uie throat, the lobes about as long as the tube. Anthers acuminate, the 

 points cohering by their minutely hairy tips. Stigmatic cone ratherlong, 

 but shorter than the filiform style. Nuts small, scabrous with short hairs.— 

 DC. Prod. ix. 547. 



W. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpeutaria, H. Brmm. 

 Queensland. Suttor River, Thozet ; Nerlvool Creek, Bowman. 



H. conocarpum, T. Muell. In Herb. JRool 



^w.,v.o ^vc^oiic, luiiueuiaie or amiost linear, the margins sligiuiy 

 Jmver ones above | in. long, the upper ones small. Spikes simple oi 

 t he leafy bracts lanceolate, at least as Ion- as the calyx. Cal.vx-segracnts 

 nbout 2 Imcs long, the outer ones lanceohite, the inner narrovv, all densely 

 cilintft, especially at the base. Corolla-tube slender, nearly as long a? the 

 calyx, ventncose above the middle, the throat pubescent 'inside. Anthers 

 acuminate, the points cohering at the tips. Style long and slender, tue 

 sliginatic cone small. Nuts only one ripening 'in each calyx in all tho?" 

 examined, rather large with an acutely conical point, slightly scabrous. Al- 

 bumen scanty as in all the allied species, but the embryo very much curved, noi 

 straight as m the species that ripen the four nuts. 



M. Australia. Sturt's Creek, T. Mueller. 



Ifi. H. filaginoides, BentJi. A dwarf erect much-branched corjmbose 

 plant, apparently shrubby, clothed in every part with a white cottonv-wooi^ 



■n complete with the root, but scarcely 4 in. high. L^^^^ 

 lost imbricate towards tliP Pnrl nf ^nr-h vear's shoot, obion:^ 



the specimen seen 



. i.uuj[jjece witn tlie root, but scarcely 4 in. mi 



crowded and almost imbricate towards the end of each year's sh^-. 

 lanceolate, obtuse, with recurved margins, not 2 lines long. Flowers small- lO 

 dense terminal cymes almost contracted into heads, sessile within the inih"- 

 cate bracts, which are as long as the calvx. Calyx-segments oblong-la^<<«- 

 late, obtuse, rather above 1 line long. ' Corolla not 2 Hues long, the loDe^ 



