Evliolropum!] Lxxx. bouagine^. Sljg 



about as long as tlie tube, with a ring of hairs in tlie throat. Anthers 

 acuminate with long exserted points, connected by the minute hairs of their 

 tips. Style very short, the stigmatic ring broad and cup-shaped^ with a 

 siiiall central cone. Fruit not seen. 



S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, Iloiciifs Expedition. 



17. H, ventricosum, R. Br, Prod. 494. An erect corymbosely- 

 branched annual of | to 1 ft., becoming diffuse when old, hirsute with rigid 

 Jtngose or spreading hairs. Leaves narrow-linear, acute, with revolute luar- 

 gins rarely above \ in. lon^. Flowers in short compact spikes, interspersed 

 with long leaf-like bracts, all as well as the calyxes very hispid. Calvx-seg- 

 ments narrow, shorter than the corolla-tube. Corolla-tube about 2 lines long, 

 fHder to above the middle, ventricose below the throat, which is pnbesceut 

 |nside. _ Anthers small, acuminate, the points connected by the minutely 

 Jairy tips. Style long and filiform, with a short stii^matic cone. Fruit 

 tipped by the persistent base of the style, the nuts small, minutely strio-ose 

 or nearly glabrous.— DC, Prod. ix. 547. 



N. Australia. Depot Creek, Victoria river, F. Mueller; Gulf of Carpentaria, B. 

 "™™; i'ort Lssington, Armstrong^ Leichhardf. 

 Queensland. Port Denison, 'Fiizalan, 



18. H. tenuifolium, E. Br. Prod, 494. Stems erect, branching, liard 

 or a most woody at the base, 1 ft. high or more, more or less hoary as well 



the iohage with short appressed hairs. Leaves linear, acute or almost 



o»3tu3e, with revolute margins, f to U in. long. Flowers distant, forming in- 



wupted once- or twice-forked spikes, interspersed especially at the base with 



ew bracts, which are I'arely entirely wanting. Calyx glabrous or strigosc, 

 tile ^^jf"^^^*^^ ^'^^'.V acute, about 2 lines long, the 2 outer ones often larger tlian 

 others. Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx, ventricose above the 

 the t !* *'y bearded in the contracted throat, the limb nearly as long as 

 tiDs *^^' "^"^^^^^'^ acuminate, the points cohering by their minutely hairy 

 Pn't {^^ slender, the stigma broadly 4-Iobed with a small central cone, 



"t tipped by the persistent base of the style, the nuts slightly scabrous- 



I ^'>escent. Embryo usually curved.— DC. Prod. ix. 547- 



BnJ ^^*''*^^^- "Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 72. 

 Q^'J '"*^ <^" tl)e main land, Lamhhorongh. 



^iisland, Sutter river, F, Mueller^ Bowman \ Bowen river, Boicman. 



l,^^^- ^* P^^^culatum, n. Br. Prod. 494. Erect and pauiculately 

 less ] • . ^^^'^ ^^^^ habit of II. femiifoUiiui^ but much more slender, more or 

 zwr *""!> • ^^ nearly glabrous. Leaves linear-filiform, with revolute mar- 

 p] ' ^iiicles at length very divaricate, with dichotomous filiform branches. 

 Calvx^l r^^^ ^^ch smaller than in II. tennifoUnm^ but otherwise similar, 

 ratlier 1 ^^^^' strigose, with acutely acuminate segments. Corolla-tube 



^^vle of^^/f^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ calyx, ventricose above the middle. Stamens and 

 Pube-r f ^^^^^M'^^^^' Niits small, ovoid, acute, very shortly scabrous- 

 ix. 548 ^~^*^- ^'^^- ^^' ^*^ 5 H. glabellum, R. Br. Prod. 494 • DC. Prod. 



'*«tralia. York Sound, N.W, coast, A. Cimninglmm ; Cygnet Bay, Bynoe ; 



