400 



Lxxx. BORAGiNE.«. {Tlelioiropim 



Victoria river aud Start's CreeTi, F. Mueller: islands of the Gulf of Cariicntaria, ff. 



Brown. 



.^. H Cunninghamii, 2?e«/7<. An erect slender paniculately-branclied 

 annual, hoary with short strigose hairs, evidently near 11. panlcuMum, but 

 the inflorescence more dense and the style different, at least as far as ob- 

 served. Leaves narrow-linear, with revolute margins, nnder 1 in. long. 

 Flowers much closer in the spikes than in H. paniculatum, the bracts very 

 small. Calyx-segments about 1 line long, rather acute. Corolla-tube longer 

 than the calyx, strigose outside, ventricose above the middle, bearded m tue 

 throat. Anthers of //. paniculatum. Style shortly iilifonn, about as long 

 as the long narrow stigmatic cone. . Nuts very small, minutely scabrous- 

 pubescent. 



N. Australia. Dampier's Archipelago, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham. Possibly a va- 

 riety of H. paniculatum, coiiuectiiig it iu some measure with JI. sirigosnm. 



21. H. diversifolium, F. Muell. in Herb. Hook. Stems much 

 branched and decumbent at the base, in some specimens apparently «»""« 

 in others evidently perennial and almost woody at the base, the skiu e 

 flowering branches extending to from 3 or 4 in. to above twice that !>«? 

 strigose with appressed hairs as well as the foliage. Leaves crowded m ine 

 lower part of the stem and on the short sterile branches, petiolate, °^^^^ , 

 ovate-lanceolate, i to i in. long, those of the flowering branches s^iwll an 

 distant, linear or linear-lanceolate. Flowers small, distant, forming lo = 

 slender interrupted spikes, with a few small bracts, usually much belo'.\ c^^^ 

 flower. Calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, strigose, above 1 hue long, 

 rolla-tube 1^ lines long, ventricose above the middle, shortly bearded m 

 throat, the lobes shorter than the tube. Anthers acuminate, the P"'.'"^ .j^ 

 hering by tlie minutely-hairy tips. Style long and filiform, the .^"gin ^ ^ 

 ring undulate or lobed, with a short central coue. Nuts very nispi , 

 deep cavity on each side of the central angle of the inner face. 



N. Australia, Cygnd Bay, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham, Bynoe ; Start's Cree', 



Mueller. 



6. HALGAlSriA, Gaudich. 



searments 



rotate with 5 broad lobes in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted in the tiiroai, i ^^^ 

 ments very short and flat; anthers erect, connate in a short ^^ "'^igj^gs 

 tracted into a long straight beak, formed of the linear terminal appeuo^^ 

 of the anthers, enclosing the style. Ovary entire, 4-celled, with 1 FU^.^ ^^ 

 ovule iu each cell; style terminal, filiform, with a minute stigma. / ^jt]ia 

 or the exocai-p very slightly succulent, separating into 2 cai^pels, eac ^^^^^. 

 crustaeeous 2-celle'd endocarp. Seeds 1 in each cell, more or ^"^^^ ^"'^ijj.ubs, 

 embryo terete, straight.— rndershrubs or small much-branched s ^^^^ 

 rarely entirely herbaceous, more or less toraentose or hirsute, or ■ ^ ^^ 

 brous. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers blue purple or "^^ • ' g k- 

 rather large and showy, in terminal or at length lateral cymes, some ^^^^ 

 duced to short sitnple spikes or almost to single flowers. Bracts ie\ 



The genus is limited to Australia. The flowers, inrludiiig the ovary and style, a 



