402 LXXX. BORAGiNEiE. [Sahjania. 



in. Anthers pubescent, t1ie beak longer than the cells. "Fruit oblong, 

 shorter than the calyx, transversely rugose when dry. — DC. Prod. x. 177. 



'W. Australia. Sliarfcs' Bay, Gaudichaud^ BenJiam ; Diik ITartog's Island. ^^. Cun- 

 ningham; Swan and Murchison riverSj Brummondy n. 52, 653, aiid 6M Coll. n. 132. 



Var. gJahnfoUa, Leaves rather broad and quite glabrous.—/?. Behrana, F. Muell. 

 Fra-in. i. 209.— Sonlb Hiitt river and Port Gi-egoiy, Oldjield. 



Drummoiid, n. 122, appears to be a small-leaved form of the same species, which is a 

 very variable onej and several of our specimens are very indifferent. 



H. corymb 



Erect and not much 



branched, apparently herbaceous but with a hard base, 1 to 1| ft. high, hir- 

 sute all over with long spreading hairs. Leaves from liuear-cuneate to 

 ohlong-lauceohite, coarsely and acutely toothed, contracted at the base. 

 Cymes corymbose, with few elongated' branches, sometimes almost reduced 

 to simple 1-sided racemes. Calyx-segments linear, acute, 8 to 4 lines long. 

 Corolla of a deep blue, as Large as in II. littoralis, but the lobes much more 

 acute. Fruit of H. UUoraUs, but the carpels appear sometimes to open longi- 

 tudinally at the ci\gQ. ' 



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Swan River, Drummo?id, 1st ColL n. 32. 



or diffuse branching stems 



'enth. Apparently an undershrub, with asceiuhng 



-o ~ , hirsute as well as the folian,-e with appressed or 



scarcely spreading hairs, the upper leaves as well as the inflorescence and 

 calyx more or less densely silky with white hairs. Leaves narrow-oblong or 

 linear, all but the uppermost bordered with a few distant teeth, not so acute 



Cymes 



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«« ... .^. ^^,y/«L.iyo(A, luusLiy -^ 10 i in. long or rareiy longer. \jy^^<' — 

 inany-flow(ired. Calyx-lobes narrow and acute, and corolla of a deep hhie 

 Avith acute lobes as in //. corf/mhosa, but the flowers altogether usually smaller, 

 xruit not seen. 



W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. 



... *-». jrreissiana, Lehm. PL Prelss. i. 347. An undershrub, witli a 

 thick woody stock and numerous slightly branched stems, or a more branch- 

 ing slmib, the stem and foliage sprinkled with short appressed rigid hairs, '^ 

 m II. strigosa, but with less of the scabrous glandular indumentum. Leaves 

 trom obovate to oblong-cuueate, more or less condnplicate, the end anc 

 inargins undulate, with very prominent and acute teeth, much contracted at 

 tlie base or shortly petiolate, i to 1 in. long. Cymes loose and few-floTVcreci. 

 Plowers usually but not always larger than in R. drigosa, with the same 

 acute calyx-segments and bright blue corolla. 



^ ■Wellington Valley and Croker's Range, A, Cunningham ; Nevv Bug- 



MTale 



Banee 



I&U^H P '"^ ^'-"fSe's Souad. Ro,, Preiss, wlii.h I huve not seen, must be uuriy 



it , l!nf ; ^{TT""' '"''^ '^"^ ^^^^''t!"' characters the same, but with the leaves only U 

 lines long, and the flowers very small. 



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