Tricliodesma :] LXXX. boragine^. -iO^ 



Var. lailsepalum, F. Muell. Calyx-scginents short and broad, almost cordate but not 

 aariculate.— Hoolver's and Sturt^s Creeks and Bardekin river, F. Mueller, 



Var, sericeum. Stem and foliage very hoary with a close soft tomentura.—r. ^^^/^^«'f ; 

 Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 258.— Victoria river, F. Mtceller ; Belyando river, MitchelL 



The species is common in the E, Indian peninsula, in Ceylon, and in tropical Africa. 



Tribe II. Borage^.— Ovary 4- or 2-lobecl, the style inserted between 

 the lobes and more or less lateral or basal with reference to the carpels. 

 Herbs or very rarely, in species not Australian, sbrubs, Pruit separable into 

 4 or 2 small nuts, leaving a persistent flat convex conical or rarely elongated 

 receptacle or axis. 



8. MYOSOTIS, Linn. 



(Exarrhena, iZ. Br^ 



Calyx deeply divided into 5 segments or, in species not Australian, 

 S-toothed. Corolla with a cylindrical tube, with 5 small scales m the throat 

 the limb spreading, 5-lobed. Stamens inserted in the tube ; anthers includal 

 or exserted. Ovary 4-lobed ; style filifonn, inserted between the lobes; 

 stigma small, usually capitate. Nuts 4, smooth and shining, erect attaciiea 

 J'y a small basal area. Seeds without albumen; radicle short.— Heibs 

 usually hispid. Leaves entire. Flowers blue or white, m simple or torked 

 one-sided spikes or racemes, without bracts. 



. The genus is chiefly abundant in the temperate regions of the noi 

 "ally in the Old World, more rare in North America, tropical Asia, 

 i^oiisof the southern hemis ' " '^' "'" *"•" *"«^™l'aii sMci 



other is endemic. 



orthcrn hemisphere, cspe- 

 and in the extratropical 



Piorin AllieiiLa, i,iw|<i^". " — ,_ • J„ 4„ Wow 



Of the two Australian si^ecies, one extends to New 



Corolla-lobes shorter than the tube. Anthers included or the tips ^ ^^^i^^Hs 



scarcely protruding. (Flowers very small) . • • • • • ' ' ^' j^,\^aveolens. 

 CoroUa-lobes as long as the tube. Anthers wholly exserted . . , . 'i- M. suaieoiens. 



, 1- M. australis, R. Br. Frod. 495. An erect or diffuse hj^pld amiuaj 

 (or perennial ?), the stems usually branching from the base sometimes slendei 

 f "d under 6 in. high, sometimes long and weak, extending o 1 or 2 ft Lower 

 kaves on long petioles, from obovate- oblong to oblanceolate or linea jath^^^^ 

 l^te, the steal ones more sessile and smaller, the uppermos ^"^f »"« J/J^ 

 f^all sessile and eordate-o vate. Flowers small, white or J'^W^^^j^ (^J f, J 

 l''"e?), in seorpioid spikes at first dense but at l?"Sth often long and it.ter 

 ;"Pted. Calyx-segments narrow-lanceolate, hispid with ^^^^f^^k'the 

 H line lon^' Corolla-tube rather longer than t^^e caiyx th scales otb 

 tt'-oat obtuse and notched, the lobes short, broad, obtuse or ''etuse Ami e s 

 l^ Btyle included in the lube or the tips slight y protruding^ ?r it/ / 

 t^l»an the calyx.-DC. Prod. x. 110 ; Hook. f. FL Tasm. i. 2 / 9 ; Jf. damaiea, 

 Ubm. PI. pj.^i53_ . 3,^8_ 



J- S. Wales. Paterson's Eiver, R. Brcn ; Blue Mountains, A. and R. Cunmn.U. 



Australian Alps, ascending to 

 innV'°"'^- Weudu Vale, p-'— '•-^" ■ '•nn.mon m luu ausiraiiuii i 



*"00 to 5000 ft., F. Mueller. 



Rob 



-^ ^^ ^m\i n., F. Mueller. „ „ .nmmon everywhere, as- 



Tasmaaia. Port Dairy mple and Derwent river, R. Brown; common eve J 



"^^^iDg to 4000 ft., /. i). /Livr. „ „ 



«»• Australia, Gtiiclien Bay, Lofty Kaage, f. Mueller 



