432 Lxxxi. coNVOLVULACE.E. [Polymeria. 



stip;matic lobes^ in all the species except P, dhtigma^ are incrc^iseil in number, probably by 

 their division. Several of the species here enumerated run much one into the other, and 

 thej might all well be reduced to two or three. 



Leaves linear or laaceolate. 



Leaves glabrous above, fringed with silky hairs. Flowers nearly 1 in, 



long, the sepals very unequal 1. P. marfjlnala. 



Leaves silky or hoary or glabrous on both sides. Sepals nearly equal. 

 Stigmatic lobes C to 8. 



riowers about f in. loug. Stems usually erect 2. P. longifoha. 



Flowers about \ in. long. Stems usually dilfusc 3. P. angusta. 



Stigmatic lobes 2. Stems erect. Peduncles 2-flowercd ... 4. P. disiigma. 

 Leaves cordate, ovate or oblong. 



Outer sepals orbicular-cordate, inner ones narrow 5. P. cahjcina. 



Sepals nearly equal. 



Stem and leaves usually villous or pubescent. Sepals about 3 lines 



long , , 6. P. amhtgna. 





Milch 



percumal stock erect, slightly branched, usually about 1 ft. high or shorter 

 pubescent or villous as well as the foliage with appressed silky hairs. Leaver 

 almost sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, mucronate-acute, minutely hastate 



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at the base, often above 2 in. long. Peduncles 1-flowered, shorter thari the 

 leaves. Sepals oval-oblong, more or less acuminate or acute, about 3 lines 

 long, all nearly equal. Corolla pink, usually about f iu. long, but sometimes 

 smaller. Stigmatic lobes usually 6, but sometimes 7 or 8. 



Queensland. Near the Gwydir, Mitchell ■ "i--- -f *»- r^r„Um\ne.. Leichhafat; 

 Suttor, Isaacs. Bowen rivers, etc.. Bowman: 

 -liar ton. 



Condamine, ^"''"""'r.,' 

 Sutherland; ArniadUlo, 



N. S. Wales ? Betweea Darling river and Cooper's Cfcuk, Neilion (referable par 

 naps to P. angusta). '■ 



ine i^ueensland specimens 

 smaller flowers. 



\ ?.*/''^^*^> ^- ^«'^«- F'-cgm. vi. 100 {r>artly). A perennial appa- 

 rently diffuse or prostrate, softly and densely silky-hairv, otherwise very near/- 

 longxfoUa and perhaps a variety. Leaves mostly nearlv sessile and lanceolate 

 or hnear the lower ones more distinctly petiolate and 'cordate at the base, au 

 silky on both sides. Flowers much smaller than in P. lomifolia. Sepal' 



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btem slender. Leaves small or linear, nearly glabrous. Sepals 



about 2 lines long 7. F.jiusilla, 



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1. P. marginata, Benth. Stems erect, under 1 ft. hi^h, loosely hir- 

 sute. Lower leaves petiolate, oljlong, obtuse, deeply cordate, under 2 in. 

 long, upper ones nearly sessile, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, sli^btlj ^ 

 cordate, 2 to 4 in. long, all glabrous on both sides, except a few hairs on the ^ 

 veins underneath, but the margins elegantly fringed with rather long hairs. 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 1-flbwered, with linear bracts above the 

 middle. Outer sepals broadly lanceolate, acute, 5 or even 6 lines long, the 

 2 innermost smaller and much naiTower. Corolla nearly 1 in. long. Stig- 

 matic lobes about 8. 



Queensland. In the interior, MitchelL This may possibly prove to be a very marted 

 variety of P. longlfoUa, notwithstanding the differences" in the indumentnm and calj'X aua 

 the large flowers. 



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