Bj-cweria.] Lxxxi. convolvulace.e. 437 



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roUa above i in. long, liairy outside. Ovary hirsute at tlie top with long 

 hairs. Style divided to about the middle.— Chois. in DC. Prod. ix. 433. 



N. Australia, Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, H. Brown ; Victoria river, F. 

 Mte/ler (very densely hirsute) ; Port Essingtou, Armstrong (the hairs rather shorter). 



7. CRESSA, Linn. 



Corolla tubular^campanulate ; lobes 5, contorted (or otherwise imbricate?) 

 in the bud, not plicate. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; styles 

 2, distinct from the base, each with a capitate stigma. Capsule usually 2- 

 valved and 1-seeded by abortion.— A small branching perennial. Leaves 

 Mtire. Flowers small, in terminal leafy spikes or heads. 



The gernis is limifca to a single species, common to the warmer regions of the New as 

 '^ell as the Old World. 



L C. cretica, Linn. ; Chois. in DC. Prod. ix. 440. An erect or dif- 

 fuse, much-branched perennial, sometimes almost woody at the base, rarely 

 exccedin- 6 in., hoary silky-pubescent or villous all over. Leaves sessde or 

 the lower ones shortly petiolatc, ovate-lanceolate, or ni specimens not Aus- 

 tralian linear, entire, rarely exceeding 4^ in. Flowers sessile in terramal leaty 

 spikes or heads, rarely reduced to a single flower. Sepals broadly obovate, 

 ^■ery obtuse, ciliate, about 2 lines long. Corolla veiy shortly exceeding 

 'he calyx, hairy outside. Anthers large, oblong. Ovary villous Cap- 

 sule ovoid, exceeding the calyx, rarely ripening more than one smooth seca. 

 -C. ctiistralis, R. Br. Prod. 490. 



. W. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; mouth of the Victoria 



^^'lev, F. Mueller ; AlheH Tiver, E'e?ine. „ ^ . nr nn 



Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Broicn; sandy flats, Port Deuison, W. MM. 

 N- S. Wales. Murray and Darling deserts, Victoriaji Expedition 

 S. Australia. Suhsaline pastures, Mui-ray river to St. Vincent s Gulf, F Mueller. 

 W. Australia, Drummond^ n. 131. 

 The species is abundantly spread over sandy maritime or saline ^istriets m the warmer 



"pons of the Old and New World, extending to the ^^'^'^''^f "'•^'''^.^S'^U S°not 

 \he flowers in some of the tropical Australian specimens are larger tha.i usual, but 



wise different. 



8. EVOLVULITS, Linn. 



^ Corolla eampannlate or tubular at the base, the l^mb f-^^g^'^'', ^[ ^j'^^^^^ 

 Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 2, fil'f«™J>!^'^^ ^^ 

 [l^e base, each divided into 2 branches ; stigmas linear, termmat ng each 



J^«ncb. Fruit a capsule, with 4 seeds or fewer by f "'-^'^^'X us'uallv 

 ^^ning, annual or with a sh.rt perennial stock leaves eiti.e,usj^aly 

 ^"lall. Flowers small.on axillary peduncles or in terminal spiUs or racemes. 



A considerable tropical American genus, of which one or two>!JeB ^^J f ^f^t^mL" 

 fte wa,-mer regions of the Old World! The only Australian species is the one most 



'"e wanner regions of the Old World. 

 °^« the whole area. 



'T^ort almost woody Itock, but often flowering the A^^t ^'-^^^f/^ 7o4 C 



mini „ -xl ^ , \ ..__x_.,4.. ^^ z^vni^. ^fPlHS. 6 III. tO 1 U- i"«^> 



iilky-liain\ Leaves usually 



