I 



Dichondra,'] LXXXI. coNVOLVULACEiE. 439 



petioles. Sepals obovate, scarcely 1 line long. Corolla rather shorter tlian 

 tlie calyx, vellow. Carpels also shorter than or rarely as lon^r as the calyx, 

 nearly globular.— R. Br. Prod. 491; Hook. f. PL Tasm. i. 278; Sra. Ic. 

 Ined. t. 8, 



N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong. 



Qneenslaad- Moreton Bay, F, Maeller ; Rockhampton, O'Shamsj/. ^ 



N, S. "Wales. Port Jackson, i?. Brown ; Blue Mountains, Sliss 'Affcinson.^ 



Victoria. Port Phmip^i?. Broion; Wendu vale, Robertson; Yarra nvcr, h. MneUer, 



Mamson ; Ballarook forest, JF^an. 

 Tasmania. Abundant in many parts of the island, /. JD. Hooker, 

 S. Australia. Around St. Vincent's Gulf, F, Mueller, Behr. _ 



W, Australia, Cape le Grand, R, Brown; Vasse river, Oldjield ; also m Urum^ 



bond's collections, n. 86 and 163. 

 The species is generally diffused over the tropical regions of both the New and the Old 



^orld, especially near the sea, extending northward to the southern United Stat« and to 



China, and southward to the Cape of Good Hope, exlrati-opical S. America and .New /.ea- 



I'm /I 



land. 



WILSONIA 



10. WILSONIA, K. iir. 

 Sepals united in a tuLular-cainpanulate sLortlj 5-lobecl or 5-tootlied calyx. 

 Corolla with a slender tube and campanulate 5-lobed limb he lobes imbri- 

 cate iu the bud but with iiiduplicate margins. Ovary 2.celled or a most i- 

 eelled with 1 erect ovule i» each cell (or rarely 2 ?). Style divuled into 3 

 filifonn brnn,.lif^= ^A^^. ^n,^,-fnt^ «ti-frmns. Truit a capsule with i or / stcus. 



ifonn branches with capitate stigmas. Truit^a capsule with 1 or 2 seeds, 

 ■rrostrate mucb-branclied perennials or undershrubs. Leaves cutire, sraa!!. 

 Flowers axillary, sessile or nearly so. Bracts none. 



. The genus is limited to Australia, and almost to the soutliern shores or to the saliue tracts 

 'B the interior. 



Wore or less hairy. Leaves lanceolate ovate or orbicular, rarely 

 above 2 lines long. , . 



'''l^y-pubescent. Leaves very concave, nsually distichously mi- ^ ^ j,,^„ij}^, 



bricate on the brauchlets o W. rotimdii 



Dricate on the brauchlets or. rotundifolia 



Jocosely hairy. Leaves flat, not imbricate „ W. Backhousii. 



Glabrous. Leaves linear, 3 to 6 Hues long 



490. A prostrate much-branched under- 



, 1- W. hnmilis, R. Br. Trod. 490. A prosuaie -"^" ;;; .^ ^ 

 «^^!-ub or shrub, hoai^- nil over witli silky hairs, the ^^erns yre«^^^^^ « fn^^^^ 



6 in. to 1 ft. Leavis crowded, imbricate on the ^^^^^^^^^^^^Xrundcr 

 fj'ally distichous, sessile, ovate "r lanceolate, thick vervo cave from unc 



1 ine to nearly 2 lines long. Flowers sessile f^f^^-J^t^^^o^^. 

 J^^ry, nearly 2 lines long, tlfe teeth or 1°^^^^^^^'^^^^^^^ tube spreading. 



Anthers ovoid or oblong, scarcely exserted. Ovary ^-^^f^\. ^^ ^^ 

 ;f^^n if not always, 2-celled at ^he top. . Cap-le shoUer thau Uiej_ .^^. 

 ^embranous. usually 1-seeded.— Chois. m DC. i lod. x.^ou , 

 ^'■«^s. ii. 237 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 277; F; f ^«S:,^S r " PL t. 



yrkenla cymblfoUa (afterwards corrected to TT. humilis), Hook. 



, VictoHa. Port Phillip, E. Bro.n ; salt marshes near ^^^^^j^r'' ^°' ''^'"^ '' 

 ^"5f"seW, Station l>eak, and salt plains near Mount Abrupt, F. Muelie 

 Tasmania. Great Swan Port, Backhouse. 



