470 Lxxxii. soLANE^. [Nkollaua, 



158; N. rotund if oUa, Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 1838, Misc. 59; N. fastigiaia^ 

 Nees in PI. Preiss. i. 343, 



N, Australia. NAY. coast, Bi/noe (with broad cordate leaves) ; Nichol Bay, ^rf- 

 gory' $ E3ri)edition (with small narrow leaves). 



Queensland. Rockhampton and Rockingham Bay, Ballaclnj ; Bowcn river, ^o»- 

 man ; in the intcriorj Mitchell ; Curriwillighi and Armadillo, Halton, 



K. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Bine Mountains, U, Brown and others ; Macleay 

 and Hastings rivers, Beckler ; southward to Kiama, Harve}/ ; in the interior froniLachlan 

 and Darling rivers to the Barrier Range, Victorian and oilier Expeditions, 



Victoria. Port Phillip, G^^o^?2 ;" ^Murray river, F. Mueller; near Ballarat, iT". W. 

 Locker, 



S.Australia, Head of Spencer's Gulf, i?. Brown; Murray river, F. Mueller; 

 Torrens river, Whittaker (very hirsute, with broad leaves and decurrent auriculate petioles); 

 Lake Gillies, Bnrkeit ; abundant at \Vills Creek, HowitCs Expedition, 



W. Australia, Brnmmond ; Murchison and Blackwood rivers, Oldfield, 



I cannot readily distinguish the species from the Chilian N. acuminata, Grah., which is 

 perhaps again the same as ^. an gust if alia, Ruiz and Pav., from the same country. In 

 Australia it varies exceedingly both in foliai^e and flowers, the most marked forms I have 

 seen are the followine :— 



^^ixr. parvijlora. Corolla much under 1 in. long. Leaf-petioles soHietimes auriculatc, 

 soraetmies not. Panicle large and loose.— Queensland and northern part of N. S. AVales. 



Var. lo7ig\flora. Corolla-tube at least 2 in. lone. Leaves various.— In the interior of 

 Queensland and N, S. Wales. 



Var. cordifolia. Leaves almost all cordate. Calyx large with broad lobes. Corolla of 

 the common size (1 to \\ in. long).— N.W. coast, Bynoe. 



N.Neesii, Lehm. in PL Preiss. i. 344, from W. Australia, which I have not seen, is 

 probably a variety of the same species, remarkable for the stem, especially near the base, 

 being densely covered with white wool. 



Oeber LXXXIII. sceophularine^. 



Flowers irregular or seldom nearly regular. Sepals 5, eitlier free or more 

 frequently united in a toothed or lobcd calyx. Corolla usually 2 -lipped, but 

 sometimes ripnrlv i-or,„To^ „-^iu ir .^ _ i . .i g lobes, more or 



less imbricate, and in one tribe folded in tlie bud. Stamens usually 2 or -t, 

 in pairs inserted m tlie tube and alternating with the lower lobes of tbe co- 

 rolla; the fifth stamen, between the 2 upper lobes, usually deficient or rudi- 

 mentary or stciile, very rarely perfect ; anthers 2-cellcd or 1-celled by the 

 confluence of the cells or by the abortion of one of them, the cells opeumg 

 longitudinally. Ovaiy 2-celIed, with several ovules in each cell, attached to 

 a single placenta in the centre of the dissepiment. Style simple with a ^- 

 obed or rarely entire stigma. Fruit a 2-celled capsule or very rarely aj 

 mdehiscent berry. Seeds with more or less of albumen, the testa usual y 

 reticulate or tubereular-rugose, sometimes crustaceous. Embrj'O straight j'^ 

 :^!^^.'"r^^— «e^bs or rarely shrubs or small trees. Leaves usuallj 



nr^rirTc^-t^ / ,- -,, '■ '"Jt^^iy snraos or small trees, o^ca.-- - • 



opposite or veiticiUate) in the lower part of the plant, alternate higher "?. 



tern in.7 ""'' "^ '^^^'"'^^^ °^- "ll «PPO^ite, witLut kipules. Flo^^:ers ^^ 

 er m nal racemes or cymes, or the li4er oAes, rarely all, axillary. Bracts 

 small or none besides the floral leaves, bracteole^ verv rare. 



A large Order widely dispersed oyer every part of the HobI Of the thirty Austr^.^" 

 genera, fourteea belong to the tropical AsiaUclra, several of them exteading into Afr.ca, 



