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^iinithlS.] LXXXIII. SCROPIIULAKINEiE. 4S3 



long, dilated upwards, ilie lobes all broad and as long as the tube, tlie upper 

 ones not much shorter than the lower. Capsule nearly globular, about 2 

 lines diameter, the valves readily splitting.— Beuth. in^DC. Prod. x. 373 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i, 290 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5423. 



N. S. ^Vales. Manly Beach, WooUs ; Blue Mountains and Illawarra, A. Claming^ 

 *«w; Darling river, xAWjd^w. 



Victoria. Swamps on the Murray, about Melbourne, etc., F, Mueller and others; 



Portland, J//z7/. 



Tasmania. Port Dalryniple, R. Brown; common in saline situations, on muddy banks 

 of rivers, etc., J. D. Hooker. 



S. Australia- Near Kaiserstuhl, towards Mount Remarkable, -F. Mueller. 

 , .^. Australia. Murchison river, Oldjieldy Dnmmondy Wi colL^ n. 129 (apparently 

 tins species, but the specimens not good). 



. The species is also in New Zealand. The habit and foliage is often that of smaller spe- 

 cimens of Hetyesiis Monnieria^ but the calyx and corolla are very different. 



M. prostratn 



A small diffuse or 



if. 



Ij'quently rooting at the joints, the whole plant rarely exceeding 2 or 3 in., 

 . branches and peduncles and often the foliage also pubescent and some- 



jnies slightly glandular. Leaves sessile, narrow-oblong, obtuse, entire, 1 to 

 ^'' rarely 3 lines long, resembling those rather of M. gracilis than of M, 



^^ens. Pedicels filiform, usually longer than the leaves, and sometimes f in. 



^^g. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, with short acute teeth. Corolla-tube at 

 east twice as long as the calyx, aud more slender than in the other Austra- 



, species. Capsule obloiW, shorter than the calyx, the valves usually 

 entire. r o^ j ' 



fcn8k^^^®^^^^- ^<^l^hara scrub, Leichliardt (with rather long leaves, attaining 3 hnes, 

 °'U the specimens imperfect). 



. . ■ "Wales. Lachlaii river, A, Cunninqham; Murray and Darling rivers, i)£^//rt'^//y, 

 ^ortm ExpedUion ; Mount Murchison, Boune^. 

 ' ■**^stralia. S. of Wills' Creek, HotcMs Expedition. 



m\h^\^f^' ^ragm. vi. 103, from my character in the 'Prodromus' (in which I had 

 Ibis -th Pnhescence, having overlooked it in Cunningham's imperfect specimens), nnites 

 Ita^ ^^' ^'S'/^^wj, the specimens were, however, referred in his collections to M, gracilis, 

 ffrfl^r ^-^ 1" me to be perfectly distinct from M, repens in its foliage and capsule, from M. 

 trac ■ ^^ **^ "^"'^^'^ prostrate habit, and from both in the pubescence, of which there is no 

 coroV" ^^y o^hcr Australian species^ as well as in the longer and more slender tube of the 



MAZUS 



^7%^ broadly campanulate, 5-lobed. Corolla with the upper lip erect, 

 ^ jJJ^' ^^ortly bifid; the lower lip much larger, spreading, broadly 3-lobed, 

 anth ^^^^'^* pi'otuberances at its base in the throat. Stamens 4, all fertile ; 

 j^^ t!^^"^^11 3 contiguous, at length divaricate. Style with 2 ovate equal stig- 

 l^^^' "^.^^^- Capsule globular or compressed, obtuse, opening loculicidally 

 ^ entire valves. — Low herbs. Lower leaves opposite, the upper ones 

 solh "^^^' oi' all nearly rosulate. Flowers in terniinal one-sided racemes or 



Th 



^ust r^^^"^ comprises a small number of tropical and east Asiatic species, besides the 

 ^^Uaa one, which only extends to New Zealand. 



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