484 LXXXIII. SCROPHULAUINE^. [Maziis. 



1. M. pumilio, R. Br. Prod, 439, A small perennial, with a creeping 

 rhizome. Stems very sliort or scarcely any besides the peduncle. Leaves 

 forming an erect tuft or spreading rosette, from obovate and not ^ in. long 

 to oblong and above 2 in. long, all obtuse, irregularly sinuate-toothed or 

 rarely entire, contracted into a petiole, sprinkled with a few hairs on^ the 

 upper surface, glabrous or nearly so underneath, rarely glabrous on both sides. 

 Scapes or peduncles leafless, usually exceeding the leaves, bearing either a 

 single flower or a loose raceme of very few flowers on long pedicels. Bracts 

 very few and minute, scattered more frequently on the pedicels than on the 

 peduncle, and often entirely wanting. Calyx ahout 2 lines long, the lobes 

 narrow, shorter than the tube, enlarged and more deeply lobed after flowering. 

 Corolla-tube scarcely exceeding the calyx ; lobes of the lower lip longer than 

 the tube. Capsule enclosed in the calyx.— Benth. in DC Prod. x. 375 ; 

 Hook. f. FL Tasm. i. 290 ; Endl. Iconogr. t. 102 i Hook. Ic. PL t. 567 (the 

 flowers too small). 



N. S. ^Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, BecMer ; Archer's Station, LekhhariU. 



Victoria. Ovens river, Plenty Ranges, Dandenong Mountains, Wilson's Promontory, 

 K Mueller; FItzroy river, Robertson ; Portland, Allitt, 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R, Brown; common lu wet places, /. D^ Booker; 

 King's Island, R. Brown (a dwarf form with leaves of ^ in. and short 1-flowered scapesj. 



The species is also in New Zealand, and comes near to some of the smaller forms of the 

 common Asiatic M, rugosus, hut besides the difference in habit and foliage, the calyx a 

 narrow and much less open. 



5. ADENOSMA, R. Br. 



(Pterostigma, Benth^ 



Calyx divided to tlie base into 5 segments or sepals, the upper one larger. 

 Corolla tubular at the base, the upper lip erect, entire or notched, the loujr 

 cue spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, in pairs ; anthers of the lower pair |- 

 celled (by the abortion of the other cell), of the upper pair 2-celled, w'thttie 

 cells separate and rather distant, or rarely 1 -celled. Style dilated at the ena 

 into 2 short stigmatic lobes, and more or less winged below the lobes. Cap- 

 sule acuminate, opening septicidally in 2 bifid valves or in 4 valves, tu 

 placentas of the 2 carpels completely separating at maturity. Seeds nume- 

 rous, small, striate and reticulate.— Glandular-pubescent or villous heiu . 

 usually strong-scented and turning black in drving. Leaves oppos't • 

 Flowers solitary iu the upper axils, the upper ones often forming termiua 

 spikes or heads. Bracteoles 2, linear, close under the calyx. 



The genus consists of a very few tropical Asiatic plants. Of the two AustraUan spec'^^'j 

 one has a wide range in the Archipelago aud some parts of India, the other is e'ldeinic. 

 differs from the section Adeno^noides of Btemodia, chiefly in the abortion of one een 

 the npper anthera. ^ 



Stems erect. Leases shortly petiolate 1- ^ ■ 'T^',L 



Stems decunihent. Leaves on long petioles . . . ...... 2- ^- *«'^''^' 



1. A. caerulea, R. Br. Prod. 443. An erect, simple or branched, rather 

 coarse annual, from under 1 ft. to nearly 2 ft. high, glandular-pubescentj 

 villous all ov;er, strongly scented. Leaves shortlv petiolate ovate and scarce i 

 exceeding 1 m. m the typical form, ovate-lanceolate and above 3 m. io»a 



