485 



Jdeiiosma.] Lxxxill. schophularine^. 



some Asiatic specimens, the floral ones gradually smaller and passing into 

 sessile bracts not exceeding the calyxes. Flowers blue, very shortly pedicel- 

 late, the lower ones axillary and distant, the upper ones forming a more or 

 less compact terminal raceme. Bracteoles shorter than the calyx. Calyx 

 very villous, oblique and slightly curved, 3 to 4 lines long, the upper segment 

 lanceolate, the lower ones linear. Corolla 5 to 6 lines long, the lips nearly 

 equal, shorter than the tube. Lower stamens nearly as long as the corolla, 

 with 1-celled anthers ; upper ones shorter, the anthers with 2 cells separated 

 ty a broad thick' cOnnectivura. Capsule acuminate, rather hard, somewhat 

 incurved, about as long as the calyx. — Fterostigma vlllostm, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind, and in DC. Prod. X. 380 



Queensland. Endeavour Bay, Banls and Solander ; Point Loolont, R. BroKn. 



Kamiuation, however, which I have now made of Brown's and Banks s typical spei inieu.s, 

 sbows that they belong in fact to my Pierostigma rillosum, and that Cunninghani s plant 

 is Tery different, both in station and in character. The name of Adenosma must, theretore, 

 te now given to the whole of my genus Fterostigma. 



2. A. Muelleri, Berdli. Apparently annual though rather hard, dif- 

 fuse or decumbent, branched, glandular-villous and viscid, strongly scented, 

 even when dry. Leaves on rather long petioles, ovate or ovate-oblong, otj- 

 tuse, erenulate, rugose, i to 1 in. long, the floral ones passing into the small 

 sessile uppermost ones. Flowers rather large, sessile or very shortly pedi- 

 ceUate. Calyx glandular-villous, above 3 lines long when m fruit, the seg- 

 iiients lanceolate, the upper one nearly twice as broad as the others. Lorolla 

 ^lark-coloured, the tube about as long as the calyx, the lips probably as long, 

 Jlie upper one broad and entire, the lower one 3-lobed. Anthers ot the 

 longer stamens with only one cell, the other one abortive or rudimentaiy, 

 those of the shorter stamens 2-celled. Capsule acuminate, as long as the 

 ^^h'^.—Slemodia odoratissima, F. Muell. Herb. 



N. Australia. Macarthur River, F. Mueller, 



6. STEMODIA, Linn. 



, Calyx divided to the base into 5 segments or sepals, all equal or the upper 

 one scnrcelv larger. Corolla tubular at the base, the upper_ bp broad, entire 

 0/ notched; the lower one spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4 m pairs ; anthers 

 2-celIed with the cells quite separate, usually stipitate. ^tyle <hlated at the 

 fifflniit into 2 stigmatic lobes or rarely entire, not winged Capsule globu- 

 W. ovate or acuminate, opening septicidally in 2 usually 2-fid valves or in 4 

 ;alves, the placentas of the two carpels completely separating at maturity at 

 ^^■''ft in the Australian section). Seeds numerous, small, striate and usually 

 ^eticulate.-Herbs, rarely undershrubs, more or less glandular-pubescent oi 

 y>^lous and often strong-scented. Leaves opposite or m whorls of 3 or 4. 

 flowers solitary in the axils, the upper ones often formmg termmal spikes. 

 "•^cteoles usually 2, linear, close under the calyx. 



T^e genus is chiefly from tropical and southern cxtratropical America, represented hj two 



