486 Lxxxiii. scROPHULAKiKE^. \Stemodia. 



species 111 tropical Asia and Africa. Of llie four Australian species, one is ilic common 

 Asiatic one^ the other three endemic. They all belong to the section to which I had given 

 the name oi Ade)iosma, ia the belief that it included Brown's genus of that name; but, as that 

 now proves to be my Pterostigway the present section, differing from it only by the anthers 

 having all 2 perfect cells, may take the name of Adenosmoides. 



Leaves mostly lanceolate or oblong, sessile and stem-clasping or a few of 

 the low^est rarely petiolate. Stems erect or ascending. 

 Kowers sessile or very shortly pedicellate. . . 



Corolla (about 3 lines long) shortly exceeding the calyx . . . • \. S. Ii/thrifoha. 



Corolla (about 6 to 7 lines long) twice as long as the calyx ... 2. 5. grossa. 



riowers on pedicels longer than the calyx 3. ^S. viscosa. 



Leaves mostly ovate on long petioles. Stems decumbent. (Corolla 3 to ^ 



4 lines long?) 4^. S, dehdis. 



lythrifolia 



A hard erect sligttly- 



branched herb attaiiung 1 to 2 ft., very softly villous all over, almost woolly, 

 and sometimes slightly viscid. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, oblong or lanceolate, 

 serrate or almost entire, narrowed below the middle but usually dilated and 

 stem-clnsping at the base, soft and rugose, the larger ones 1 to 2 in. long, 

 the lowest sometimes more distinctly petiolate, the floral ones small and ovate 

 passing into entire bracts. Flowers small, sessile in the upper axds, the 

 uppermost forming a compact spike with the ovate bracts almost imbricate in 

 4 rows and scarcely exceeding the calyxes. Calyx glandular-pubescent, 

 about 2 lines long, the segments narrow-lanceolate, acute, rather unequal. 

 Corolla shortiv exceeding the calyx, the upper lip broad, truncate or slightly 

 notched. Anthers all 2.celled. Capsule hard, acuminate, not exceedin;? 

 the ctAxx.Stemodia ea:rulea,^m\\\, in DC. Trod. x. 381, as to A. Cuuiung- 

 liam's plant but not R. Browm's synonym. 



N. Australia. Common in the rocky islands of tlie N.W. coast, A. ^'^^^^"^^.^^.' 

 Bg7ioe; Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, K. Moio 



(not inserted in Brown's Prodromus). 



\ar.? te^ndor. Less woolly, the leaves broader and more meniLranous, the floral _ 

 all toothed and not imhricate.—York Sound, N.W. coast. A, Cunningham, Perhaps a 

 tiuct species, but the specimens todiinperfect to determine. 



2. S. grossa, Btntli. A stout erect hard perennial or mulcrsbruh of 

 to 2 ft., glandular-villous all over, and strongly scented when fresh, i-^a 

 mostly in whorls of three, ovate oblong or lanceolate, acutely toothed, 



lower ones contracted below 

 base, the larger ones above 1 



the middle, dilated and stem-clasping ai ^^^^ 



-, ^.. „..v.o «uuvc X iu. long, tlic floral ones gradually sma'^^'^ '. 



more ovate. Flowers large for the genus, sessile in the upper axils, toiiu' o 

 a terminal interrupted leafy spike. Calyx glandular-villous, about i> ^ , 

 long, the segments lanceolate, nearly equ'al. Corolla darlc-coloured, at y 

 b or 7 lines long, the tube broad, hairy inside, the upper lip ^eff. "'llj^ 

 eutu-e, as long as the tube, the lower lip of the same length yith or-^ 

 obtuse lobes. Anthers all 2-celled. Capsule acuminate, about 2 lines lon=- 



N. Australia. 



Desert Island of the N.W. coast, Bgnoe ; Nichol Bay, Ifa^coit 



viscosa 



" . '"" 5 -^^*t/. ri. y^orom, u. «5i5. i, loo. A pereunui ^^ 



■cendnig or erect not much-branched stems from under 6 in. to above ^ 

 higli, the whole plant pubescent or vdlou^^, viscid and scented. Leaj^j' ^^^ ^ 

 site or m whorls of three, the lower ones often ovate and contracted n' 



