Morga)iia.'] _ Lxxxiii. scuophularine^. 4SJ 



much sliorter tlian tlie tube. Capsule shortly acuminate.— Bentli. in DC. 

 Prod. X. 385. 



■ N. Australia. Upper Roper river and Alligator Point, F. Mueller ; Albert river, 



Berne ; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landshorough. rr i r 7; -c-i. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, 2. Brown ; estuary of the Burdckm, F. M„eller; Titzioy 

 river, ^oK'waw; Barcoo river, M/cW/; Curriwillighi, IJ«/i!o«. j ri ^„».'= 



N. S. Wales. Plains of the Gwydir, Mitchell; hetweeu the Darling and Cooper s 

 Creek, Neihon ; Ballandool river, Locker. 



4. M. parviflora, Benth. Stems from a perenni'al almost woody stock 

 erect, paniculatelv branclied, 6 in. to above 1 ft. hi-b, glabrous or sightly 

 pubescent. Leaves veiy few, small and distant, all linear, a few of the largest 

 i to i in. Ion- but mostly reduced to small scales. Flowers raucli smaller 

 tlian in the other species, on short rigid pedicels. Calyx about ij Hues 

 lon^, glandular-pubescent. Corolla scarcely above 3 hues long the lips 

 Bbout as long as the tube, the upper one shortly 2-lobed, the lower one 

 3-lobed to about the middle; antliers of the longer stamens smaller than 

 those of the shorter oues, but all 2-celled. Capsule \\ lines long, scarcely 

 acuminate. 



H. Australia. Arnhcm's Land, F. Mueller. 



8. LIMNOPHILA, K. Br. 



Calyx divided to the base or below the middle into 5 narrow segments all 

 equal or nearly so. Corolla tubular at the base, the upper bp broad, entue 

 notched or shortly 3-lobed, the lower one spreading, 3-lobed. stamens 4 m 

 pairs ; anthers 2-celled, with the cells quite separate and somewhat stipitate 

 Style deflected at the summit, with 2 short flat stigmatic lobe., scarce y 

 ringed at the bend. Capsule broadly ovoid or oblong, usually ^btti^e op ^ 

 ingiu 4 valves, leavinj the dissepiment entire at i^^^^.^* the base, ba^m^^ 

 tlie placentas on its faces, thus forming as it were two wmgstothe ^^^J^' 

 placental colunm. Seeds numerous, small, striate and transversely f^^^^^;^ 

 -Herbs usually growing in marshes or shallow water, glabrous or si gh y 

 pubescent, usuali; scented and marked with pellucrd dots. L^^;- °P^^^^^^^^ 

 or whorled, toothed or deeply cut, the submerged ones in ««™f Pff^^^^^^^^^^ 

 •nto numerous capillary segments. Flowers solitary m «^«f '^'J^' *^^ "F^^^^^^^^ 

 sometimes forming, a terminal raceme. Bracleoles hnear. close under the calv x. 



The four Austra- 



, A considerable genius, chiefly tropical, and limited to the Old mrld^ The four A 



I'an species are all widely spread in tropical Asia, and one at lea.t extends lato Air 



l-o^er leaves (or all) deeply divided. Flowers pedicellate, Calyi- ^ ^ tiolokles. 



segments l-nerved 



^aves all undivided. j . • f 



*^lowers pedicellate. Calyx-segmenls several-nerved, striate. ^ ^ punctata. 



Glabrous 3 £, kirstda 



n^SlS: ^S^-^g.nents u;it;d k t^e ba.^, slighti; stAat; ^. L. serrata. 



1- L. sratioloides, H. Br. Frod. 442^ Stems f-|n!sTeT"L'Tel 

 ascending or erect, usually about 6 in. high but ^°"^f,7^%^f.^4^n,^,,le 

 '^"mbent and branched, or drawn up into simple stems of 1 ^^ ^ ft. the « hoje 

 P^""t glaluous. Leav;s mostly opposite, but the lower ^^^ J^"f '? ^^^ /^^^ ^. 

 ^° the base into narrow toothed or pinnatifid segments so as to appear 



