LimopJdla.'] LXXXIII. SCROPUULAlllNE.E. ^01 



slightly striate and connected at the base into a short tube. Corolla ratlicr 

 slender, nearly twice as long as the calyx, the lips not linlf as long as the 

 tube, the upper one broad, slightly notched, tbe lower of 3 broad rounded 

 lobes. Authers slightly cohering in pairs. Capsule ovoid, the persistent 



dissepiment broad. — Benth. in DO. Prod. x. 387. 



9. HERPESTIS, Gtertn. f. 



. Calyx divided to tbe base into 5 distinct sepals, the outer one much broader 

 than the others. Corolla tubular at the base, tbe npper ip erect or spread- 

 ing, notched or 2-lobed, the lower lip spreading, 3-lobed or sometimes the 

 5 lobes nearly equal. Stamens 4, in pairs, the anthers all perlect -J^-c^ 1" . 

 the cells contiguous. Style dilated at the summit, concave or slightly ^-lobed. 

 Capsule opening loculicidallv in 2 often bifid valves or in 4 valves, leaving 

 the phiccntas on a free central column or dissepiment, beeds numerous 

 usually striate and transversely reticulate. -Glabrous or rarely pubescent 

 herbs. Leaves opposite, entire, toothed or in so.ne non-Austrabau aquatic 

 species the submerged ones cut into numerous capillary segments, ^toueis 

 axillary, or, in species not Australian, in a terminal raceme. Bracteole. 

 under tbe calyx only in a very few species. 



A couslderable tropical and subtropical geinis, chiefly American, "^t^^/^;^ ^P^^;,; ^l 

 tives of the Old World. Of the two Australian speocs, one ,s cornmon ovei nearly the 

 whole area of the genus, the other extends over tropical Asia aud AUica. . 



Erect. Leaves uairow. Flowers nuuierons, on short pedicels . ._ . l- M.flonbmaa. 

 Procuiuhent or creeping. Leaves small, obovate or oblon-, rather ttucK. jj;^ Monnieria 



■c lowers few, ou long pedicels 



Apparently annual, erect and 



hranching, rarely above 1 ft. high, quite glabrous. Leaves '^^^''-'^^.^^^ 'X;'' 

 l^uceolate rather obtuse, entire, narrowed to the base 1-neryed, " ^Ix '^^«;« 

 1 in. long. Pedicels slender but usually shorter than the P^^^^ «' f ^^^^^ ^^f^^ 

 ther iu each axil owing to the partial development of an «^ "^O^^^™^ ;^; 

 l^racteoles very small, a little below the calyx. Calyx scarcelj above 1. Is 

 long at the tinie of flowering, 2 to 3 lines when m fruit the egnienU tlu^^^^ 

 «t first herbaceous, at length membranous and ^^^ticidate the outer one 



broadly ovate, the 2 next narrow-ovate, the 2 ^^^^^^f ^}ff2^l^.^^L 

 roUa scarcely exceeding the calyx. Capsule ovoid-globular, shoiter than the 



calyx, opening in 4 valves.— Benth. in DC. Frod. x. *uu. 



» . « ,r J7 Q/^ntTi amilburn Island, A. Cunningham. 



N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller; ^outh ^o'^o'^^n i , y 



Queensland. Shoahvater Bay, R. 5.^^«; Burdekui river. Boatman. 

 The species extends over tropical Asia and Africa. 



and K. : Beun. i« DO. Prol. x 100 A lo^ 



^reepiug or procumbent glabrous leafy annual (f . P^^^^l";' " ' ^^^^^^^^^^ 



ovate or obling, rarely above i in. long, rather ^^ ^'^'l' ^"*^^*^ ^^J'^^f {.j^^ or 

 out prominent^veins or obscurely 1- or 3-nerved ^ ^^^^^/J^f' J^f,^ ^^^^ 

 almost white, on pedicels usually rather longer than the leaves, with . small 



