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Lxxxiir. scROPHULAKiNEiE. [IIerj)estis. 



bracteolcs under the calyx. Calyx about 2 lines long or 3 lines when in 

 fruitj the outer sepal oval, the others ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate. Corolla- 

 tube scarcely so long as the calyx, the 5 lobes spreading, broad, as long as 

 the tube, the 2 upper ones rather smaller and less deeply separated than the 

 others. Capsule ovoid, shorter than the calyx, opening loculicidally in 2 

 valves, which at length separate from the dissepiment and sometimes split 

 into 2.— Bot. Mag. t. 2557. 



Queensland- Moreton Island, M'GiUivrmj; Burnett river, F. Mueller; Nerkoo! 

 Creek, Bowman. 



Iff- S. "Wales. Paramatta, Woolh. 



The species is one of the commonest marsh plants in the tropical and subtropical regions 

 of both the New and the Old World, and has been described under a great variety of names, 

 as detailed in the above-quoted ' Prodromus.' 



10. GEATIOLA, Linn. 



■ Calyx divided to tlie base into 5 nearly equal segments or sepals. Corolla 

 tubular at the base, the upper lip broad and entire or shortly 2-lobed, the 

 lower 3-lobpd. Stamens 2 perfect, with the anthers connivent, the cells pa- 

 rallel and distuict but contiguous ; the lower stamens reduced to slender sta- 

 mniodia or entirely wanting. Style dilated and deflected at the summit, 

 entire or with 2 flat lobes. Capsule 4-valved, leaving a single columnar pla- 

 centa bordered by a portion of tlie dissepiment. Seeds small, striate and 

 transversely reticulate.— Erect or procumbent herbs, glabrous or glaudular- 

 pubescent. Leaves opposite, undivided. Flowers axillaiy, sessile or pedi- 

 cellate, with a pair of bracteoles close under the calyx. 



lUe species are not numerous, dispersed over the temperate and subtropical regions of 

 both hemispheres. Of tLe three Australian species, one extends to Xew Zealand and extra- 

 iropical South America, another to New Zealand only: the third appears to be endemic, 

 but IS closely allied to a common N. American one. • • 



riowers pedunculate. Stems erect. Leaves lanceolate, ^aminodia 



^^^^ \,G. pednncukU. 



TVr'^'', r.^^""' "I.''- ^^'-^^'^^ °^^t^ or lance'olat'e. * St'amino: 



am tilitorm (often exceedinrfy slender) 2 G. peruviana. 



oblong or obovate. Staminodia filiform . . Z. G. nana. 



1. G. pedunculata, E. Br. Prod. 435. Stems from a shortly decnm- 

 Dent or sometimes creeping base, erect or ascending, scarcely branched, \ to 

 i It. Ingli, the whole plant minutely viscid-pubescent or rarely glabrous. 

 Leaves lanceolate or oblong, bordered by a few teeth or nearly entire, the 

 lower ones ofteu contracted at the base but mostly stem-elasping, the lorger 

 sZ.fr r'' ""^T ^ ^"- ^«"S^ ^"t generally smaller. Pedicels shorter or 

 W.i^nn. r °'' *^^^ ^^^ ^^^''' ^^'•^ly sl»«^er than the calyx. Bracteo es 

 ^X'rT "" '',^°"S as the calyx. Calyx-segments linear-lanccola e, 

 at lenst tw ./T'^' ' *? '^ ^"^^^ l°«g- Corolla'' white, yellowish inside, 

 verv 1,^9 1 n as the calyx, the ifps short and bro^d, the upper one 

 mralM .n f t "*• ti^^Y'' °^ ^^le perfect stamens cohering, the cell, 



paiallel and ransverse, the lower stamens entirely wanting. Capsuleovo.d- 



f rod 403 ' ' "" '^'^^''^^ exceeding the eal/x.-Benth. in VC 



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