493 



Gratiola.] LXXXiii. scropiiulakine^. 



Queensland. Burnett river, F. Mueller ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunning- 

 ham; Bockhampton, O'Shcmesij. -^^ , ■, ^ a , 

 N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown aud others ; New Eagland, C. Stuart ; 



Riihmond river, C. Moore ; Darling Downs, Law. 



Victoria. Avoca aud Murray rivers, Tanibo, Forest Creel<, F. Mueller. 



W. Australia, Drummond, n. 82, and Uh Coll. n. 158 (a glabrous form, vvitli tlie 

 pedicels usually shorter and the corolla smaller). 



G. virginiana, from North America, is scarcely to be distinguished from this species by a 

 more branching habit, the leaves more narrowed at the base, and the capsule not cxccedmg 

 the calyx. 



2. G. peruviana, Linn. ; BentJi. in BO. Prod. x. 403. Stems from a 

 procumbent or creeping base, often rooting at the lower nodes, ascendmg or 

 erect, 6 in. to 1 ft. high, the whole plant quite glabroiis or viscid-pubescent. 

 Leaves sessile and stem-clasping, from ovate to lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 

 serrate or almost entire, usually 3-nerved especially when broad, i to 1 m. 

 long, riowers sessile or nearly so in the upper axils, larger tlian m G. pe- 

 duncidata. Calyx 2 to 3 lines long or even longer when in fruit, the seg- 

 ments linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 6 to 7 Hues long, tlie lips broad, 

 much shorter than the tube, the upper one notched. Anthers _ conmvent 

 almost coliering, with transverse parallel ceUs. Staminodia filiform, with 

 minute globular heads, sometimes sliort and so slender as to be very difficult 

 to find, sometimes more elongated. Capsnle ovoid-globular, rather obtuse, 

 membranous.— (?. pubesccns, K. Br. Prod. 435 ; Benth. in DC. Prod, x 404 ; 

 Bartl. in PI. Preiss. i. 342 (the narrow-leaved pubescent form) ; G. latifoha, K. 

 Br. I.e. ; Benth. 1. c. 4Q3 ; Hook. f. Fl.Tasm. i. 291 (the broad-leaved glabrous 

 form) ; G. glabra, Walp. Eep. iii. 387 (given by mistake as a name of Brown s). 



Queensland. Moreton Bay, Fitxalan (with rather broad glabrous leaves) . 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue IMouutains. R. Brown Woolls, and others ; 

 Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Illawarra, A. Cunningham (all glabrous or nearly 

 so, with broad or rather narrow leaves) ; Macleay river, Beckler (with broad, very pubes- 

 cent leaves). - .,,.,, 



Victoria. About ilelbourne, Adamson, F. Mueller ; near Portland, Robertson, Alhtt ; 

 yictoria Range aud Station Peak, F. Mueller (all glabrous, with broad or sometimes narrow 

 leaves) ; Snowy River, Dandeuoug Ranges, marshes on the Murray, F. Mueller (with narrow, 



viscid-pubesceut leaves). , . , n i„ „ 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, B. Brown ; common everywhere in wet gravelly places, 

 etc., J. D. Rooher (usually with broad leaves, and glabrous or nearly so) ; Jacke s flam, 

 and rocks in the Meandee near Cheshnnt, Archer Cpubcscent witli narrovv leaves) . 



S. Australia. Torrens river. Gulf of St- Vincent, F. Mueller; Kangaroo Island, 

 »Va/«>r^o;«e (mostly with broad leaves, and nearly glabrous) . .„,. .,„„, ,, . . 



^ W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown Fretss, « 2326 «« J 2331 ; La, r, 

 l^ale, Walcott: granite rocks, Mount Melville, F Mueller (all viseid-pubescent, «ith 

 narrow leaves). 



Var. pumila. Plant of 2 or 3 in., with small naiTOW leaves glabrous or viscid-pubescent. 

 -G. pumila, F. Mnell. in Linmea, ixv. 431.-Port Jackson and Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; 

 ' ictona, P. Mueller. 



The species is also in New Zealand and in eitratropical S. America, where it is usually 

 narrow-leaved and nearly glabrous, as represented by J. A. Schmidt m Mart. Fl. Bras, 

 ^eroph. t. 49. but occasionally very viscid-pubescent, and more rarely broad-leaved. 



3. G. nana, Benth. in BO. Prod. x. 404. A dwarf procumbent or 

 ^•■eeping much-brancbed plant, glabrous or minutely viscid-pubescent not 

 fisiug above a few inches from the ground, with something ot the habit ot 



