494 LXxxiii. SCROPHULARINE^, [^Gratioh, 



Herpedis Monnlerla, Leaves oblong or oLovate, narrowed at the base, very 

 obtuse, rather thick, entire or obscurely toothed, 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers 

 few, rather small, on short pedicels. Calyx o-landular-pubesccnt, the seg- 

 meuts rather obtuse, about 2 lines long. Corolla about 4 lines long. An- 

 thers connivent, with transverse parallel cells; staminodia filiform^ with 

 minute heads, rather long. Capsule broadly ovoid. — Hook. f. Tl. Tasm. 

 i. 291. 



Victoria. Highest part of the Australian Alps, F. Mueller {Herb. F, MuelL). 



Tast&ania. Sandy and marshy banks of rivers, ftc, in alpine situations, MarlborongD, 

 Hampshire Hills, and Arthur's Lakes, Milligan, Omn; South Port, C. Slaarlj Eecherche 

 Eay, Oh/Jield, 



The species is also in New Zealand. 



11. DOPATBIUM, Hamilt. 



Calyx carapanulate, 5-lobed. Corolla tubular at the base, with the lips 

 spreading, the upper one 2-lobed, the lower lar<?er and 3-lobed. Stamens, 2 

 upper ones perfect, iueluded in the tube; anther-cells distinct and parallel, 

 2 lower reduced to minute filiform staminodia. Style with 2 flat stigmatic 

 lobes. Capsule opening loculicidnlly in 2 entire or rarely bifid valves, bear- 

 ing in their centre the separate placentas. — Slender glabrous herbs. Leaves 

 opposite, chiefly at the base of the stem, the others usually minute and few. 

 Pedicels filiform. Bracteoles none. 



. A genus with very few species, inhabitants of marshy or rich moist places m tropical Asia 

 and Africa. The only Australian species is a common one in InJia. ' , 



The ovary and ca|)sule of this genus, not quite correctly described in the ' Prodromus, 

 and still more inaccm-ateiy figured in Wight's plate of D. lobelioides (let. 859), diiTertrom 

 those of all other Gratiole<B in being scarcely perfectly 2-celled. The broad flat placentas 

 are at right angles to the dissepiment, and although their inner faces are coatiguons aiiti 

 bear no ovules or seeds, yet they do not cohere, the ovules and seeds being very numerous 

 on their backs or outer faces, turned towards the walls of the cavity. 



. 1. D* junceum, Kamilt,; Bmth. in BC. Prod, x. 407. A glabrous 

 erect annual, branching chiefly at the base, sometimes scarcely above 2 or 6 

 in. high, but when hixurlant its slender stems attain 1 ft. Lower and radical 

 leaves oblong, obtuse, entire, contracted at tlie base and often above 3 i"' 

 long, tlie others small, sessile, ovate, the upper ones few and distant ami 

 scarcely 1 line long. Flowers in the upper axils usuallv short but sometimes 

 nearly \ in. long. Calyx scarcely f line Ion- divided to about the muKHe 

 into narrow obtuse lobes. Corolla-tube about 1^ lines long, tlie throat very 

 open, the upper lip 2-lobed, the lower very broadly 3-lobed, as long as tne 

 tiibe. Capsule globular, scarcely 1 line iWvimti^v.— Oratiolajuncea,^^^^' 

 PI. Corom. ii. t. 12D. 



Queensland. Rockhampton, O'Shanesij, Common in E. ludia. 



SuBTKiBE II, LiNDERNiE^,— Stem-leaves opposite. Stamens, 2 upP^^ 

 ones mserted in the tube and usually included in it and perfect, the anther 

 approximate or cohering, tbe cells contiguous, often divaricate and sometimes 

 confluent mto one ; 2 lower ones inserted in (or adnate to) the throat eitne^ 

 reduced to club-shaped linear or 2-fid staminodia, or when perfect with on. 

 arched filaments (short in the European Lindernia), with an angle or lo" 

 near the base, the anthers cohering under the upper lip of the corolla; 



