503 



Lmosella,'] LXXXIII. SCROPIIULARINEiE. 



imal, forming Utile tufts of 1 or 2 in. diameter, and occasionally emitting; 

 creeping shoots terminating in another tuft or rarely short barren branches 

 Kith alternate leaves. Leaves chiefly clustered in the tufts, almost hnear in 

 tk common Australian form, more oblong in Europe and Asia but variable 

 in both countries, obtuse and entire, ^ to i in. long, besides a petiole often 

 twice as long. Flowers clustered with the leaves on very short pedicels. 

 Calyx about 1 line long. Corolla very shortly exceeding the calyx, the lobes 

 sliortlv ovate. Capsule ovoid-globular, exceeding the calyx when pei-tect.— 

 Hook: f. ri. Tasm. i. 292; L. tenuifoUa, Nutt. ; lienth. m DC. Prod. x. 

 427 ; L. amtralis, K. Br. Prod. 443. 



N. S. TVales. Near Miidgee, WooUs. 



Victoria, .\voca river. Station Peak, F. Mueller ; near Portland J/W/. 

 Tasmania. Port Dali'ymple and Kent's Island, Bass's Straits, R. Brown ; probably 

 common in marshy situations, thonc;h frequently overlooked, /. D. f"(>'^^': , ,, F 



S. Australia! Kangaroo Island. R. Brown ; Light river and Mount Remarkable, F. 



W. Australia. Gordon river, Oldfleld ; foot of Stirling Range, mixed with G/osso- 

 ff^^ma Lrummondii, F. Mueller. 



The species extends ncariy the «hole length of western Ameriea >uth ^^"^ f ^ "^ 

 tarrow rarely broader leaves as in Australia, and over a great part of Europe and temperate 

 ^sia usually with rather broader leaves, 



SuBOKDER III. KHlNANTHlDE.E.-Corolla either with 4 5 (or rarely 

 more in genera not Australian) spreading lobes, variously imbricated in the 

 l^u.1, the upper ones very rarely outside, or 3-lipped with the upper lip ins de. 

 Inflorescence centripetal or very rarely in genera not Australian compound. 



^ It is only in the first two genera and a few non-Auslralian ^^'^^^''^'f^^/'j^JJ^^^^tr;. 

 t5on is doubtful or variable ; in all the rest of the suborder the upper lip or lobe, are mva 



tiablv inciMo :« +v„ T 1 



1% inside ia the hud. 



r 



20. CAPEARIA, LItm. 



Calyx divided to the base into 5 equal segments. ^7/'^, ^ °^^^ J^^'J,, 

 Panulate, divided to below the middle into 5 nearly eqiml lobe., J^bncate in 

 the bud. Stamens 4 or rarely 5, shorter than the corolla •' .^^^^^ ;'^^J°!"^ ;> 

 the cells confluent at the top.' Style thickened at the end, the st|ma obtuse 

 «ith 2 diverging lobes at the base. Capsule ovate, o^/"^^' ?P "" ^ JocuU 



ridally in 2 valves at length 2-fid and leaving a free P''?^"*^ '^^^^^^itTs' 

 Seeds numerous, small, with a reticulate tcsta.-Perennial or under^l^ ub • 

 Leaves alternate, serrate. Pedicels axillaiy, usually 2 together, without 



es. 



The genus consists of a very few American species, 

 ^^gener, appears to be endemic. 



The 



1. C. calycina, A. Gray in Proc. Arr,er. Acad. vi. ^Q- Low^"^ s'- 

 5>-ous. Leaves lanceolate or linear, with few coarse divaricate teeth nea the 

 ^'-'^e. piowers solitary in the axils, on pedicels of 3 or 4 line. ^f^J^^ 

 ^-ents leafy, 4 lines long when in flower, i m. when in fr^^^^'/°^™\ 

 lightly denticulate. Corolla not exceeding the calyx. Stamens 4. Sti„ma 



aes. Hunter's River, American E.r.lon.o Expedition. This plant is only 



eoiarginate. 



