508 Lxxxiii. SCROPHULAUINE^. [FeroHica. 



late, entire or with a few prominent teeth, rather thick, 1 to 3 in. long. 

 Flowers in rather slender virgate racemes of | to 1 ft. in the upper axils, the 

 pedicels very short. Calyx-sejrments veiy naiTow, about 1 line long when in 

 liower, but lengthening to 2 lines. Corolla-lobes acute, 3 to 4 lines long. 

 Capsule oval-oblong, emarginate, often exceeding the calyx, turgid and sep- 

 ticidal when quite ripe.— T. pulchra, G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 7; K 

 dianthifoUa, A. Cunn. in Loud. 1. c. 467, 



N-_S. "Wales. Arid sandy flats iu the plains of Daby on the Cugeegong river, ^, 



Cunningham, 



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Sect. II. Cham^drys. — Herbs, from a perennial usually creeping root- 

 stock, diffuse ascending or erect. Leaves all opposite. Flowers in axillary 

 racemes. Capsule compressed, opening loculicidally on the margin, tlie 

 valves not separating from tire narrow placental column. 



V tY* ^^^^^> Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, Misc. 42. Stems from a perennial 

 probably creeping rootstock, ascending or erect, \ to \\ ft. liigli, tlie whole 

 plant glabrous or the inflorescence minutely pubescent. Leaves pinnately 

 divided mto linear entire or toothed or pinnatifid segments. Flowers in 

 rather dense racemes of 2 or 3 in., terminal or in the upper axils, the pedicels 

 short. Galyx-segments lanceolate, unequal, 1 to H li»es long. Corolla- 

 Jobes obtuse, not 2 lines long. Capsule compressed, broadly obcordate, 

 longer than the calyx, opening loculicidally along the margin, the valves re- 

 mammg attached to the placental column in the centre.— Benth. in DC. Prod. 

 X. 471; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 294. 



Victoria. Mount Latrobe, Baw-Baw Mountains, Mount ^Vellington in Gipps' Land, F. 



Mueller. 



Tasmania. In alpine Htuations, rather local, /. l>. Hooker; Mount Wellington, 

 Gunn ; \A estern Mountains and Lake Arthur, Lawrence. 



8. y. gracilis, R. Br. Prod. 435. Stems from a creeping rootstock 

 ascendmg or erect, simple or slightly branched, rarely above 6 in. high and 

 sometimes not above 2 in., glabrous as well as the whole plant, or with a 

 iiue ot hairs decurrent on each side from the mar"-ins of the leaves. Leaves 

 sessile or very shortly petiolate, lanceolate or linear, acute, entire or rarely 

 with very few prominent teeth, f to 1 in. long, the floral ones shorter. Ka- 

 cemes in the upper axils loose but short and almost coiymbose, on peduncles 

 longer than the leaves, the pedicels slender, as long as or longer than the 

 vl^^^'^ /^^'y^-segments lanceolate, acute, from 2 to above 3 lines long. 

 J.orona.Jobes broad, rounded, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Capsule broad 

 rnLrLc'"i'^i.''! ^^ ''^^^'^' 'I'S^tly notched, somewhat glandular-pubescent, 

 FrS! i! 295 "°' "'''' ^"^^'^ ripi-Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 478 ; Hook. f. 



l^lZd"T"^MT '''^'■'"^''' ""• ^'■-■'''- --^t places, coalmen in many parts of the 

 S. Australia. Onkaparinga river, P. Mueller. 



