Vtrouica.] .LXXXIII. SCROPHULARlNE.i;. 509 



9. V, arguta^ R. Br. Prod. 4-35. Stems from a creepuij^ rootstock 

 ascemliiig or erect, very slender, slightly pubescent. Leaves nearly sessile or 

 the lower ones shortly petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute and acutely 

 toothed, truncate or almost cordate at the base, ^ to f in. long. Eacemes in 

 the upper axils almost filiform, with few small distant flowers on slender 

 pedicels. Calyx scarcely above 1 line long when in flower and not 2 lines 

 when in fruit. Corolla-lobes broad, obtuse, about 2 lines long. Capsule 

 broad, but not seen ripe. 



N. S. "Wales- Grose river, i?. Brown. This may possibly prove to be a slenJer 

 small-tlowered form of V. distans, or a broad-leaved variety of F. gracilis, to both of wliich 

 it appears to me to be nearer allied thau to V. plebeia. 



10. V. distans^ R. Br. Prod. 435. Stems from a creeping rootstock 

 ascending or erect, simple or branched, rarely above 6 in. high, glabrous pu- 

 bescent or rarely hirsute, the hairs Usually in opposite lines but sometimes 

 almost round the stem. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, from ovate to 

 lanceolate, coarsely toothed or very rarely nearly entire, |^ to 1 in. long, gla- 

 brous or sprinkled with a few hairs underneath. Flowers white streaked 

 with lilac, rather large, often only 2 or 3 and never numerous, in rather loose 

 pedunculate racemes in the upper axils, appearing often at first terminal, and 

 often only 1 or 2 racemes to the stem. Calyx-segments usually broad, 2 to 

 3 lines long, acute or obtuse. Corolla larger than in F, gracilis, the broad 



round lobes at least 4 lines long in many specimens. Capsule broadly ob- 

 cordate, as long as the calyx, opening loculicidally, the valves adhering to 

 the placental column. Seeds slightly incurved, closely packed.— Bentli. in 

 DC, Prod. X. 478 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 294 ; V. Drummondii, Benth. in 

 BC. Prod. X. 478 ; V, Hildebrandii, F. Mnell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 49, 

 and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 202. 



S. Australia. Limestone cUffs on Lalce Alexandi-ina, along the Coorong and near 

 Speacer^s Gulf, P. Mueller; Lake Elamilton, Wilhehni. 



W. Australia, Brnmrnond, \st coll.; King Georpre's Sound, B. Brown. These, as 

 *ell as the South Australiaa forma, nearly glabrous and the leaves often rather thicic. 



Var. ? ^ulescens. More pubescent, the leaves rather more distinctly petiolate, and the 

 ^%x-5ep:ment3 more obtuse, almost intermediate between T. distans and V. calycma.— Y. 



^ovm^Hollandia, Poir. Diet. viii. 526 ?. . , , .., ,^^^^ 



Tasmania. Recherche Bay, Labillardlire, C. Stuart; common on the sand hiHs near 



wcular Head, Gunn. 



11. V. calycina, E. Br. Prod. 433. Stems from a creeping rootstock 

 Ifitlier procumbent, spreading to a considerable extent and rooting at the 

 wwet nodes, of some of the flowering ones usually ascending or erect, trora a 

 few inches to nearly 1 ft long, more or less hirsute, the hairs usually rather 

 long and in 2 opposite rows but sometimes nearly all round the stem. 

 Leaves more petiolate than in the preceding species, broadly ovate, coarsely 

 crenate-toothed, rounded truncate or cordate at the base, from umler ^ in. to 

 1 m. or rarely rather more in length and often almost as broad, the floral 

 °nes smaller and sometimes more sessile and narrower. Flon-ers m tue 

 ascending stems in pedunculate few-flowered rather loose axillary racemes, or 

 «i the procumbent stems almost reduced to clusters, the pedicels ^^^\^^^^ 

 * very short common peduncle. Calyx-segments broadly ovate, obtu.e , 



