SIO Lxxxiii. scROPHULARiNEiS. [Veromch. 



ciliate, usually about 2 lines long when in flower but soon enlarged and 

 sometimes twice that size and thin. Corolla-lobes obtuse, either scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the calyx or twice as long. Capsule compressed, broadly obcordate 

 or truncate, shorter than the calyx.— Benth, in DC. Prod. x. 477 ; Hook. f. 

 FL Tasm. i. 294; F. stolonifera, Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1842, and 

 in PI. Preiss. i. 342 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 477 and 490 (from the cha- 

 racter given) ; r. cyoioriim, Miq. in PL Preiss. i. 342 (from the character 

 given) ; r. Gimnii, Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 477. 



Queensland. Burnett river, F. Mueller (apparenllv the same, hut the specimens not 



sufficient). 



N". S. Wales. Hastings river, BecJder. 



Victoria, 



Creelc, Bufi'alo 



es. Hastings river, BecJder. 



Port Phillip, 72. Brown; Pitzroy river, Robertson; Loddon river, Bunip 



aud Dandenong ranges, Grampians, Wilson's Promontory, F. Mueller; 



Little nver, FuUagar ; Creswick Creek, Whan. 



Tasmania. Port Dahyinple and Derweut river, R. Brown ; common in rich soil 

 throughout the colony, J, L. Hooker. 



S. Australia. Rivoli Bay, F, Mueller; Kanrraroo island, WaierJiouse. 

 ,, W. Australia, Drummond, n, 99, 215, 4.tA coll. n. 159 (with very large calyit^) ; 

 KaJ-au nver, Oldjiekl, F. Mueller. 



Var.? longifoUa. Leaves narrow-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1 in. lonc^ or rather more- 

 Hampshire Hills, Tasmania, Gimn, Included bv J. D. Hooker, FI. tasm. i. 295, among 

 the forms of F. argnia, but with neither the stature nor the long acute leaves of the V. 

 notabihs, stiU less is it the true F. arguta, Br., the whole species, however, although well- 

 marked m Its common typical form, varies occasionallv so as to make it difficult to give any 

 absolute character to distinguish it on the one hand from 7. disians, aud on the other 

 from some forms of T, plebeia. The most northern stations may require further confir- 



12. y. plebeia, R. Br, Frod. 435. Stems from a creeping rootstock 

 procumbent, elongated and much more slender than in the other species, 

 sometimes several feet long, occasionally rooting at the nodes, rarely eniittuiii 

 a tuft of erect branches of a few inches, usually minutely pubescent, without 

 the long hairs of F. calychm. Leaves on rather long petioles, broadly ovnte 

 sometimes almost deltoid, deeply acutely and irre-ularly toothed, tnuicate or 

 broadly cordate at the base, from under \ in. to about'l in. long. Eacemes 

 as in f calycina, sometimes rather slender pedunculate and 2 or even 3 m. 

 lono: with the pedicels not much longer than the calyx, sometimes almost re- 

 lusters of 2 or 3 flowers on lono- pedicels with a ver\^ short common 



duced to clu 



cluced to clusters of 2 or 3 flowers on long pedicels with a verj^ short common 

 peduncle, talyx-sogments about 2 lines long when in flower, and rarely 

 above 3 when in fruit, rather acute and minutely ciliolate. Corolla not much 

 longer than the calyx. Capsule shorter than the calyx, compressed, nearly 

 orbicular, not at all or only very slightlv emarginate.-Eenth. in DC Prod. 

 X- ^^S ; y, dtUoidea, Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 17- 



Qtieenslaad. 

 MitchelL 



Marauoa 



oth!^; ^;^l?if ; f ^^f f-^'^'''"° ^'^ ^'•^ ^^^^ ilountains, n. Brown, Sieier, n. 4S3, and 

 F^Mnlu^!" ^'* ^"'^'' ^'"' ""^ '^^ ^^^^' ^"°'P Creek, Tambo river i. Gipp^' I^^uJ. 



^i&l), does Dot appear to be really distinct from F. plebeia. 



