512 LXXXIII. SCROPIIULAKINE^. [Vero^iic&< 



forming a terminal interrupted leafy spike. Calyx-segments oLlong, but little 

 niore than 1 line long, sliglitly enlarged after flowering. Corolla not exceed- 

 ing the calyx. Capsule about as broad as long, compressed, slightly notched, 

 about 1^ lines diameter. Seeds very small. 



N. S. "Wales. Between the Lacblan and Darling rivers, Biirkitt, 

 Victoria- Near Geeloiig, Forest Greet, Rocky river, F, Mueller, 

 Tasmania. South Esk river, C, Stuart, 

 W. Australia, Drummoyid^ n. 443. 



The species is common in extratropical America, rather less ahundant within the tropics, 

 and appears here aud there in the Old World introduced from America. It is believed also 

 to have heen introdnced only in all the above Australian localities. 



23. OUmsiA, Comm. 



Calyx 5-lobed or 5 -cleft. Corolla more or less oblique or curved, the tube 

 very shorter elongated ; lobes 5, flat, imbricate in the bud, one of the lateral 

 ones outside. Stamens 4, not exserted; anthers reniform, not raucroiiate, 

 with confluent cells. Style filiform, with a capitate stigma. Capsule locuh- 

 cidally 2-valved, the valves entire, carrying off the placentas along their 

 centre. Seeds several, with a loose reticulate testa.— Perennial herbs, the 

 stock often woody. Leaves opposite, sometimes all or nearly all radical. 

 Flowers either solitary in the axils, or forming a raceme sometimes con- 

 tracted to an umbel, on a scape-like peduncle, without bracteoles. 



The genus comprises a considerable number of species from the Andes of S. America and 

 JNew Zealand. The only Australian one appears to be endemic in Tasmania. 



1. O. integrifolia, R. Br. Trod, 439, A small glabrous perennial, 

 with a creeping stock, rooting at the nodes. Eadical leaves on the stock or 

 short barren shoots, ovate obovate or nearly orbicular, obtuse, entire, rather 

 tluck, y to nearly \ in. long, narrowed into a petiole often as long as the 

 lamina. _ Plowermg stems erect, simple and 1-flowered or slightly branched, 

 I to 3 m. high, bearing 1 or 2 pairs or whorls of 3 small sessile oblong- 

 linear leaves, the flowers on long pedicels above the last pair. Calyx about 

 d Hues long, divided to much below the middle into oblong segments often 

 minutely ciliate. Corolla nearly \ in. long, broadly and obliquely campanu- 

 ate, apenng into a very short tube, the lobes all obtuse and rather longer 

 than the entire part. Capsule ovate, about as long as tlie calyx.-Benth. m 

 DC. Prod. X. 493 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 293. 



BwTTt'^- Y°?"l Y'^"S*°°' ^- ^'°^' Gimn, and others ; not nacoDimon by 

 SZl^ "" '^ P^''"'' ^' ^^^"'It Wellington, the Westeru Mountains, etc., /■ ^• 



Soaker. 



U. SOPUBIA, Ilamilt. 



l.r. If "" '^^P«""^«t<^= ^'th 5 teeth or lobes, valvate in the bud. Corolla 

 SBrefl'^rf '""^''',' "'"'■^y '""'^^^ °^ t^P^'""g i"to a short tube, with 5 fla 

 S h nl?nv r "'''^{ '''^''^- ^^'^™"'^ I the anthers cohering in pairs, eac 

 re ii ill" T''''> ^,^cronate perfect ceU and one small stipitate enip ) 

 nr iwn ^ ! f""'^ ^"'^ ^^"^"^^ fl'-^ttened towards the end. Capsule ovate 



or oblong, truncate or notched, opening loculicidally in 2 entii-e or at lengt 

 bifid valves.-Erect scabrous herbs, drying blackf Leaves narro^v, often 



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