Stri//a.] Lxxxiii. sckopiiularinejE. 517 



A very scabrous, erect, simple or slightly branclied annual of 6 to 9 in. 

 Leaves linear, usually sliort, the floral ones very narrow. Flowers small 

 (blue ?), in more or less interrupted terminal spikes. Calyx 1 to li lines long, 

 with 5 very scabrous and prominent ribs, and smooth between them or here 

 and there with an imperfect row of minute prickles. Corolla scarcely 3 lines 

 long, the tube bent near the top, the lobes all very short, but the upper lip 

 more than half as long as the lower one. Capsule hvot\d.—Buclmera parci- 

 fora, E. Br. Prod. 438. 



Queensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Peak Range, LeicUard[ ; Broad Sound, 

 Snttor and Bowen rivers, Nerkool Creek, Gracemere, Bowman. 



3. S. mvdtiflora, Be)dJi. in Comp. Bot. Mag. and in DC. Prod. x. 501. 

 Nearly allied to S. parvijora and to S. cnrvijhra, and in some respects inter- 

 mediate between the two, with a similar calyx but different corolla. Stems 

 erect and usually branched, often above I'ft. high. Leaves linear, often 

 above 1 in. long,' the floral ones small and narrow. Tlowcrs usually nume- 

 rous (blue or purple?). Corolla glabrous glandular or pubescent, mterme- 

 ftiate in size between those of S. panu/Iora and S. ciirviflora, but in some spe- 

 cimens fully as large as in the latter, the upper lip shortly and broadly 2-.lobed, 

 raore than half as long as the lower lip. 



N. Australia. Victoria river and Start's Creek, F. Mueller; on all the islands to the 

 'festward of Goulburn islauJ, J. Cunningham; Port Essington, Arvistwug; Camden llar- 

 oour, Glenelg district, N.W. coast, Marten (with remarkably large flowers). 



I have now some doubts whether the Philippine Island and Molucca plant I referred to 

 this species in the « Prodromus ' be really the same. 



4. S. niiT.^;fl«^« -Ranfl, ;«. nmnn. Bot. Man. and in DC. Prod. x. 501. 



cimens above 1 ft. hioh, simple and slightly branched and very scabrous. 

 Leaves linear, the lower ones above 1 in. high. Flowers (blue or purple O 

 iu terminal interrupted spikes. Calyx 3 lines long or more, with long subu- 

 late-acuminate teeth, the tube with 5 prominent scabrous ribs and smooth 

 between them. Corolla pubescent, the tube 4 to 5 hues long, bent near the 

 top, the lobes of the lower lip 3 to 4 lines long, the upper lip slightly notched, 

 °«ly 1 to li lines long, usually somewhat vecmved.-BucImera curcijlora, li, 

 Br. Prod. 438. 



W. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentari^v, R Bro^.. Y.fi^r'o'tr;/ ■ 

 „ Queensland. Eudeavonr river, Banks and Solander ; Roekhamptou, Shancsy . 



^ape York, Daemel. 



28. RHAMPHICABPA, Benth. 



Calyx eampanuhde, 5-lobed. Corolla-tube long and ^^^";;--: ^^,^^^^^^^^ 

 f'ghtly curved; lobe 5, obovate, nearly equal or the ^ "PPej -^f^^^^^ 

 Y) rather smaller. Stamens 4, in pairs ; ^f ers -eel el veitical, ob u e 

 Capsule ovate, compressed or turgid, acuminate, with a .^t' ^^^ °;^^,^;^^^^^^^ 

 ^eak, opening loculicidally in 2 valves.--Erect brauchmg g abimi, h^^^^^^^ 

 ^'■ying black and perhaps parasitical. Lower leaves ^PPO^t^^. ^PFr -- 

 alternate, entire or the lower ones pinnately divided. Floneis m teiminal 

 "^'■fmes, usually without bractcoles. 



