EaplirasiaP[ Lxxxiii, sckophularinejj:. 521 



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unites thera all uadcr Iho name of E. Brownii. It does not appear uccessaiy, liowever, to 

 discard Brown's names E. coU'uia or E, speciosa, either of which might, without inconveni- 

 euce, be applied to the collective species. This has the appearance of being generally, if 

 not always, perennial, but probably not of long duration, and sometimes evidently flowering 

 the first year, but its mode of growth requires further observation of the living plant. E. 

 tetragona, Br., from King George's Sound, is certainly one of the comniou forms of E. 

 eolliua, the stems are but very obscurely angular or compressed in the original typical spe- 

 cimens. E. 7mtl{ican!is, Benth., appears to be the typical E. colliua, Br. The whole series 

 are closely allied to the New Zealaud E. cuneata^ Forst. 



' 3. E, alpina, K Br. Prod. 436. A perennial, branching at the base, 

 with the habit of the smaller specimens of E. collina, xisually glabrous or 



very minutely puLesceiit, the stems ascending to 6 to 8 in. or rarely taller. 

 Leaves obovate to oblong-cuneate, narrowed at tlie base, very obtuse, with 

 few very obtuse teeth, rather thick, 2 to 3 lines long or the upper narrower 

 ones in luxuriant specimens 4 to 5 lines long. Flov.ers rather large, white 

 or bluish purple with darker streaks, usually in shoit compact spikes, rarely 

 more distant in interrupted spikes, the floral leaves or bracts broadly cuneate 

 and crenate. Anthers very hairy.— Benth. in DC. Prod- x. 553; Hook. f. 

 ri. Tasm. i. 296 (partly) ; ' E. dimenica, Spreng. Syst. ii. 777. 



W. S. 'Wales. Mount Kosciuslco, near the Victorian frontier, T. Mueller. 



Victoria. Summits of the CoLberas and IMuiiyong mountains, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Mount Wellington, R. Brown, Gunn, and others, Western Mountai.is, 

 <^tmn, C. Stuart. 



This may be an alnine form of K collina, differing from the glabrous vaneties of that 

 species in its short broad lower leaves, the inflorescence usually more compact with broader 

 more cuneate floral leaves. The variety humilk of the ' Prodromus is E. striata ; the 

 ^ar. aiKjvMlfolia must be reduced to E. coUina. 



4. E. Striata, R. Br. Trod. 436. A perennial branching at the base, 



^vith the habit of E. alpina, but smaller, the ascending or erect flo^^ring 

 steins usually only 2 or 3 in. high and very rarely exceeding 6 in., glabrous 

 except two decurrent lines of pubescence, and the inflorescence sometimes 

 glandular-pubescent. Leaves small, obovate or oblong, crenate-tootliea, tHe 

 floral ones cuneate, usually bvoad and toothed or almost digitate at he end. 

 i^lou-era in short compact 'spikes, usually white or pale coloured streaked with 

 i-ed or pui-ple. Anthers either quite glabrous or shortly or sparingly han-y 

 «}oiig the line of dehiscence.— Benth. in DC. Prod. x. o5J.; Hook. t. 1^1. 

 'iasin. i. 297 ; E. alpina, var. humilis, Benth. 1. c. 5o3. 



Victoria. 



Mueller. 





Victoria. Summ ts of the 13aw-mw, L-oooeia^, m>u ...<...jx.^„ --■;---- . 

 ^Tasmania. Summit of Mount Wellington, H. Bro.n A. Cnnmngharr, ^vA otheis 

 ^esteru Mountains, Archer; Birch's Inlet, Macqiiarne harbour, 3/./%a« ; South loit, C. 

 Stuart, 



/ 5. E. scabra, R, Br. Prod. 437. An erect, rigid, simple or branched 

 annual of i to 1 ft., scabrous-pubescent and not drying so black as E. coUim 

 «"<! its allies. Leaves oblong-lauceolate, with a few teeth more prominent 

 and less obtuse than in E. collina, and the upper ones often acute, the stem- 

 leaves rarely above i in. long, the floral ones narrow and more f it'^«'/^'^ 

 uppermost linear. Flowers yellow and scarcely or not at all streaKea u 

 t^^miinal spikes at first dense but at length often long and "f err. pted. 

 ^'alyx narrow, glandular-pubescent, the lobes almost acute. Lorolla-tuoe ex- 





