yoi LXXXV. OKOBANCIIACE.l:]. [Orohauclie. 



one-third of the stem. Bracts acuminate, acute, shorter than the corolJa. 

 Scpnls in the Austi'alian specimens 2, entire, lanceoL^te, with long points, 

 nearly as long as the bracts. Corolla tubular, incurved, about | in. long, 

 glabrous or minutely glandular-pTibescent towards the top ; upper lip very 

 concave, with 2 short broad lobes, not ciliate ; lower lip divided into 3 ovate 

 shortly acuminate spreading lobes. Filaments glabrous ; autliers not mucro- 

 nate. Style glabrous, with short very thick stigmatic lobes. 



^ Victoria. Black Forest on Senecio lautuSy and Cape Grant, T. Mueller; Murray 

 rivet, Ballachy. 



S. Australia. Near Cudnaka, T. Mueller, 



\V. Australia, Brummond, w. 185, 198 ; Swan Eiver, Oldfield ; riiuders Bay, 

 Collie, 



The species is an iuhabitant of the Mediterraneaa region of the northern hemisphere, 

 where it is found on several species of Artemisia, and extends to E. India. Its introduction 

 into Anstralia is not easily accounted for. 



OuDEE LXXXVI. GESNERIACE^. 



(CyrtandracesB, BC, Prod.) 



the addition sometimes of a fifth barren one or staminodium. Anthers 3-cellcd 

 or 1-celled by the confluence of the two, the cells opening longitudinally. 

 Ovary superior or more or less inferior, 1-celled, with 2 parietal entire or 

 lobed placentas, protruding more or less into the cavity, but not united in 

 Uie axis. Ovules numerous. Style simple, with an entire or lobed stigma. 

 ± ruit a beny or capsr.le. Seeds 'small, numerous, with or without albumen. 

 Jlimbryo straight.— Herbs or rarely shrubs or climbers. Leaves opposite or 



whorled. 



A considerable Order, chiefly tropical, with a very few species from more temperate 

 cumates. Of the two Australian genera, one is endemic, the other is Asiatic, extending 

 into China beyond the tropics, and westward to the Seychelles islands. Both belong to the 

 inoe ot LyrUndrea, characterized by a superior ovary and by the seeds containing little or 

 no albumen. This tribe is limited to the Old World, with the exception of a very few 

 American species, whilst the other two tribes, Gmieriece and Besferiea, are exclusively 

 Amencan. 1 he Order differs from Seropludarinea and Binnoniacea chiefly in the parietal 

 placentation of the ovary. '' 



Zlri^' "It^'I- °[ .^P'P^^te- Fruit globular, sllcrhtly pulpy, indehiscent . . 1- FiEi^"'^- 

 Herb wnth radical leaves. Fruit a spirally twisted linear capsule .... 2- B^A. 



1. FIELDIA, A. Cunn. 



Calyx divided to the base into 5 segments. Corolla tubular, the limb 5- 

 lobed, somewhat 2-lipped. Stamens 4, dldynamous ; anther-cells parallel, 

 distinct. Stigma 2-Iobed. Fruit slightW pulpy, indehiscent. -Woody 

 chmber or epiphyte. Leaves opposite, luiequal. Pedicels axillaiy, 1- 

 flowered, with herbaceous bracteoles under the calyx. 



The genus is hmited to a single ?pecies, endemic in Australia. 



