40 Lxiv. goodenoviejE. [LescIteHauIfia. 



Leaves and stems filiform. Capsule pedicellate 15. L, Jt/flor?nis, 



Leaves linear, acute, slightly flattened. Stems filiform. Capsule 



sessile 16. Z. agrostophylJa. 



Sect. I. Euleschenaultia. Capsule seed-bearing and 4-valved to the 

 top. Flowers solitary on stort leafy branclilets or in compact leafy eoiymbs. 



1. L. formosa^ i?. Br. Prod, 581. A weak, diffuse or spreadinj^ and 



mncli-branclied shrub, attaining sometimes 2 ft. Leaves rather loosely 

 scattered, obtuse or scarcely acute, 2 to 4 lines long. Flowers red, solitary, 

 terminating short leafy braiichlets or becoming lateral by the growing out of 

 the upper axillary bud. Calyx-tube longer than the surrounding leaves; 

 lobes linear or linear-lanceolate. Corolla-tube 3 to 5 lines long, split to the 

 base ; lower lobes large and spreading, but not longer than the tube ; upper 

 ones broad rounded, erect and connivent, shorter than the lower ones. Cap- 

 sule I to 1. in. long.— DC. Prod. vii. 519 ; De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 414; 

 Sweet, n. Austral, t. 26 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 916 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2600 ; Z. oblata. 

 Sweet, FL Austral, t. 46; L, multl flora, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1579; PC. 

 Prod. vii. 519 ; L. Baxteri, G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 79. 



Vf. Australia. King George's Souud aud adjoining districts, R. Brown,, Drummavd, 

 «. 178, Preiss^n. 1457, 1458, F. Mueller md. others; eastward to Stokes Inlet aud Cape 

 Arid, MaxwelL 



Sweet distinguishes Z. ohlata by the larger wings of the corolla -lobes and by the 

 pubescent filaments and corolla, but 1 find the wings sometimes quite as broad with perfectly 

 glabrous filaments, and the hairs, when present on the filaments and back of the corolla, are 

 but very few aud small. F. Mueller sends some specimens which he considers as distinct 

 from L.formosa in having an erect stem ; I can find no other differences, 



2. Ij. chlorantha, F. MudL Fragm. ii. 20, A low, diffuse, much- 

 branched shrub, with the habit of L,formosa, but the leaves are finer, \ to _ 

 in. long. Inflorescence and flowers the same, except that the tw^o upper 

 connivent lobes of the corolla are acuminate and more or less recurved, and 

 the colour, according to Oldfield's label, is pale green, which does not show 

 on the specimen. 



. IV- Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. 



Some specimens from the Kalgan river, OldfieM, in Herb. Hook., have the fine leaves 

 and acuminate upper corolla-lobes of L. chlorantha^ but the flowers are marked on Oldfield's 

 label as turquoise blue, the corresponding specimens in Herb. F. Mueller are marked as 

 having the flowers red. Perhaps the whole are a variety only of L.formosa. In the dried 

 state the flowers look red in all. 



3. L. linarioides, DC. Prod. vii. 519. A prostrate or divaricately 

 branched shrub, attaining sometimes several feet, the branches often much 

 incuiTed at the end. Leaves not crowded, slender, acute, sometimes exceed- 

 ing I in. Flowers rather large, terminatino: short branchlets and sessile 



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within the upper leaves, often several together in a terminal leafy corymb, the 

 flowering branchlets or even the calyx-tube itself often much incurved or 

 twisted. Calyx-lobes lanceolate. Corolla-tube short, broad, and gibbous, 

 he lower lobes often f in. long, with very broad wings of a greenish-yellow, 

 the upper lobes reddish, oval-oblong, erect and connivent, much shorter than 

 the lower ones. Capsule cunred, 1 to 1| in. lonir.—Z. arcuala, De Vr. in 

 PI. Preiss. i. 416, Gooden. 186; Bot. Mag. t. 4265, copied into FL Jes 



