Gmelina. | XCII. VERBENACEX. 65 
d: peus conga at or above the. middle; style filiform, — 
lobed at the Fruit a succulent drupe, the putamen or 
vs 4-celled or S Iti 2-celled. Seeds solitary in each cell, vison 
albumen. Trees or tall shrubs. Leaves opposite, undivided. Flowers 
often rather large, pale purplish pink or blue, or in species not Aus- 
tralian, yellow, in cymes ar ranged in irregular 1 "ime panicles, some- 
times almost reduced to simple racemes. Bracts small. 
The extends over tropical sas and the Indian Archi ago. The Australiar 
species, iios with the aspect of some Asiatic ones, appear to be all endemic. 
Leaves glabrous (above 6 in. ). Panicle ug. and narrow. Cym 
ate 1. G. macrophylla. 
ap glabrous (under 6i in.). - Cymes forming sessile clusters FON 
the fhachis of the panicle or of its branches 2. G. fasciculiflora. 
tien tomentose prm. Aug Mida ina loosely 
pyramidal panicle PAHS: Ur. diis 
obtuse, boul and Nometitnes almost Perea at the Wn y to 
sone Tomis and glabrous but not shining, on petioles of 1 to 1} 
"pale blue," in a long terminal thyrsoid o ae 2 
cynes on inite peduncles, the pedicels very short. 
anulate, about 2 lines long, truncate or sinuate-lobed, Ra oe en- 
targed or sometimes sli htly expanded under the fruit. Corolla villous 
outside with a appressed hairs, the tube declinate and much dilated u 
n 
o * 
lower one rather larger than the others. anes ascending under 
tralia. Port Es. ton, pru 
nsland. Cape ps Banks Md laar. ; Cape York, Daemel; Rock- 
ing am "Ros Dallachy. 
|, ~ G. fasciculiflora, Benth. A tall tree, nearly glabrous Wed 
| the inflorescence which is densely ferruginous-tomen Leav 
? us o 
bracts shorter than the calyxes. Pedicels very short. Calyx 
oadly campanulate, ferruginous-villous, about 2 lines long, mcm 
de mou toothed. Corolla * pale cus Voy ew Me 
. : han in G. 
the lower lip fu : prs a large broad middle lobe, the d 
or all broad - much s t 
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