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stems; leaves obking, sessile, half-clasping, ligid, with dis- 

 tant spreading teeth and prominent nerves below ; bracts 

 longer than the o-toothed calyx ; corolla bluish, the tube 

 slender, about 3 times as long as calyx. 



Waterfall Gully.— Nov. -Dec. — Temperate .South America. 



3. V. supina, L. Annual, 

 rough with appres.sed hairs or 

 almo.st glabrous: stems branched, 

 ascending or procumbent ; leaves 

 stiff, sometimes in whorls of 3; 

 stalked, oval in outline, wedge- 

 shaped at base, bipinnatifid with 

 blunt lobes; flowers small, lilac, 

 in terminal spikes ; bracts broad- 

 lanceolate, half as long as the 

 calyx, which is 4-angled, rough- 

 hairy, with 4 minute teeth; 

 corolla with o .spreading lobes, 

 the tube slightly exceeding the 

 calyx, bent, .swollen and downy 

 about the middle, with a ring of 

 hairs in tiie throat: carpels with 

 a blunt keel on the back, and 

 transversely wrinkled near the 

 top. 



Roadsides, Adelaide plains. — 

 Oct. -Apl.— Mediterranean region. 



Verbena supina. 



Diechisma capitatum. 

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Family 41.— SELAGINACE>C. 



Flowers irregular ; calyx divided 

 into 2 sepals; stamens 4. in pairs, 

 inserted at the summit of the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers 1-celled ; 

 (A ary simple, 2-celled, with 1 

 hanging ovule in each cell; style 

 undivided ; fruit dry, separating 

 into two 1-seeded carpels. 



1. DiscHiSMA, Choisy. 

 1. Dischisma capita- 



tunrii Choisy. A small annual, 

 white-woolly on the young parts; 

 sterns ascending, simple or 

 branched; leaves linear, blunt, 

 ciliate at base, and with a few 

 blunt teeth near the top ; lower 

 leaves opposite, upper alternate ; 

 ^ flowers small, white, in ovoid, 

 terminal spikes, each flower 

 within a floral leaf or bract 

 resembling the stem-leaves, but 

 with a broad, ciliate base as long 



