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136 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Weenen, Natal, 4500 ft. alt., Dec., 1890, Wood 1506 (G); 
Todyssith: Natal, 18 March, 1894, Кили (0. S.). 
Australia: 
New South Wales: Gerilderie, Oct., 1920 Dwyer (Wellesley); 
Mudgee, without date, Woolls (С). 
Vietoria: Lower Loddon, without date, Mueller (G); Lower 
Loddon, without date, Walter (M); Swan Hill District, Oct., 
1888, French (G). 
4. M. madagascariensis Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 369. 1846. 
A tall glabrous perennial; stems erect; leaves few, broadly 
ovate, obtuse, 1.5-2 cm. long, 8-12 mm. sie. sessile, irregularly 
dentate, 3-nerved from the broad, clasping base; pedicels stout, 
longer than the leaves; calyx narrowly cylindrical, 6—7 mm. long, 
distended by the mature capsule, teeth equal, short, lanceolate- 
acute; corolla blue, 12-14 mm. long, tube.exserted, throat densely 
bearded on the lower side, partly closed by the prominent palate, 
upper lip shorter than the lower, margins densely ciliate; stamens 
and style included; capsule broadly oblong, obtuse; seeds oblong. 
Distribution: она only on the Island of Madagascar. 
Specimens examined: 
Madagascar: Madagascar, without date, Shufeldt 116 (U. SJ); 
Madagascar, without date, Lyall (M, photograph of the type). 
This species has the general aspect of M. gracilis, differing 
mainly in having broad, 3-nerved, dentate leaves. 
5. M. linearis (R. Br.) Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflan- 
zenfam. 4*: 72. 1891 
Uvedalia linearis В. Br. Prodr. 440. 1810, and 124. 1821; 
G. Don, Hist. Dichlam. Pl. 4: 555. 1838. 
M. Uvedaliae Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 369. 1846; Mueller, 
Frag. 6: 103. 1867-68; Benth. & Mueller, Fl. Austr. 4: 482. 
1869; Banks & Solander, Botany Cook's Exp. 2: 66, pl. 217. 
1901; Bailey, Fl. Queensland 4: 1102. 1901. 
A small glabrous plant, apparently annual; stem weak, slender, 
simple or branched, leaves few, linear-ianceolaté; 4-12 mm. long, 
acute, l-nerved, entire, sessile, internodes elongated; 
slender, axillary, 3 or more times the length of the corolla, flower- 
