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200 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
short, triangular-acute, nearly equal, ciliate; corolla 9-10 mm. 
long, tube slender, much exserted, yellow, throat expanded, ap- 
parently glabrous within, slightly constricted at the apex, lobes 
blue, rounded, somewhat rotately spreading; stamens included, 
glabrous; style almost as long as the corolla, pubescent, stigma- 
lips broadly rounded, equal, with a laciniate margin; capsule 
broadly obovate, obtuse, the valves dehiscent along both sutures 
and breaking away near the base, placentae adherent; seeds sub- 
globose, reticulate. 
Distribution: wet places in the southern part of Australia. 
Specimens examined: 
New South Wales: Darling River, without date, Mueller (G). 
30. M. breviflorus Piper in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28: 45. 
1901; Fl. Southeast Wash. and Adj. Idaho, 228. 1914; Howell, 
Fl. Northwest Am. 521. 1901; Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mountains, 
779. 1917. 
Stem slender, 3-15 em. long, freely branched, branches erect or 
slightly spreading, puberulent; leaves rhombic-ovate or oblance- 
olate, .5-1.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, narrowing to a slender рей- 
ole, denticulate or rarely entire, 1-3-nerved; pedicels mostly 
erect, slender, usually slightly longer than the leaves, puberulent; 
ealyx tubular, 3-5 mm. long, becoming enlarged and somewhat 
inflated in fruit, 5-7 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, teeth short, equal, 
deltoid-acute, frequently subulate, sparsely hispid, slightly con- 
stricted at the orifice when mature; corolla 4—7 mm. long, pale 
yellow, tube included, lobes nearly equal, truncate, entire; sta- 
mens filiform, included, white, glabrous; style short, glabrous, 
scarcely longer than the calyx, stigma-lips nearly equal; capsule 
included, oblong, slightly stipitate, placentae adherent to the 
apex; seeds oval, favose-pitted. 
Distribution: wet places in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. 
Specimens examined: 
Idaho: Lake Waha, Nez Perces Co., 2500-3000 ft. alt., 24 June, 
1896, Heller & Heller 3320 (Cornell, M, and Stanford); sunny 
stream margin, Silver City, Owyhee Co., 7000 ft. alt., 17 June, 
1911, Macbride 900 (M, R. Mt., and Stanford); Julietta, 
Latah Co., June, 1892, Sandberg, MacDougal & Heller ЗИ 
