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conspicuous stalklets pendent, almost unilaterally sup- 

 ported by two partially connate upwards narrowed 

 bracteoles ; corolla greenish- or yellowish-white, some- 

 what transparent, its tube broad-cylindrical, slightly 

 inflated, many times longer than the roundish hardly 

 unequal lobes ; fertile stamens about as long as the 

 corolla, fixed to its base, the fifth stamen rudimentary ; 

 anthers disconnected, cordate-roundish; style elongated; 

 disk annular, adnate ; fruit rather large ; placentaries 

 two-plated ; seeds brown outside. P. Australia. 



SCROPHULARINAE. 

 LIMOSELLA. 



1710. Flowers sessile. 



Leaves comparatively large, nearly always ovate, occa- 

 sionally on very long stalks ; lobes of the calyx 

 remaining much shorter than the tube ; corolla quite 

 enclosed, greenish-white; filaments particularly short; 

 fruit relatively of conspicuous size, indehiscent or very 

 tardily bursting ; seeds furrowed, dark-brown outside. 



Ii. Curdieana. 



Flowers on conspicuous stalklets. 



Leaves comparatively small, from oval and spatular to 

 linear ; lobes of the calyx soon as long as the tube ; 

 corolla partly exserted, white or rosy-red ; stamens rarely 

 two ; fruit very small, but somewhat exserted, two- 

 valved ; seeds minute. L. aquatica. 



GX.OSSOSTXGBXA. 



1711. Stalklets of flowers usually exceeding the leaves. 



Quite glabrous, rooting at the nodes ; leaves minute, from 

 narrow-elliptical to almost linear ; calyx often three- 

 lobed ; corolla very short, white, its lobes without any 

 ciliolation ; stamens four, generally reaching the end of 

 the corolla-lobes ; fruit minute, globular, enclosed, two- 

 valved. G. Drummondi. 



Stalklets of flowers usually exceeded by the leaves. 



Rooting at the nodes, intricately ramified, depressed; 

 leaves very small, on stalks of moderate length, from 

 spatular- to narrow-elliptical; calyx often four-lobed ; 

 corolla pale-bluish, its lobes fringy ciliolated ; stamens 

 four, generally much shorter than the corolla-lobes ; 

 ripe fruit unknown. G. elatinoides. 



