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purple flowers about 1' long, numerous in bracted terminal panicles. [Gold- 

 fussio color ata Nees.] 



Strobilanthes isophyllus (Nees) T. Anders., Narrow-leaved Strobi- 

 LANTHES, also East Indian, about 2° high, ^Yitll linear-lanceolate leaves 4'-8' 

 long and panicled bluish flowers was grown at the Public Garden, St. Georges, 

 in 1912. 



Fittonia argyroneura E. Coem., White-veined Fittonia, of western 

 South America, commonly grown in green houses, and less successfully on rock 

 work, is a pubescent perennial, with spreading or trailing branches, and 

 broadly ovate rounded entire leaves 2'-3' long, rather dark green^ and con- 

 spicuously white-veined; the yellowish flowers of this plant are borne in pe- 

 duncled narrow bracted spikes, the slender corolla with a long narrow lip. 



Under the name Cyrtanthera rosea, Lefroy records a plant of this family 

 grown in gardens at St. George's and at Mt. Langton, where it was brought 

 from Ireland in 1874; I have been unable to identify this, there being no pub- 

 lished species of that name. 



Family 14. MYOPORACEAE Lindl. 



Myoporum Family. 



Shrubs or trees^ with alternate or opposite, entire stipulate leaves, 

 and perfect, more or less irregular flowers, solitary or clustered in the 

 axils. Calyx inferior, 5-parted. Corolla gamopetalous, its limb 2-lipped 

 or oblique. Stamens 4, mostly didynamous, borne on the corolla-tube, the 

 filaments filiform. Ovar>^ usually 2-celled ; style terminal ; stigma terminal 

 and small; ovules 1 in each ovary-cavity. Fruit a drupe. Five genera 

 and 80 species or more, mostly Australian, only the following American. 



Bontia daphnoides L., Bontia, West Indian, a shrub or low tree, grow- 

 ing in 1913 in a garden in Smith's Parish, has lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 entire somewhat fleshy, short-petioled acute faintly veined leaves 3'-4' long, 

 and peduncled flowers solitary in the upper axils, the peduncles longer than the 

 petioles; the obconic calyx, about 2*" long, has 5 ovate acute ciliate lobes; 

 the yellowish, purple-mottled corolla is nearly 1' long, tubular, 2-lipped, the 

 upper lip nearly straight, the lower shorter and reflexed, pilose within, the 

 longer pair of stamens a little exserted; its yellowish drupe is about i' long. 



Family 15. PHRYMACEAE Schauer. 



LoPSEED Family. 



An erect perennial herb w^ith divaricate branches, opposite membranous 

 simple leaves, and small irregular purplish flowers, distant in slender 

 elongated spikes. Calyx cylindric, 2-lipped; upper lip 2-cleft, the teeth 

 setaceous; lower lip much shorter, 3-toothed, the teeth subulate. Corolla- 

 tube cylindric, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip erect, concave, emarginate; 

 lower lip larger, spreading, convex, 3-lobed, the lobes obtuse. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, included. Ovary oblique, 1-cellod; ovule 1, orthotropous, as- 

 cending; style slender; stigma 2-lobed. Calyx reflexed in fruit, enclosing 

 the dry achene, becoming prominently ribbed, closed and its teeth hooked 

 at the ends Cotjdedons convolute; radicle superior. Consists of the 

 following" • 



