EubiaceaA FLORA OF TASMANIA. !<>'•> 
Whole plant generally quite glabrous and shining, the angles of the stems sometimes a little scabrid. Stems 
decumbent, branched, 1-10 inches long. Leaves scattered, broader than in any other Tasmaniau ap 
long, linear-obovate or oblong, acute, with recurved margins, that are sometime -liirlit ly scabrid 
or crowded, very short, few-flowered. Corolla with a rather long tube. 
§ 3. Leaves senate. 
3. Asperula scoparia (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 463) ; caule decumbente c basi ramoso, 
ramis ascendeiitibus pilis brevibus hispidis, foliis senis anguste linearibus patenti-recurvis in apicem pih- 
ferum acuminatis marginibus recurvis setoso-ciliatis, pedunculis in axillis supremis confertis folio breviori- 
bus, floribus hermaphrodito-clioicis, corollas tubo gracili. (Tab. XL. A.) 
Hab. Dry gravelly fields at Laurenny.— (Fl. Oct.) {v. v.) 
Distrib. Appin, New South Wales, Backhouse. 
An erect or decumbent, much fasciculately-branched species, 2-6 inches high. Stems much farrowed, hispid. 
pubescent, decumbent, with ascending short branches. Leaves spreading, sometimes a little recurred, very narrow- 
linear, rigid, with an acuminate hair point ; margins strong recurved, hispid. Cymes very short, crowd. ,1 toward 
the tips of the branches, few-flowered. Flowers unisexual; males with long funnel-shaped corollas, large anthers. 
and included style; females with shorter corollas, imperfect small stamens, and .xserted arms ot the style.— i.aiv. 
XL. A. Fig. 1, portion of branch and leaves; 2, male lower; 8, female flower; \. the same, laid 
and style : — all magnified, 
4. Aspemla conferta (Hook. fil. Lond. Journ. Bot vi. KM) ; giahrrascola, rauhlms confertis 
ascendentibus glaberrimis v. obscure scaberulis, foliis senis patenti-recumfl anguste Imearibui 
minatisve marginibus recurvis ciliato-scaberulis, pedunculis brevissimis in axillis supremis fasciculatis, llon- 
bus hermaphrodito-polygamis, corolla infundibuliformi. 
Var. a; internodiis folio longioribus, caule elongato. (Gunn, 159.) 
Yar. /3; internodiis folio brevioribus, caule brevi. (Gunn, 890.) 
Hab. Abundant in dry places throughout the Colony, Lawrence, Gunn.—(Y\. Sept.-Dec.) (*. v.) 
Disteib. South-eastern Australia. 
The commonest Tasmanian species, nearly allied to A. scoparia, but a much larger plant, with usually more 
glabrous stem, much shorter and broader leaves. Stems decumbent, 2-12 inches long, stout or slender, often much 
tufted, generally quite glabrous. Leaves ^-\ inch long. Mowers few in a cyme, like those of A. scoparia. 
5. Asperula pusilla (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 464); hispidula, caulibus decumbentibus 
confertis crespitosisve ramosis subrobustis ramisque ascendentibus erectisve scaberulis, foliis senis parvis 
lineari-obovatis oblongisve obtusis plerumque internodiis longioribus marginibus recums utnnque scabe- 
rulis, pedunculis brevibus in axillis supremis confertis, floribus hermaphrodito-dio.cis, corolla infundibuli- 
formi, tubo brevi latiusculo glaberrimo v. hispidulo. {Gunn, 557 et 891.) (Tab. XL. A) 
Hab. Common in alpine and subalpine situations; St. Patrick's River, Woolnorth, Hampshire Hills. 
Arthur's Lakes, etc., Lawrence, Gunn.— (Fl. Nov.-Jan.) (v. v.) 
fted species, scaberulous all over. Stems 3-6 inches long, often robust forth. 
in- densely Ieafv Leaves small, but generallv longer than the internodes, linear- 
obovatn or oktag, blunt or subacute, with nerved margins, hispid on both surfaces^ Flower, crowded in the 
upper a*ils, on sub-terminal peduncles, which are shorter than the leaves. Corolla wnh a short tube that of the 
Z Sower mther the longest. -Pl,t E XL. B. Fig. 1, portron of stem and leaves , 2, male flower , 3, the same. 
with the corolla laid open ; 5, female flower ; 6, fruit :-M mw&d. 
A small, general!; 
size of the plant, erect 
