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oblong, blunt, winged at the base; cyme simple, close; lobes 
of the corolla four, whitish, ovate-oblong, blunt, half as 
long as the tube; style short-exerted, with a bifid stigma. 
In saline pastures from Port Phillip to Port Fairy, and at 
George Town in Tasmania. 
Approaches next in its characters to S. albens from South 
Africa. 
Myorporina. 
Pholidia, R. Brown. 
(Sect. Sentis.) 
Leavesalternate. Calyx four-parted. Drupe bony, hard- 
beaked, with imperfectly divided cells. 
Al. Pholidia divaricata. 
Twigs spreading, spinescent, glabrous or with a row of 
white short hair; axils of the leaves somewhat bearded; 
leaves glabrous, linear - oblong, blunt, gradually tapering 
into the base, entire; flowers axillary, solitary, nearly sessile; 
segments of the calyx narrow-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
ciliated ; corolla outside starry-velutinous ; its upperlip 
with two very short lobes, lower one three-parted. 
In bushy plains, subject to inundations on the banks of 
the Murray River, the Darling and Murrumbidgee. 
An ornamental shrub, several feet high, with purple or 
white generally spotted flowers. 
(Sect. Hremicola.) 
Leaves alternate, deciduous. Calyx five parted. Drupe 
dry, acuminate, with almost entirely divided cells. 
42. Pholidia polyclada. 
Glabrous; branches and twigs spreading, not spinescent; 
leaves linear, somewhat channelled, blunt, entire, sessile; 
pedicels axillary, solitary, upwards thickened, longer than the 
calyx; axils glabrous; segments of the calyx nearly cordate, 
acuminate, with minute ear-like appendages at the base, 
indistinctly ciliate at the margin; corolla outwards glabrous, 
very wide, surpassing many times the length of the calyx; 
upper lip bifid, lower one three-parted. 
In sandy-loamy desert plains at the junction of the 
Darling and Murray. 
