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anthers dilated at the base, with blunt short lobes; 

 hypogynous disk crenated. 



Parsonsia ventricosa. 



Climbing, leaves almost membraneous, ovate or lanceolate, 

 long acuminate, short-stalked, with rounded or emargi- 

 nate base, smooth ; umbells nearly capitate ; peduncles 

 slender, as well as pedicels and calyces puberulous ; calyx 

 deeply five-cleft, with rhomboid ovate pointed segments, 

 half as long as the corolla tube; lobes of the corolla 

 lanceolote, acuminate, of the length of the tube, glabrous; 

 filaments much shorter than the half exserted anthers. 



Vallies of the Pine Eiver. Hill and Mueller. 



Melodinus, Forster. 

 (Sect. Dichostemma.) 

 Faux of the corolla with a double series of bifid scales, 

 five in each series ; upper ones inserted to the base of 

 the corolla lobes, alternate with the inferior larger ones. 



Melodinus acutiflorus. 



Leaves lanceolate, flat, entire, blunt-acuminate, above 

 glabrous , shining, beneath paler, puberulous ; primary 

 veins distant, divided, spreading; peduncles axillary, 

 with two or three rarely single flowers, downy ; bracts 

 lanceolate subulate ; segments of the calyx lanceolate, 

 long pointed; lobes of the corolla lanceolate linear, acute; 

 faux densely bearded. 



On the Brisbane River. Hill and Mueller. 



SCROPHULAKIN^E. 



Eadesia. 



Calyx bell-shaped, five-cleft; corolla campanulate, somewhat 



funnel-shaped, five-cleft, indistinctly lipped ; lobes 



oblong, the upper two broadest ; stamens four, inserted 



to the base of the corolla, inclosed, two longer ; anthers 



kidney-shaped, one-celled, attached with their back to 



the linear filaments ; style simple, filiform ; stigma 



dilated; capsule globose ovate, two-celled, loculicidal; 



valves bifid at the apex ; seeds in each cell one or two, 



fixed to the base of the free dissepiments, kidney-shaped, 



scrobiculate. 



A shrub of Southern Australia, with velutinous branches, 



with alternate lanceolate flat nearly glabrous undivided 



leaves, which are articulated at the base, sessile or short 



