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527. P. distigma Benth. 



Glenelg- River (J. Martin) ; Isdell River; Bell Creek (W.V.F.). 

 Stems simple or slightly branched, l-2ft. high; several erect 



together from the one stock; flowers purple or pale-blue^ 



On grassy flats. 



528. Breweria media R. Br. 



King Sound District (Froggatt) ; near Derby; Goody Goody; 



Native Well; Meda, Lennard, Isdell, Fitzroy and Barker 



Rivers (W.V.F. ). 

 Stems ascending "^rom a thickened stock and along with the 



leaves silky-hirsute; flowers bright blue. In light sandy 



soil. 



529. B. pannosa R. Br. 



Mt. Marmion, Lennard River; Ord, Denham and King Rivers 



(W.V.F.). 

 Stems prostrate, often several yards long; leaves ovate sericeous; 



flowers blue. In ferruginous gravels. 



530. B. rosea R. Br. 



Erect, l-2ft.; flowers nodding, pink to almost white. 



HYDROPHYLLACE^. 



531. Hydrolea zeylanica Vahl. 



King Sound District (Froggatt) ; Lennard, Fitzroy, Barker 

 and Isdell Rivers (W.V.F.). Not very common. 



BORRAGINE.a]. 



532. Ehretia saligna R. Br. 



A willow-like tree to 30ft. in height; trunk 8-lOft. ; diameter 

 6in.; bark greyish, smooth; timber pale and fairly hard; 

 flowers white or pale-yellow; fruits scarlet. 



533. Ehretia urceolata (W.V.F.), n. sp. 



Deciduous; shrubby to arborescent, glabrous, the branchlets 

 rather stout; leaves broad to narrow-linear, fine pointed 

 but, scarcely acute, tapering into conspicuous petioles, 

 entire, very obliquely veined; flowers in sub-axillary, re- 

 peatedly dichotomous pedunculate cymes, which are in- 

 curved when in fruit and always shorter than the leaves; 

 calyx lobed to the middle, the lobes ovate, obtuse, glabrous or 

 scantily ciliolate; corolla-tube urceolate and very thin, the 

 lobes reflexed, obtuse, as long as the tube; filaments rather 

 broad; anthers included, or the tips exserted, as long as 

 the filaments ; ovary two-celled with two ovules in each cell ; 

 style bifurcated halfway down, the entire part included. 



