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those of the female flowers; leaves petiolate, broad-linear 

 to narrow-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, obliquely taper- 

 ing at the base, the margins entire, soft and greenish on 

 both sides; flowers dioecious; males in lateral pedunculate 

 racemes, the pedicels as long as the calyx; calyx cupular, 

 the teeth broad and short; corolla hirsute without, broadly 

 and shallowly lobed ; anthers on very short filaments, ovate- 

 oblong ; ovary rudimentary ; female flowers solitary or thick, 

 lateral pedicels, which are erect at first but become reflexed 

 as the fruiting advances; calyx tube campanulate, the lobes 

 linear and shorter than the tube, ultimately becoming mem- 

 braneous, very prickly and enveloping the fruit ; corolla as 

 in the male flowers but much larger; anthers abortive; 

 ovary tMo-celled; stigma large and oblong; ripe fruits not 

 seen. 



Dillen's Springs (W.V.r.). 



Height l-2ft. Leaves mostly 2-2Jin. long, the petioles about 

 Jin. Flowers bluish. Males : peduncles lin. or more. 

 Pedicels 2 lines. Calyx 2 lines long. Corolla scarcely Jin. 

 diameter. Anthers 1 line long. Females : Pedicels J-lin. 

 Calyx |in. long, and subsequently enlarging. Corolla 

 almost lin. diameter. 



Among quartzite rocks and often in their crevices. 



Affinity to S. echinatum R. Br. 



562. .?. phlomoides A. Cunn. 



Diffuse, to 2ft. high. A pest along the Titzroy River. 



SCROPHITLARIACE.E. 



563. Stemodia flaccida "W.F.V., n. sp. 



A strongly scented scarcely branched fiaecid perennial, more or 

 less invested with a short white glandular pubescence ; leaves 

 opposite, membranous, the lower ones ovate, obtuse, on 

 long petioles, Axith stem-clasping auricles, coarsely toothed, 

 the upper bracteate ones gradually smaller, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, serrate, amplexicaul and distant; flowers on slender 

 axillary pedicels which frequently exceed the upper bracts, 

 bi-bracteolate; calyx, the upper lip broad, entire or almost 

 so, the lower with three broadly ovate, retuse or emarginate 

 lobes, scantily hirsute without, the throat within densely 

 hairy, anthers bilocular; capsule acuminate, rather narrow, 

 two-thirds as long as the calyx. 



Wingrah Pass, Napier Range (W.V.F.). 



Height l-2ft. Leaf laminae, 2-3in. long or less. Pedicels i-lin. 

 Calyx at least 3 lines long. Corolla Jin. long. Violet. 

 In the crevices of limestone rocks. 



Affinity to S. debilis Benth. 



