210 THE FLORA OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. 



Overland telegraph Une, near Elsie Creek, on poor sandy country, G. F. 

 HiU (842), 10/4/1912. 



Near Darwin and Greville IsJaiid, Gilruth and Spencer, July -August, 1911. 



Eecorded. Glenelg Eiver, and Eoebuek Bay, JST.W. Coast, Marten ; Vic- 

 toria Eiver and Amliem's Land, F. v. Mueller; Melville Island (not Port 

 Macquarie), Fraser; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, E. Brown; exposed 

 cli£Fs of Port Essiugton, A. Cunningham, Armstrong. 



13. HOMALOCALYX, F. v. M. 



Leaves linear, mucronate. Calyx-tube cylindrical, lobes and petals acute. 

 Stamens 9 to 15. — 1. H. ericaeus. 



, Leaves oblong-triquetrous, obtuse. Calyx-tube broadly turbinate, lobes 

 and petals broad, obtuse. Stamens 20 to 30. — 2. H. polyandrus. 



1. H. ericaeus, F. v. M. — ^Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; 

 elevated tableland between the Roper and Limmen Bight Rivers, F. v. Mueller. 



2. H. polyandrus, F. v. M. — ^N.A., Leichhardt, no station given. 



14. THEYPTOMElSrE, Endl. 

 (Paryphanta, Schau. ; Astraea, Sohau., Eremopyxis, Baill.) 



A. Calyx-tube hemispherical or shortly campanulate, rugose, and 

 pitted without prominent ribs. — 1. T. Maisonneuvii. 



B. Calyx-tube ovoid turbinate or cylindrical, not rugose, often ribbed. 

 Stamens 5. — 2. T. oligandra. Heath Myrtle. 



1. T. maisonneuvii, F. v. M. — ^Fincke River, McDouall Stuart's Ex- 

 pedition. 



2. T. oligandra, F. v. M. — ^Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



Var. parviflora, F. v. M.- — Barren places, Gilbert River, Gulf of Carpentaria 

 F. V. Mueller. 



15. VEETICOEDIA, DC. 1826. 

 (Chrysorrhoe, Lindl., 1836 ; Diplachne, R. Br., 1819.) 



A. Calyx-lobes 5, spreading, without reflexed accessory lobes or her- 

 baceous appendages. Racemes short, mostly terminal, almost corymbose. 

 Leaves linear-triquetrous or semiterete. — 1. V. Cunninghamii. 



B. Calyx-lobes 5, spreading, with subulate plumose divisions, 5 acces- 

 sory lobes outside and alternating with the primary ones, thin and trans- 

 parent, reflexed on the tube, fringed or densely ciliate and turned up again 

 from the base of the tube, and 6 herbaceous reflexed appendages on the tube 

 under the spreading lobes. Flowers forming racemes or spikes below the ends 

 of the branches or rarely short terminal racemes. Leaves obovate or 

 orbicular, usually glaucous. — 2. V. grandis. 



1. V. Cunninghamii, Schau. — ^North of 15°, Finnis River, W. S. Camp 

 bell (1), 5/9/1911. 



Recorded. York Sound, . A. Cunningham ; Victoria River, Bj^noe ; 

 islands of the GuK of Carpentaria, A. Brown ; Macadam Range, F. v. Mueller ; • 

 Port Essington, Armstrong. 



2. V. grandis, Drumm. — ^Lagrange Bay, N.W. Coast, Marten. 



