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7. TRICHODESMA, R. Br. 1810. 



(Borraginoides, Moench., 1794 ; Friedrichsthalia, Fenzl., 1839 ; Leio- 

 carya, Hochst., 1844 ; PoUicMa, Medikus., 1783 ; Spiroconus, Stev., 1851 ; 

 Streblanthera, Steud., 1844.) 



Calyx -segments short and broad, almost cordate, but not auriculate. — 1. 

 T. latisepaleum. 



Calyx-segments lanceolate, acuminate, or broad without auricles. — 2. T. 

 zeylanicum. 



1. T. luUsepaleum, F. v. M. {Pollichia latisepalea, F. v. J/.).— -Ten miles 

 W. of Eva Downs, G. F. Hill (625), 19/8/1911. 



Recorded. Hooker's and Sturt's Creeks, F. v. Mueller. 



2. T. zeylanicum, E. Br. {Pollichia zeylanica, F. v. M.). — Batchelor 

 Farm, G. F. HUl (2nd Series, 68), 17/7/1913. 



110 miles N. of N.T. Survey Camp IV., G. F. Hill (410), 1/7/1911. 



Maude Creek, Gilruth and Spencer, July- August, 1911. 



Twelve miles S. of AUce Springs, G. F. HiU (127), 23/4/1911. 



Near Hermansburg, Finke River, G. F. Hill (78), 12/3/1911. 



Recorded. N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham and others; "Victoria River, 

 F. V. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria and adjoining mainland, R. 

 Brown and others. A favourite cEimel fodder. 



Cynogloesum Drummoudii Benth. ; recorded from North Australia in 

 National Hi&rbarium Census. 



VERBENACEAE. 



Tribe I. — Vf-rheneae. Ovules ascending from the base of the cells. 

 Flowers in racemes or spikes sometimes contracted into heads, solitary within 

 each bract, without braoteoles. 



Ovary 2-celled, with one ovule in each cell. Spikes dense, usually con- 

 tracted into heads.- — 2. Lippia. 



Ovary 4-celled, with one ovule in each cell. Spike elongated. — 1. Ver- 

 bena. 



Tribe II. — Viticeae. Ovules laterally attached above the base or neai 

 the top. Flowers in cymes, or if solitaiy or in spikes usually accompanied by 

 two bracteoles besides the subtending bract or leaf. 



Sub-tribe I. — Chloantheae. Ovary not lobed. Fruit small, dry, or rarely 

 drupaceous. Shrubs or herbs usually very cottony or woolly, rarely nearly 

 glabrous, glutinous, or resinous. Seeds where known always albuminous. 

 Corolla small, regular, or nearly so. Stamens isomerous. 



Style entire or minutely 2-lobed. Flowers in dense woolly spikes. — 



8. Newcastlia. 

 Style deeply 2-lobed. Flowers S-merous in heads, cymes or panicles. 

 — 7 . Dicrastyles . 

 Corolla more or less 2-lipped, or unequally 5-lobed. Stamens 4. 

 Anthers with a basal appendage.— 4. Pityrodia. 

 Anthers without any basal appendages. 



Calyx-lobes much enlarged, spreading and veined after flower- 

 ing. — 6. Cyanostegia. 

 Corolla small, the tube narrow, the upper Up erect. Leaves 

 mucronately toothed. — 5. Denisonia. 

 Perfect Stamens 2. — 3. Stachytarpheta. 



