10g THE SAND STRAND FLORA 



APOCYNEAB. 

 Alyxia luxifolia B. Br. 

 Low shrub, spreading, glabrous; leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 

 obovate, obtuse, thick, margins recurved. 



Abundant on coastal sand dunes in Victoria and South Australia. 

 Also in Western Australia (Perth) and Tasmania. 



LOGANIACEAE. 

 Mitreola paradoxa E. Br. 

 Erect, branching annual, slender, 7 — 12 cm. high, glabrous; leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, connate, sheathing at the base, 6 — 10 mm. long; flow- 

 ers small, white. 



On coastal sand in Tasmania and Australia. Victoria (Port Phillip), 

 South Australia, Western Australia (Fremantle). 



GENTIANACEAE. 

 Erythraea australis E. Br. 

 Erect glabrous annual, 15 — 45 em. high, with few branches; leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate, obtuse, the lower stem-clasping, 1 — 3 cm. long; flow- 

 ers pink. 



Common on all Australian coasts, and also in a few inland places. 

 New Caledonia. 



Differs very little from E. spicata Pers., the common form in the 

 Mediterranean countries. 



E. litoralis Bab. 

 Annual, much branched, 5 — 25 cm high, leaves narrow, forming a 

 spreading radical tuft, the upper in pairs, narrow-linear; flowers red. 

 Common in Europe and Central Asia. 



E. Muehlmbergii Gris. 

 Annual, simple, or branched from base; 5—15 cm. high; leaves ob- 

 long, obtuse, 1 — 2 cm. long; flowers rose colored. 



Coast of California from Monterey to San Francisco. 



E. pulcheUa Sw. 

 Low annual, with single much-branched stem; leaves thin, ovate, the 

 radical opposite; flowers small, red. 

 Coasts of Baltic. 



