772 LXIV. RUBIACEtE. [Psyehotrui. 



8. P. Simmondsiana (after J. H. Simiuonds), Bail. But. Bull. ii. A 

 spreading more or less hirsute shrub, rooting from the lower branches and 

 extending to 20 or more feet, but the more erect branches sseldom attaining more 

 than 2 or 3 feet in height ; branches glandular-hirsute. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 1 to nearly 2in. long, tapering to a petiole of about 2 or 3 lines ; primary veins 

 distant, 4'or 5 pairs, glandular-punctate, especially on the under side. Stipules 

 connate and usually opening out on one side, soon scarious and deciduous, 

 linear-lanceolate, 4 or 5 lines long, glandular-hirsute like the rest of the early 

 foliage. Peduncles slender in the upper axils, 1-| to 2in. long, bearing a head of 

 few sessile white flowers, or divided into 2 or 8 very short branches, each branch 

 bearing 3 sessile flowers. Calyx-teeth acute ; corolla pubesqent outside, the tube 

 slightly longer than the lobes ; lobes about 1 line long, slightly imbricate with 

 inflexed tips. Stamens 5, about half as long as the corolla-lobes, inserted in a 

 ring of short hairs at the mouth of the corolla-tube, the filaments shorter than 

 the anthers. Style long as the flower, the stigmatic lobes not spreading. 



Hab : Tambourine Mountain and Mooloolah scrubs. 



Var. glabrescens, Bot. Bull. ill. A slender usually erect glabrous shrub, more or less branched, 5 

 to 71t. high. Leaves lanceolate, IJ to 2iin. long ; petiole about Jin. long, pale on the under surface ; 

 primary veins alone visible, about 5 on each side of midrib, looping near the margin. Stipules 

 brown, more or less hairy, but very deciduous. Flowers small, sessile, or i>early so, few, on very 

 short branches at the end of a slender 4-angled peduncle of 1 to lAin. long. Calyx hairy, 5- 

 toothed. Corolla ovoid, velvety outside, bearded within ; lohi s about as long as the tube. 

 Fruit globose, white, about 3 lines, when dry (and especially when gathered 1 efore maturii;y) 

 showing the prominent ribs of the pyrenes. Hab.:.Be]lenden Ker Eange, Expedition, 1889; 

 Eudlo and Yandina scrubs. Field Naturalists, 1391. In the troiiical plants the panicle is slightly 

 more developed, and the stipules are larger, more hairy, and more persistent. 



Var. ? exigua, Bot. Bull. iii. A slender slightly branched shrub of 3 or 4ft., glabrous except 

 the flowers. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, J to IJin. long. , Hab.: Macpherson Eange, H. Schneider 

 and H. Tryon, March, 1891. From this locality Messrs. Schneider and Tryon also gathered 

 specimens of the normal form. 



28. GEOPHILA, D. Don. 

 (Earth-loving plant.) 



Calyx-tube small, campanulate, limb 4 to 6-toothed or partite, often irregular, 

 persistent. Corolla membranous, funnel-shaped, longer than the calyx ; tliroat 

 densely bearded ; limb usually 5-partite, spreading, lobes ovate, valvate in esti- 

 vation. Stamens usually 5, inserted at the throat of the corolla, exiserted or 

 included ; anthers linear, dorsifixed above the base ; filaments slender. Disk 

 elevated, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, with 2 branches, included or 

 exserted ; ovules solitary, erect ; placentas inconspicuous. Fruit fleshy, pisiform, 

 costate or smooth ; pyrenes 2, crustaceous, 1-seeded. Seeds with horny albumen ; 

 embryo minute, radicle inferior. — Small slender creeping rooting perennial herbs 

 with opposite cordate petiolate leaves, interpetiolar entire or cleft stipules, and 

 small terminal or lateral flowers braoteate at the base or enclosed a few together 

 in cup-shaped or hemispherical involucres. 

 A genus of a few species scattered over the the tropics. 



1. G. reniformis (kidney- shaped), D. Don Prodr. Fl. Xepal jj. 186. Stems 

 glabrous or puberulous. Leaves reniform or nearly orbicular, rounded or nearly 

 so or refuse at the apex, deeply cordate at the base, glabrous or nearly so, more 

 or less chartaceous, f to l^in. long, rather paler beneath ; petiole from 1 to Sin. 

 long, shortly hairy ; stipules ovate, about 1 line long, glabrous. Flowers 2 or 

 ■ few together, lateral ones sessile or subsessile ; common peduncle solitary, 

 glabrous or nearly so, terminating short erect leafy branches, 8 to 15 lines long; 

 bracts subulate-setaceous from a broad base, about 8 lines long. Calyx 3 lines 

 long ; segments 5, subulate-setaceous. Fruit small, globose, red. 

 Hab ; Common on hillsides in tropical Queensland. 



