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2. multiflora, Zinn. An erect annual of 1 to 2 ft., somewhat — 
hispid, inflated below head. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, with round 
subsessile base. Involucre campanulate, bracts compressed. Rays 
obovate, reddish-purple on the upper surface, pale beneath. Achenes 
of the disk with a single awn. 
Hab.: This South American annual*has now become naturalised in several 
parts of Queensland. 
Order SOLANACEZA. 
Tris—e SALPIGLOSSID &. 
| DUBOISIA, R. Br. 
D. Leichhardti, Fv. 17, Fragm. vi. 142; Fl. Austr. iv. 481, 
under the genus Amnthocercis—since placed by Baron Mueller in 
Duboisia. A glabrous shrub or small tree, differing but little from D. 
myoporoides. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, rather obtuse, entire, narrowed 
into a petiole, quite flat, 2 to 4 in. long. Panicles terminal, somewhat 
leafy at the base, broadly pyramidal or corymbose. Bracts very small ; 
pedicels short. Calyx small, broadly campanulate, with short broad 
teeth. Corolla-tube nearly 2 lines long, ovate-campanulate ; lobes 
narrow, acuminate, rather longer than the tube. Anthers 1-celled. 
Fruit an oval black berry about 3 lines long, containing about 6 reni- 
form granulated seeds about 1 line long. 
Hab.: Baron Mueller writes me that he has received specimens of the above 
plant from Mrs. Biddulph, Mount Playfair. 
Order ACANTHACEA, 
Trizsse THUNBERGIEZ, 
THUNBERGIA, Linn. 
T. Powelli, F. v. I, South. Sci. 
Powell, who first collected specimens of the plant.) A herbaceous 
pubescent twiner. Leaves hastate on longish petioles. Flowers pure — 
white, much exceed Me 
nearly glabrous, with short teeth. Anthers beardless, spurs very short, — 
stigma undivided, Fruit nearly glabrous.—F. v. MW. Le. : 
Hab. : Goode Island, near Thursday Island, Torres Strait. 
Order AMARANTACEZA. 
Tris AMARANTEA, 
TRICHINIUM, R. Br. 
Series Ruopostracuya. 
woolly-hairy near the inflorescence. Radical leaves about 1+ in. long 
b 
somewhat similar form, nearly sessile, the apex pungentl mucronate. | 
Spike at first ovoid-conical, at length eyunteioat still with a conical 
