Australian Plants, 



4.1 



oblong, bluntj winged at the base ; cyme simple, close ; lobes 

 of the corolla four, whitish, ovate-oblong, blunt, half as 

 long as the tube ; style short-exerted, with a bifid stigma. 



In saline pastures from Port Phillip to Port Fairy, and at 

 George Town in Tasmania. 



Approaches next in its characters to S. albens from South 

 Africa. 



Myopoein^. 

 Pholidia^ R, Brown, 



( Beet. Sentis.) 



Leaves alternate. Calyx four-parted. Drupe bony, hard- 

 beaked, with imperfectly divided cells. 



41. Pholidla divartcata. 



Twigs spreading, spincscent, glabrous or with a row of 

 white short hair; axils of the leaves somewhat bearded; 

 leaves glabrous, linear - oblong, blunt, gradually tapering 

 into the base, entire; flowers axillary, solitary, nearly sessile; 

 segments of the calyx narrow-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 ciliated ; corolla outside starry - velutinous ; its upperlip 

 with two very short lobes, lower one three-parted. 



In busby plains, subject to inundations on the banks of 

 the Murray Kiver, the Darling and Murrumbidgee. 



An ornamental shrub, several feet high, with purple or 

 white generally spotted flowers. 



(Sect. ^remicola.J 



Leaves alternate, deciduous. Calyx five parted. Drupe 

 dry, acuminate, with almost entirely divided cells. 



42. PJtolidia polyclada. 



Glabrous; branches and twigs spreading, not spinescent; 

 leaves linear, somewhat channelled, blunt, entire, sessile; 

 pedicels axillary, solitary, upwards thickened, longer than the 

 calyx; axils glabrous; segments of the calyx nearly cordate, 

 acuminate, with minute ear - like appendages at the base, 

 indistinctly ciliate at the margin; corolla outwards glabrous, 

 very wide, surpassing many times the length of the calyx; 

 upper lip bifid, lower one three-parted. 



In sandy-loamy desert plains at the junction of the 

 Darling and Murray. 



