April, 1945 
The Queensland Naturalist 
89 
•ceterum glabra. Antherae similes cohaerentes, prope orifice 
hirsutae prope connectivum pilis paucis praeditae; loculi 
aequales aeque aristulati. Stylus glaber. Ovarium glabrum; 
-capsula (ex exemplo Smithiorum) calyce sublongior, elliptica, 
-a pice truncatula mucronata. 
A subshrub up to 30 cm. high, somewhat scabrous. 
'Stems hard and woody at the base, ascending and some- 
times rooting in the lower part or erect, rather freely 
branched with spreading branches, the younger parts with 
small hyaline hooked hairs, the older parts often glabrous. 
Leaves opposite or those of each pair in the upper part of 
the stems more or less separated, frequently wrinkled, 
rather pale green but becoming blackish on dried 
specimens, obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, the 
margins coarsely dentate-serrate with 2-6 rounded or 
unequally triangular teeth, both surfaces with a few 
minute hooked hairs or glabrescent, the midrib and the 
few nerves depressed on the upper surface and elevated 
on the lower surface; lower leaves shortly petiolate, 
obovate or oblong in outline, 8-13 mm. long, 4-7 mm. wide ; 
upper leaves gradually somewhat narrower. Inflorescence 
a loose terminal raceme ; bracts often alternate, similar to 
the upper leaves except that they are somewhat smaller 
and more acute; pedicels filiform, 3-6 mm. long, glabrous. 
Flowers blue with pale throat with yellow mark on lower 
part, variable in size. Calyx 6-8 mm. long, snbcampanu- 
late, glabrous or nearly so, about 3/5 as long as the 
corolla, 4-lobed to the middle ; lobes unequal, suboblong, 
obtuse in flower but becoming acute in fruit. Corolla about 
1.5-2 cm. long, sparsely puberulous outside, glabrous 
within : tube much exceeding the calyx, sub-cylindrical at 
base, dilated upward and there somewhat curved, 7-12 mm. 
long; upper lip slightly recurved, 6-8 mm. long; lower lip 
•spreading, 9-10 mm. long and about a quarter as long 
again as the upper lip; lobes obovate, obtuse, especially 
those of the upper lip slightly emarginate, the antero- 
median longer than the others and somewhat spathulate. 
Staminal filaments pilose on the ad n ate part, elsewhere 
glabrous. Anthers similar, coherent, brown, 2 mm. long, 
hirsute near the orifice and with a few hairs near the con- 
nective; cells equal, aristulate, the awns all equal, 0.25 
mm. long Ovary ovate, glabrous; style glabrous. Capsule 
somewhat longer than the calyx, elliptic, siibtruneate and 
mucronate. 
Between Echo Point and Main Border Track, on bank 
of track, ca.. 3,500 feet, December, 1942, T>. A. and L. S. 
