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LXXXV. COXVOLVULACE.il. 
\ Breweria. 
3. B. pannosa (alluding to the clothing), R. Br. Prod. 488; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iv. 436. Stems from a perennial stock, prostrate or twining, the whole 
plant densely hirsute with soft ferruginous or silky hairs. Leaves on very 
short petioles, ovate and acute or the lower ones orbicular and obtuse, thick 
and soft, under lin. long. Flowers blue (R. Broun), solitary in the axils or 
rarely 2 or 3 together, on short pedicels, w T ith a pair of linear bracts about the 
middle. Sepals very hirsute like the rest of the plant, the outer ones broadly 
ovate, acuminate, 4 to 5 lines long, the inner ones much smaller, and the 
innermost one linear-lanceolate. Corolla above 4in. long, hairy outside. Ovary 
hirsute at the top with long hairs. Style divided to about the middle. — Chois, 
in DC. Prod. ix. 438. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
11. DICHONDRA, Forst. 
(Capsule 2-seeded.) 
Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-lobed. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, each with 
an almost basal style and 1 or 2 ovules ; stigmas capitate. Fruit of 1 or 2 
membranous capsules, each with 1 or rarely 2 seeds. — Prostrate creeping small 
herbs. Leaves entire. Flowers small, axillary. 
Besides the Australian species, which is widely spread over the warmer regions ot the New as 
well as the Old World, there is another closely allied to it from Central America. — Benth. 
1. S. repens (creeping), Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 451; Benth. hi. Austr. 
iv. 438. A slender creeping perennial, rooting at the nodes, usually hoary 
with a minute pubescence, often silky. Leaves on long petioles, orbicular or 
reniform, 4 to 8 lines or rarely lin. diameter. Flowers solitary, on peduncles 
shorter than the petioles. Sepals obovate, scarcely 1 line long. Corolla rather 
shorter than the calyx, (yellow, Benth.), white in all the Queensland specimens I 
have seen. Carpels also shorter than or rarely as long as the calyx, nearly 
globular. — R. Br. Prod. 491 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 278; Sm. Ic. Ined. t. 8. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller ; Rockhampton, O'Shanesy. 
The specits is generally diffused over the tropical regions of both the New and the Old World, 
especially near the sea, extending northward to the southern United States and to China, and 
southward to the Cape of Good Hope, extratropieal S. America and New Zealand.— Benth. 
12. CRESSA, Linn. 
(From Cressus , appertaining to the Isle of Crete, now Candia.) 
Corolla tubular-eampanulate ; lobes 5, contorted (or otherwise imbricate ?) 
in the bud, not plicate. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; styles 2, 
distinct from the base, each with a capitate stigma. Capsule usually 2-valved 
and 1-seeded by abortion. — A small branching perennial. Leaves entire. Flowers 
small, in terminal leafy spikes or heads. 
The genus is limited to a single species, common to the warmer regions of the New as well as 
the Old World. 
1. C. cretica (of Crete), Linn.: Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 440; Benth. hi. 
Austr. iv. 437. An erect or diffuse, much-branched perennial, sometimes almost 
woody at the base, rarely exceeding 6in., hoary silky-pubescent or villous all 
over. Leaves sessile or the lower ones shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, or in 
specimens not Australian linear, entire, rarely exceeding ^in. Flowers sessile in 
terminal leafy spikes or heads, rarely reduced to a single dower. Sepals broadly 
obovate, very obtuse, ciliate, about 2 lines long. Corolla very shortly exceeding 
