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LXXXVII. 
SCROPHULARLXE.F. 
[Mini ulus. 
Steins ascending or erect, not much branched except at the base. Plant 
glabrous. 
Annual (?). very slender and weak, with small linear lanceolate distant 
leaves 1. M. Uvedalue. 
Perennial. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, obtuse ... 2. M. pracili s. 
Stems prostrate or creeping, much branched. 
Plant glabrous Leaves rather thick, ovate or oblong 3. it/, repens. 
Plant more or less pubescent. Leaves very small, narrow-oblong. 
Corolla-tube long 4. 31. prostratus. 
1. Uvedaliae (old generic name), Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 369, and FI. 
Austr. iv. 482. Apparently annual and quite glabrous, the stems very slender 
and weak, slightly branched, under 1ft. long. Radical leaves rosulate, ovate, 
but very soon disappearing ; stem-leaves small and distant, linear-lanceolate, 
acute or scarcely obtuse, entire, stem-clasping, rarely exceeding Jin. Pedicels 
in the upper axils slender, 1 to 2in. long or more. Calyx 2 to 2J lines long, 
the teeth very small. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx, pale-blue with a 
yellow throat f Soland. MAS. . Capsule oblong, shorter than the calyx, the 
valves readily splitting. — I redalia linearis, R. Br. Prod. 440. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Xolander, A. Cunninpham : Broadsound and Shoalwater 
Bay, R Brown. 
2. 3VI. gracilis (slender), B. B ■. Prod. 439; Be nth. FI. Austr. iv. 4<s2* 
Quite glabrous. Stems from a perennial somewhat creeping rhizome, erect, 
usually about Gin. and rarely in the Australian specimens nearly 1ft. high, not 
much branched except at the base. Leaves linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
obtuse, entire, in some specimens attaining lin., but in others all under Jin. 
long. Pedicels sometimes scarcely longer than the leaves, but often attaining 
1 to 2in. Calyx about 2J lines long, with short acute teeth. Corolla violet 
purple or blue, the tube shortly exceeding the calyx or rarely half as long again, 
the lobes very broad, those of the lower lip refuse, all minutely ciliolate. Capsule 
enclosed in the calyx, oblong, the valves readily splitting. — Benth. in DC. Prod, 
x. 369 • M. pus Ulus, Benth. l.c. 
Hab: Broadsound. R. Brown; Dawson River, F. r. Mueller; Rockhampton, O' Shanes p ; 
Curriwillinghi, Barton : Warwick, Jleckl, ■ : Stanthorpe and many other localities both north 
and south. 
The species is also widely spread over hilly regions in Asia and Africa, but there represented 
chiefly by a luxuriant variety larger in all its parts, which I had originally published under the 
name of .1/. strictus, and from which the description of .1/. pracilis in the '• Prodromus” is 
chiefly taken. The common form in Australia is the smaller one which I had considered as a 
distinct species under the name of M. pusillns, but some of tbe luxuriant Queensland specimens 
come very near to the Asiatic ones. — Benth . 
3. IVE. repens (creeping), R. Br. Prod. 439 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 482. 
A small glabrous prostrate perennial, creeping and rooting at tbe joints. 
Leaves sessile or scarcely petiolate, sometimes stem -clasping, from broadly ovate 
to oblong, obtuse, rather thick, often all under 2 lines long and rarely exceeding 
3 lines. Flowers few, the pedicel often shorter than the leaves at the time of 
flowering, but lengthening considerably afterwards. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, 
truncate, with small distant teeth. Corolla blue often yellow in the centre, the 
tube not 3 lines long, dilated upwards, the lobes all broad and as long as the 
tube, the upper ones not much shorter than the lower. Capsule nearly globular, 
about 2 lines diameter, tbe valves readily splitting. — Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 
373 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 290 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5423. 
Hab.: Southern localities inland. 
The species is also in New Zealand. The habit and foliage is often that of smaller specimens 
of Herpestis Monnieria, but the calyx and corolla are very different. — Benth. 
4. rvi. prostratus (prostrate), Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 373, and FI. Austr. 
iv. 483. A small diffuse or prostrate much-branched perennial, more slender 
than M. repens, and not so frequently rooting at the joints, the whole plant rarely 
