Roehelia.] 
LXXXIV. BORAGINE/E. 
1051 
1. It. IVEaccoya (after Prof. Fredk. McCoy), F. r. 31.; lieiith. FI. Austr. iv. 
408. A hispid annual with several procumbent or ascending stems, a few inches 
in length. Leaves linear, the radical ones lin. long or even more, those of the 
stem few and small. Flowers on very short pedicels, usually below the floral 
leaves or bracts, the upper ones forming an irregular one-sided leafy raceme. 
Calyx about 2 lines long, oblique, incurved, divided into from 7 to 9 rather unequal 
linear-segments. Corolla shorter than the calyx, with 4 to 6 very short obtuse 
lobes, without scales in the throat. Stamens usually four. Nuts enclosed in 
the hardened base of the calyx-segments . — Maccoya plurisepalo , F. v. M. Fragm. 
i. 127. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller. 
In the few flowers I opened I found 7 calyx-segments and only 4 stamens, the corolla-lobes 
sometimes 5, sometimes 6 ; F. v. Mueller has observed as many as 9 calyx-segments. The 
species is nearly allied to R. cancellata, Boiss., which has a similar multiplication of calyx- 
segments but with the normal number of 5 corolla-lobes and stamens. — Renth. 
12. MYOSOTIS, Linn. 
(From wus, a mouse, and ous, an ear ; appearance of leaves.) 
(Exarrhena, R. Br.) 
Calyx deeply divided into 5 segments or, in species not Australian, 5-toothed. 
Corolla with a cylindrical tube, with 5 small scales in the throat, the limb 
spreading, 5-lobed. Stamens inserted in the tube ; anthers included or exserted. 
Ovary 4-lobed ; style filiform, inserted between the lobes ; stigma small, usually 
capitate. Nuts 4, smooth and shining, erect, attached by a small basal area. 
Seeds without albumen ; radicle short.— Herbs usually hispid. Leaves entire. 
Flowers blue or white, in simple or forked one-sided spikes or racemes, without 
bracts. 
The genus is ehiefiy abundant in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, especially 
in the Old World, more rare in North America, tropical Asia, and in the extratropical regions 
of the southern hemisphere. 
1. IVI . australis (southern), R. Br. Prod. 495; Reuth. FI. Austr. iv. 405. 
An erect or diffuse hispid annual (or perennial ?), the stems usually branching 
from the base, sometimes slender and under 6in. high, sometimes long and weak, 
•extending to 1 or 2ft. Lower leaves on long petioles, from obovate-oblong to 
oblanceolate or linear-spathulate, the stem ones more sessile and smaller, the 
uppermost sometimes very small sessile and cordate-ovate. Flowers small, white 
or yellowish (or rarely blue ?), in scorpioid spikes at first dense but at length 
•often long and interrupted. Calyx-segments narrow-lanceolate, hispid with 
hooked hairs, f to 1^ line long. Corolla-tube rather longer than the calyx, the 
scales of the throat obtuse and notched, the lobes short, broad, obtuse or retuse, 
Anthers and style included in the tube or the tips slightly protruding. Nuts 
shorter than the calyx. — DC. Prod. x. 110; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 279; 31. 
staniinea, Lehm. PI. Preiss. i. 348. 
Hab.: Specimens received from near the border of N.S.W. seem to lie this plant, but too 
imperfect to determine. Baron Mueller records it from New England 
13. LITHOSPERMUM, Linn. 
(From the Greek, stone seed.) 
Sepals 5, linear. Corolla tubular funnel-shaped, throat naked or with 5 small 
scales ; lobes 5, imbricate in bud, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 5, included ; 
anthers oblong, obtuse, or apiculate. Ovary deeply 4-lobed ; style filiform or 
cylindric ; stigma usually 2-fid. Nuts 4, erect, ovoid, stony, smooth or rough ; 
