462 LXXIV. GOODENOVIEZ (HIERN). [Sceevola. 
furnished at the apex with a cup-shaped or bilabiate indusium which 
includes the stigma; ovules 1 or more together, erect or ascending. 
Fruit inferior, capsular or drupaceous. Seeds solitary or few or 
numerous; embryo straight, in the axis of rather fleshy uniform albu- 
men ; radicle next the hilum.—Shrubs undershrubs or herbs, with sap 
not milky. Leaves alternate or fasciculate, entire or toothed, exstipu- 
late. Flowers axillary or in axillary cymes or terminal panicles. 
A Natural Order of more than 200 species, mostly Australian. 
1, SCHVOLA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 539. 
Calyx-tube turbinate ovoid or globose ; limb usually short. Corolla- 
tube cleft at the back down to the base; lobes subequal, at length 
spreading like the fingers of a hand. Anthers free. Ovary 2-1- 
celled ; ovules erect, solitary or in 1-celled ovaries 1-2. Indusium 
cup-shaped ; stigma truncate or bifid. Fruit indehiscent, fleshy out- 
side ; endocarp hard. Seeds solitary ; embryo terete, nearly as long as 
the albumen.—Flowers solitary between 2 bracteoles, sessile or pedun- 
culate in the axils of the leaves or subtending bracts, or the peduncles 
dichotomously branched with a flower in each fork. 
A genus of about 60 species, mostly Australian. 
1. S. Lobelia, Linn. Syst. Veg., edit. xiii. (Murray) p. 178, 
excl. syn. Rumph. (1774). Shrubby, fleshy, glabrous in most parts; 
branchlets thick, marked below with the scar of fallen leaves, leafy 
above. Leaves obovate, crowded, rounded at the apex, narrowed to the 
sessile or broadly and shortly petiolate base, glabrous, 4-34 by 3-14 in. ; 
nerves inconspicuous. Axils of the leaves and bracts woolly or gla- 
brescent. Inflorescence shorter than equalling or rather exceeding the 
leaves ; bracteoles lanceolate, about equalling the ovary. Calyx-limb 
annular or shortly cup-shaped, truncate or obscurely toothed. Corolla 
glabrous outside, yellowish; tube nearly 4 in. long, densely woolly 
inside ; lobes oblong, about din. long. Indusiumciliate. Fruit about 
+ in. long.—Lobelia Plumierti, Linn. Sp. Pl. edit. i. p. 929 (1753) ; 8. 
Plumierii, Vahl Symb. ii. p- 36 (1791); non herb. Linn. ; Cerbera 
ovata, Sieber! in Hb. Seneg. n. 23 et ex Presl. Rel. Haenk. ii. p. 59 
(1825), non Cav.; S. senegalensis, Presl, l.c.; S. Thunbergii, Eckl. et 
Zeyh. ex Presl in E. Mey: Comment. Pl, Afr. Austr. Dreg. p. 292 
(1837); S. Sieber’, de Vriese, Goodenov. p. 33 (1854). 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Kohaut, Sieber! Guinea, a maritime shrub, Thon- 
ning! Grand Bassa, Th. Vogel! St. Thomas Island, growing on the beach, Mann ! 
Lower Guinea. Elephants Bay, Curror! Ambriz, Loanda and Mossamedes, 
Welwitsch ! Catombelam, Wawra, 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Luabo River, Kirk! éps 
Occurs also south of the tropic and in the Mascarene Islands, and has a wide distri- 
bution to India, the West Indies, the Galapago Islands. The extra-African synonymy 
is mostly omitted. 
