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somewhat confluent ; floral leaves small , from rhomboid-cuneate to 

 lanceolar, with but few incisions or indentations or completely entire; 

 stalklets elongated, very thin, corymbously or somewhat racemosely 

 approximated, unprovided with bracteoles ; flowers quite small ; lobes 

 of the calyx comparatively broadish, about as long as the tube or 

 longei-, the latter at last considerably extending beyond the Insertion 

 of the lobes; coroUa minute, almost or quite glabrous, downward dark- 

 streaked, all its lobes expanding on both sides into yellowish or soon 

 whiteish or purplish membranes ; style very short; stigma-cover dorsally 

 invested with very minute hairlets ; fruit globular-ovate , nearly uni- 

 locular, hardly exceeded by the calyx-lobes, few seeded; dissepiment 

 narrow crescent-shaped ; seeds rather large, collateral, quite flat, when 

 ripe blackish, surrounded by a pale broadish membrane. Generally 

 on Sandy or somewhat saline ground. 



Yorke's Peninsula, 0. Tepp er; near Flinders-Range, F. v. M. ; near 

 the Broughton River, Miss L. Wehl; near Mount Parry. Prof. Täte; 

 Richardson's Creek, Dr. Cur die; Wimmera, D. Sullivan; Lake 

 Coorong, C. Walter; Looma-Rapids, Miss Campbell; Lake Alba- 

 cutya, C h. Fr euch; Murray-River, Mrs. Holding; Edwards-River, 



F. V. M. ; Murrumbidgee , Dr. Lucas; Darling-River , Brueckner; 

 Lachlau- River, F. v. M. ; Tarella, W. Baeuerlen. 



The plant is of bitter taste and produces sometimes threadlike 

 oifshoots ; the stigma-cover is comparatively broad and slightly con- 

 tracted in the middle, so as to indicate some approach to that of 

 Calogyne, which genus indeed might be considered a section of Goodenia. 

 The appendages on the upper corolla-lobes for the protection of the 

 stigma-cover are present. G. pusilliflora is generally not so large as 



G. pinnatifida, of more depressed and probably always annual gx-owth, 

 its vestiture is less dense and more spreading, the floral leaves are 

 proportionately broader, the flower-stalklets more dispersed, the flowers 

 always very much smaller, but the calyx-lobes broader; the corolla is 

 never so brightly yellow , the membranous expansions are on both 

 sides of all corolla-lobes developed; the dissepiment is not reaching 

 far up into the cavity of the fruit ; the seeds are fewer in number and 

 not of much less length and breadth than the pericarp, Individual 

 plants of G. pinnatifida, which might show a close approach to G. 

 pusilliflora, may have possibly arisen through hybridism, both growing 

 occasionally intermixedly. 



From G. coronopifolia the species now described is separated by its 

 laxer habit, more developed vestiture, broader leaves with less distant 

 and not so nai-row lobes, the floral leaves particularly being never so 

 elongated-linear , by which means the aspect of the whole becomes 

 very diff'erent, but the flowers and fruits of both species are very 

 similar, though the stigma-cover of G. coronopifolia is not at all 

 bilobed ; the seeds of the latter plant are not yet available for compa- 

 rison in our collections here. The relationship of G. O'Donelli, which 

 species has recently been brought by Mr. Nynlasy also from the 

 sources of the Victoria-River, is more distant. 



The writer of these remarks avails himself of this opportunity to 

 draw attention to another Victorian Goodenia, but concerning which 

 further field - observations should be instituted. It is treated by 

 B e n t h a m in the Flora Australiensis as a variety of G. glauca , of 

 which indeed it may only be a form ; it diflers however from the typical 

 State of that species in more developed vestiture , in dark-green and 

 also partly indented leaves, more crowded near the root, the upper 

 generally quite narrow, in usually smaller flowers in bright yellow 

 dilatations of the corolla-lobes, in almost glabi'ous style, in more 

 comjjressed fruit with thinner pericarp and in the nucleus of the seeds 

 being not so perceptibly pointed at the base; — from G. pinnatifida it 

 diverges in often lobeless basal leaves, in the frequent presence of one 

 or two stem-leaves below the flowers, in the corolla never glabrous 

 outside nor its upper lobes unequally dilated, in nearly or quite glabrous 



