908 NOTES FKOM THE BOTANIC GARDENS, NO. IX., 



gt'ra, with which it has the narrow capsule in common, and which 

 shows also occasionally a tendency to a branched inflorescence, 

 but from which it is always distinguished )w the numerous 

 slender panicle-branches, like G. paniculata and gracilis, and by 

 the long stem-leaves. 



We give the description of both forms separately' : — 



G. DiMORPHA (normal form) — Blue Mountains. 



A perennial with a tufted stock and erect stems from 1 to 

 rarely above 2 feet high, glabrous or nearly so, except the flowers. 

 Leaves radical and rosulate, from oblong- to ovate-spathulate, 

 from under 1 to 2 inches long, entire or obscurely dentate; stem- 

 leaves few and small, becoming shorter and narrow er towards the 

 top, mostly supporting the branches. Stems few and slender, 

 with slender distant simple branches, long at the base of the 

 stem, shorter towards the top, each w ith a single terminal flower, 

 or with a cluster of mostly three flowers on stalks of unequal 

 length, or the panicle-branches are again divided. Flowers often 

 (not alwaj^s) Mdth a pair of short and slender bracteoles at the 

 base of the calyx (reduced stem-leaves). Calyx-lobes linear, 

 about 1 line long. Corolla yellow, sparingly hairy outside, 

 otherwise as in G. steUigera or rather smaller. Capsule linear- 

 oblong, about 5 lines long, the dissepiment reaching nearly to 

 the top. Seeds flat, with a small border, arranged in two rows 

 in each cell. 



GoODENiA DiMORPiiA, var. ANGUSTIFOLIA — National Park. 



A perennial with a tufted stock and erect stems about 1 to 

 1 J feet high. Leaves radical or scattered along the stems and 

 branches, sometimes nearly all in a rosette and sometimes, chieflj'on 

 the stem, scarcely reduced in size. The two forms seem to depend 

 entirely on the locality. Isolated growing specimens have mostly 

 rosulate leaves and fewer stem-leaves, but if they grow together 

 in dense masses, the radical leaves are few and the stem-leaves 

 numerous. Leaves linear, aV)out 1 to IJ inches long, entire, or 

 the radical ones more or less deepl}^ toothed and linear-lanceolate. 



