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50 LXIV. GOODENOA^EiE. [Velleia, 



wings in some specimens soon disappearing, the 2 upper lobes separated al- 

 inost to the base and auriculate on tlie outer side below the wing. — DC. » 

 Prod. vii. 518. 



Queensland. Shoalvvater BaVj /?. Bromi ; Burdekin river, Dallachy (a dwarf stunted 

 state). 



11- V. spathulata, i2. Br. Frod, 580. Glabrous except the woolly 

 axils. Leaves radical, mostly oblong-spathulate and 2 to 3 in. long,^ but 

 sometimes shorter and obovate or longer and narrow^ entire or with minute 

 distant teeth. Scapes slender, ascending or spreading, rarely above 6 in. long, 

 sometimes very much branched and almost filiformj the bracts at the forks 

 small, oblong or linear. Plowers small, yellow. Sepals 3, scarcely 3 lint^s 

 long, oblong-lanceolate or the outer one almost ovate and slightly cordate. 

 Corolla 4 to 5 lines long, the 2 upper lobes separated low down aiul 

 winged on one side only. Seeds flat, with a thicki:=h border, not winged 

 or rarely with a very narrow wing. — DC. Prod. vii. 518 ; De Vr. Goodeii. 

 174. 



Queensland. Sboalwater and Keppel Bays, R. Brown; Port Arilinr ^ M' Giiiivrjtj/ ; 

 Wide Bay, BidiciU ; Kodcingliam Bay, Dallachy; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Brisbane river, 

 Moretou Bay, Leickkardt, F. Mueller. 



N. S. "Wales. Newcastle, R, Brown, 



The "Western Enthales j}UoseUay Be Vr. in PL Prciss. i. 414, referred here by Be Ir. 



Goodeu. 174, must surely be V. trinervis^ var. vitlosa. 



12. V. montana, Hook. /. in IIooTc. Land. Journ. \d. 265 ; TL Tasm. - 

 234. t. 68, B. More or less densely hirsute or nearly glabrous. Leaves 

 radical, petiolate, mostly oblong-spathulate but varying from obovate to 

 oblanceolatej obtuse, entire, rather thick, 1 to 2 iu.^ long. Scapes very short, 

 dichotomous, the wdiolc inflorescence not exceeding the leaves; bracts oppo- 

 site at the forks, small and narrow. Sepals 3, lanceolate or oblong, about 3 

 lines long, but unequal. Corolla of a dingy reddish-yellow (Gunn), 4 to 5 

 lines long, pubescent outside, the lobes all short, nearly equal, and equally t 

 ringed. Capsule small, nearly globular. Seeds flat, w^ith a slightly thick- 



ened border, not winged. — De Yr. Goodeu. 176. 



Victoria, Snowy plains on Snowy River at an elevation of 4000 to 5000 feet, Blount 

 "Wellington (Gipps' Laud) and Ilaidinger R^nge, F. Mueller, 



Tasmania. Mountain districts, forming large patches, on Hampshire Hills, Western 

 Mountains, etc., /. D. Hooker. 



With the habit, inflorescence, calyx, ovary and fruit of Yelleia, this differs from all ^^"^ 

 other species in the corolla, which is nearer to that of Scmvola or of the section Monoclni^ 

 of Goodenia* 



4. GOODENIA, Sm, 



(Picrophyta, F. MuelL ; Stekhovia, Tetraphylax and Aillya, Be Vr.) 



Calyx-tube adnate, sometimes exceedingly short, and usually shorter thai^ 

 the ovary; lobes 5, sometimes adnate at the base. Corolla-tube with the 

 adnate part blended with the calyx-tube or produced above it or with a 

 hollow protuberance on the under side between the calyx-lobes, sometimes 

 forming a spur at the base of the calyx, slit on the upper side down to the 

 adnate part, the limb oblitpie, the 2 upper lobes separated lower down, ai^*^ 



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