Goodenia.} LXiv. GOODENOViEiE. 



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Sect. III. Axa^hichilB..— Corolla with the 2 upper lobes separated much lower down 

 than the others. Otmles very numerous^ closely packed in more thaii 2 rows in each cell 

 of the ovary. Flowers smally in I eajless panicles or on radical scapes. 



Flowering stems | to 2 ft. high, several times longer thau the 

 radical leaves. 

 Leaves in the lower part of the stem from obovate to lanceolate, 



mostly toothed 62. G. paniculata. 



Leaves chiefly or entirely radical, linear or liuear-lanceolate, en- 

 tire. 

 Flowers purple . 63. G. piirpnrascens. 



Flowers yellow. 



Panicle loose and moderately branched. Leaves not con- ^ 



spicuously veined 64, G. gracilis. 



Panicle very much branched. Leaves rigid, conspicuously 



veined 65. G. Jamprosperma. 



Flowering stems shorter than or scarcely exceeding the linear or 



linear-lanceolate radical leaves . . ', 66. G. hmyiihs. 



Flowering stems 2 to 4 in. high, much exceeding the tufted or ro- 

 sulate membranous radical leaves. 



Leaves linear. Stock almost bulbous 67. (7. Layioniana. 



Leaves ovate, rosulate 68. G. bicolor. 



Dwarf creeping or stoloniferous plant. ' Leaves ovate, in rosulate 



tufts. Scapes or peduncles filiform, mostly l-flowered ... 60. G.pumiho. 



0. slolonifera, De Yr. Gooden. 135, from Yerreaux's collection, which I have not seen, 

 ^^ny possibly from his description be the same as G, tenella. 



G, lanceolaia and G. laiifoUa are garden names taken up by Steudel, but which have 

 never to my knowledge been described. 



Sect. I. Monochila, G. Bon. Corolla (usually yellow or wliite) with 

 the lobes all nearly equal and digitatcly spreading as iu Scavola. Ovules 

 either imbricate iu two rows in each cell or few and erect from the base ot 

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1. G. phylicoides, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 206. An erect branching 

 uudershmb or shrub of 1 to 2 ft., clothed with a short white woolly tomen- 

 tum. Leaves rather crowded, oblong-lanceolate or almost linear, obtuse, 

 entire, with revolute margins; narrowed at the base, i to 1 in. or rarely 1 3 

 111. loug, coriaceous and becoming glabrous and shining above, white under- 

 neath. Flowers white, sessile in the upper axils, forming a short compact 

 terminal leafy spike or head. Calyx-tube exceedingly short ; lobes linear, 

 softly ciliate, about 3 lines long. Corolla tomentose-pubescent outside, b to 

 7 lines long, the lobes all nearly equal and spreading. Ovary almost 1- celled, 

 the dissepiment almost rudimentary in the bottom of the cavity ; ovules 

 about 5 or 6, erect. Indusium very shortly ciliate. Trmt not seen.— 

 ^^mpiera? pohjrjalacea, De Vr. Gooden. 115. 



W. Australia. Drmmmvd, n. 356 ; Kalgau river, OldfieU : Plaiitagenet aud Stir- 

 ling Ranges and scrubby plains towards West Jlount Barren, Maxicell. 



.2. G. viscida, i?. Br. Prod. 578. A glabrous usually viscid perennial 

 With a thick almost woody stock and erect virgatc simple or sligbtly-braiiched 

 jeafy stems of \ to 1^ ft. Leaves sessile, from broadly lanceolate to almost 

 linear, rarely exceeding \ in. and often much smaller, entire or slight y 

 toothed. Flowers small, yellow, axillarv, sessile or nearly so, and scarcely 



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