Goodenia.] Lxiv. goodenovie^. 59 



spike, the upper ones usually solitary. Bracteoles small. Ctilyx-lobes linear 

 or subulate. Corolla less villous outside thau In G. stelUgera, rarely \ in. 

 long, the upper lobes separate low down and unequally winged. Diss( piment 

 of the ovary reaching high up; ovules in 2 rows in each cell. ludiisium 

 ciliate. Capsule ovoid, about 3 to 2^ lines lon^. Seeds flat, with a thickish 



border.— E. Br. Prod. 575 ; DC. Prod. vii. 513 ; De Vr. Gooden. 123. 



Queensland. Dawson river, F. Mueller i near Brisbane, Leichhardt, 



If. S. VCTales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, J?. Brown, Sieber, «. 230, Fi, 



Mixt.n. 619, and others; Hastings and Clarence rivers and Mount Mitchell, Beckler ; 



New England, C. Stuart. 



^ G, spathulatay De Vr. Gooden. 123, from Botany Bay, Hitegel, must, from the charncter 

 given, be the same species. 



11. G, stelligera, R. Br. Frod, 575. A perennial, with a tufted 



stock and erect, almost leafless stems of 1 to 1^ ft., glabrous or the inflores- 

 cence pubescent. Radical leaves linear or slightly linear-cuneate, obtuse, 

 rather thick, entire, sometimes 5 or 6 in. long but usually half that size; 

 stem-leaves very few and much shorter, floral ones reduced to linear bracts. 

 Flowers yellow, sessile or nearly so, in distant clusters of 3 or 3, the upper 

 ones solitary, in a long, interrupted spike. Calyx-lobes linear or linear- 

 lanceolate. Corolla densely villous outside, with a glandular pubescence 

 concealed under the longer hairs, 7 to 8 lines long, the upper lobes separated 

 low down, and unequally winged. Dissepiment of the ovary reaching high 

 ^^P ; ovules in 2 rows in each cell. Indusium ciliate. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 3 to 4 lines long. Seeds flat, with a thickish border.— DC. Prod. vii. 513; 

 De Vr. Gooden. 124; S. armericefoUa, Sieb. ; DC. Prod, vii, 513 ] De Vr. 

 Gooden. 129, as to the eastern plant; G. lougifoUa, De Vr. Gooden. 127. 



Queensland, Moreton Island, M'OiUivray, F. MiieUer, Some of the more luxuriant 

 specimens proliferous-branched, with tufts of leaves and a secondary flowering stem. 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieher. ji. 229^ and 

 others; northward to Hastings r i\ cr, BecMer ; near Durval, Leichhardt ; and southward 

 to Mount Imlay, F, Mueller, 



T>e Vriese quotes Sieher's specimens hoth for G. steUigera, Goodcuov. p. 124, and for G, 



^^rmeriafolla, p. 129, and mixes up with the latter Preiss's n. 2032, which is D las pans ft II- 

 foha, ■*• 



r 



Series 2. Bracteolat.e. Peduncles axillary or radical or the npper 

 ones very shortly racemose, bracteolate, 1-flowered or when several-flowered 

 the bracteoles at the base of the pedicels. Flowers yellow or white. 



12. G. ovata, Sm. in Trans, Linn. Soc. ii. 317. An erect, glabrous, 

 often somewhat viscid shrub or undershmb of 2 to 4 ft. Leaves petiolate, 

 Ifom ovate to broadly lanceolate or the lower ones sometimes almost orbicu- 

 lar-cordate, denticulate, 1 to 2 in, long. Peduncles axillary, often 2 together 

 pr forked near the base, slender and often seYeral-flowered,^but rarely exceed- 

 ^H the leaves. Bracteoles veiy small, at a distance from the flower. Calyx- 

 l^ibe linear, lobes subulate. Corolla yellow, glabrous outside, about \ in. 

 Innrr the Upper lobes deeply separate. ' Dissepiment reaching high up in the 



on<^ 



^^ary. Indusium strongly ciliate. Capsule naiTow, 4 to 6 lines lou,,^ 



^^l^Jitly tapering at the base. Seeds flat, almost in a single row in each cell. 



Cav. Ic. vi. t. 506 ; Vent. Jard. Cels. t. 3 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 68 ; E. Br. 



