74; Lxiv. GOODENOViE^. [Ooodenia. 



veloped enough to fix the affinities of this plant, it appears to be a very distinct species, 

 differing from G. lanata in the absence of bractcoles, from G. ct/cloptera in the ovary. 



52. G.cycloptera, K Br, in App. Start, Exped. 20. Annual or with 

 a perennial tufted or creeping rootstock, tomentose-pubescent or softly villous 

 and often glandular. Radical leaves on long petioles, obovate or* oblong, 

 coarsely toothed, 1 to 2 or even 3 in. long. Stems either very short and 

 erect or decumbent, or ascending and from 6 in, to 1 ft. long, with a feff 

 leaves usually crowded towards the end or scattered when the stems are rauch 

 lengthened, all smaller, narrower, and more entire than the radical ones and 

 nearly sessile. Pedmicles in the upper axils or terminal tufts, l-flowered, 

 without bractcoles or rarely wnth very minute ones. Calyx hirsute, the lobes 

 narrow. Corolla yellow, pubescent outside, 6 or 7 lines long, the tube sorac- 

 times forming a minute spur at the base of the calyx, the 2 upper lobes 

 deeply separated, unequally winged and auriculate. Dissepiment of the 

 ovary very short or almost rudimentary, with few ovules. Capsule orbicular 

 or shortly ovate. Seeds large, orbicular, flat, usually black with a paler 

 coloured rather thick marfrinal wino-. 



N. S.Wales. Darling river, Ballachy.Mrs. lord; theuce to the Lachlau, Burkiii^ 

 Victorian Expedition, 



S. Australia. Scrub to the N.E. of Lake Gairdner, Bahhage ; Spencer's Gulf, Var- 

 burton. I have not seen Sturt's specimens described by Brown, but his chaj-acter leaves 

 no doubt as to the identity. 



53.^ G. tenella, U, Br. Prod, 577. A small slender plant, appearing 

 sometimes annual but evidently stoloniferous, glabrous or sprinkled with a 

 few hairs and with a little woof in the axils of the leaves. Leaves radical or 

 rosulate, ovate oblong or oblanceolate, entire or obscurely crenate, i to ^ in- 

 long, besides the petiole. Peduncles filiform without bracteoles, l-flowercd, 

 and longer than the leaves or sometimes bearing a tuft or umbel of pedicels, 

 with a few leaves narrower than the radical ones. Flowers very small, yellow. 

 Calyx-lobes linear. Corolla hairy outside, about 3 lines long, the upper lobes 

 deeply separated and all broadly winged. Dissepiment of The ovary exceed- 

 ingly short ; ovules few. Capsule ovoid, about 2 lines long. Seeds fe"^, 

 large, flat, granular-tuberculate, witli a rather broad smooth border, but not 

 winged.— DC. Prod. vii. 515 : De Vr. Gooden. 150. 



W 



King George's Sound, Bauer, Brumniond, n. IS4. 



Var. major. Larger in every part, the leaves i to 1 in. long, and the flowers larger.— 

 Muddy bed of Don river. Maxwell; Kurri Dale, Serb, F. Mueller. 



Sc<Bvotaj)usilla,J)e Vr. in PL Pr. i. 412 or Goodenia pusllla,J)e\r. Gooden. 131, fn>^ 

 I'lantagenet district. Frelss, 7u 1470, which I have not seen, appears from the description 

 lo be the same as G. tenella, 



p 



54. G. elongata, Zahill. PI. Nov. Eoll. i. 52. t 75. A pereniiifi'. 

 sprinkled witli simple appressed or spreading hairs or rarely glabrous, tlie 

 rootstock tufted or slender and creeping. Radical leaves on long petioks, 

 obovate or oblong-spatlmlate, entire or obscurely sinuate-toothed. Stems 

 sometimes very short, but usually ascending or erect and weak, | to above 1 

 ft. long, with a few distant oblong or lanceolate nearly sesSile leaves. ^'^^ 

 duncles 1 -flowered, without bracteoles, long and slender, sometimes scape- 

 hke amongst the radical leaves, but mostly in the axils of the stem-leaves. 



