Goodenia.'] Lxiv. goodenoyie^, 79 



Panicle little branched, with few very small flowers.— Upper Victoila river, F. Mueller. 

 rerhaps a distinct species, but the specimens not perfect. 



64. G. gracilis, jB. Br. Prod. 575. A perennial, glabrous or with 

 niore or less of wool about the stock. Kadical leaves petiolate, linear or 

 hnear-lanceolate, varying from 1 to 5 or 6 in. long, usually entire. Flower- 

 ing stems always much longer than the radical leaves, aud sometimes above 

 1 ft., with very few, linear leaves. Panicle loose as in G. paniculata and 

 G. purpurascens. Flowers yellow, and fruit entirely of G. pajiiculata. Seeds 

 very numerous, smaU, flat, smooth, and shining.— 1)0. Prod. vii. 513. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, E. Brown ; Rockhampton and Keppel Bay, ThozeL 

 «. S. Wales- Aiton Plains, S. of Liverpool Plains, J. Cunningham : Murray and 

 Darling rivers, Ballachy. 



Victoria. Murray, Ovens, Broken, and King rivers, F. Mueller, 



^' ^* .l^'^ipj^osperma^ T. Mmll. Fragm. i. 116. Very closely allied 

 |o ^'gracilis, and perhaps a variety, more rigid aud veiy much branched, 1 

 |o la ft. high, with very few stem-leaves. Radical leaves linear or lanceo- 

 If^te, but thicker and more rigid than in G. gracilis, prominently veined, often 

 r*ither broader and occasionally toothed. Flowers smaller than in some speci- 

 mens of G, gracilis, but quite like those of other specimens, aud in other 

 respects quite the same, as well as the capsule and seeds. 



«- Australia. Victoria river. Start's Creek, and Macadam Range, F. Mueller. 



66. G. humilis, R, Br, Prod. 575. A small, tufted perennial, glabrous, 

 except the inflorescence, which is pubescent or rarely the leaves and base of 



Y\ ^^^^ ^^^ shghtly hirsute. Leaves radical, petiolate, linear-lanceolate or 

 obloug sometimes all under 1 in., sometimes several inches long, quite entire 

 jii <ul the specimens seen. Flower-stems or scapes almost leafless, panicu- 

 ^te, shorter than or scarcely exceeding the leaves, the primary branches 



^^cemose, the secondary cvmose, the flowers pedicellate above the small, 

 narrow bracts. Flowers yellow, and fruits of G. paniculata or the flowers 

 ^*»tlier smaller. Ovules quite as numerous as in that species, but the seeds 

 ^onietimes fewer and rather larger.— DC. Prod. vii. 513 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 

 Tn 1 T ^^' DeVr.Gooden. 131.t.23; G. gromin ifoUa, Uodk. I'm Hook. 

 ]32^' Journ. vi. 265; De Vr. Gooden. 133; G, nana, De Vr. Gooden. 



PortS°''i^; • -^^"^ I'tillip, R. Brown ; Melbourne, Adammi ; Glenelg river, Robertson ; 

 Tasn! ■' Wannon, Wilhemi. 



smania. Northern parts of the island in marshy soil, /. B. Hooker. 



wiu/' ?' ^*y*o»iana, F. Muell. Herb. A small, glabrous perennial, 

 thin f ^^^^^^y t^^fted stock. Eadical leaves numerous, linear, obtuse, eutu-e, 

 hio-h 1 ^ ""^^'" ^ ^^- to ''^^o^'e 2 in. lon<r. Stems slender, erect, 2 to 6 in. 

 almr f ^^^^ ^'^'^ept the bracts, divided into a loose 2- or 3-cliotomous or 

 fork. J"^!'^^Iate panicle of few flowers, with leaf-like linear bracts at the 

 abonf 1-^ *^^^s filiform, without bracteoles. Flowers small, yellow. Calyx 

 sljJ:, ;"!^« lo^g, the lobes as long as the tube. Corolla 3 to 4 bnes long, 

 ^inopi P o"tside, the 3 upper lobes separated low down and unequally 

 a'^a- Indusium glabious, ciliafe. Dissepiment of the ovary reaching to 



