83 LXiv. GOODENOVIE.E. [SelJiera. 



(ligltately spreading, the margins slightly iuflcxed or Avinged. Stamens free. 

 Ovary inferior, more or less 2-ceIled, with several erect ovules. ' Style uiicH- 

 vided. Indusium cup-shaped, enclosing the short truncate stigma, the mar- 

 gin not at all or very minutely ciliate. Fruit more or less succulent, iiide- 

 hiscent. Seeds compressed or irregularly shaped. Embryo about half as 

 long as the albumen. — Small or creeping perennials. Leaves entire. Flowers 

 axillary, sessile or pedunculate. 



Of the two species, both Australian, one is endemic, the other extends to New Zealand 

 and extratropical South America. The genus has been redaced by Brown and De Candolle 

 to Goodenia, the flowers being; nearly those of the section Monocliila, but the iiidehisc^it 

 fruit accompanied by a different habit has induced me to follow J. D. Hooker in restonng" 

 as originally established by Cavanilles. 



Stems creeping. Flowers pedicellate. Seeds rather numerous, flat ..1.5. radical' 

 Stems densely branched in tufts of 1 to IJ in. Flowers sessile. Seeds 



few, irregularly shaped . . ' 2, S. exlgufi' 



1. S, radicansy Cav. Ic. v. 49. t. 474. A glabrous prostrate or creep- 

 ing perennial, extending sometimes to several feet. Leaves clustered at the 

 nodes or sometimes solitary, linear oblong spatliulate or rarely ovate, obtuse, 

 -entire, thick, narrowed into a long petiole, from 1 to 2 in. long or wlien ven' 

 luxuriant twice that size. Peduncles 1-flowered, axillary, shorter than tne 

 leaves. Bracteoles small, at a distance from the flower unless the pedicel is 

 very short. Calyx-lobes divided to the ovary, lanceolate or linear. CoroUj 

 3 to 4 lines long, glabrous outside, the lobes not winged. Ovary 2-cellea 

 nearly to the top, with numerous ovules in 2 rows in each cell. Fruit ovo'j 

 ,or oblong, about 2 or rarely 3 lines long. Seeds compressed, with a distinf 

 margin, and sometimes irregularly wino:ed.— Hook. f. FL Tasm. i. 331 ; if 

 Tr. Gooden. 163 ; Goodenia radlcans, Pers. Syn. i. 195 ; DC. Prod. vii. SlJ 

 G. litforalls, E, Br. in Flind. Voy. ii. 561 ; G, repens, LabilL PI. Nov. Ho"- 



i 53. t. 76 ; K Br. Prod. 579 ; DC. Prod. vii. 51 6 ; SelUera repens, De \r. 

 Gooden. 162; S. herpystica, Schleclit. Linneea, xx. 598 : De Vr. Gooden. 

 164. 



Victoria. 



Common on the Yarra river, F, Mueller and others ; Darebin ^""^^^'jj 

 Mueller; Glenelg river, Robertson; Little River, Fullagar ; Wimmera, Dallachy 0"' 

 •only). ,^ 



Tasmania. King's Island and Port Dalrymple, E, Brow7i. Common in ^^^^ ' 

 places near the sea, /. D. Hooker. 



I. Australia. Port Lincoln, R. Brown ; Gawler river, Holdfast Eay, F. Mueller* 



The species is also in Xew Zealand and in extratropical South America. 



exigna, T. MnelL Fragm. iii. 142. A dwarf, procumbent, ve^ 



iniicli-branched glabrous perennial, formincr dense tufts of 1 to \\ in- d'^'^j 



le. 

 lobed, rather longer than the tube. CoroUa gilabrous outside, 3 lines long f 



ter, or the stock proliferous-branched, each branch terminating in a ^ip ^ 

 tuft. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, spathulate or almost linear, thick, entire, 

 to IJ lines long, on petioles of 2 to 4 lines. Flowers axillary, sessii_' 

 Bracteoles small, linear. Calyx-tube turbinate, limb campanulate, deeply 



rather more, the lobes nearly equal and digitately spreading, all ^i"? ; 

 Ovary with 3 or 4 erect ovules. Indusium not ciliate. Fruit nearly gW°.^ 

 lar, 1 to l\ lines diameter, indehisceut or ii-regularlv bursting. Seeds i 



