SelUera.] 



LXIV. GOODENOVIE^. 83 



the fmit examined, smooth and shining, irregularly shaped.— Goodenia 

 exigua, F. Muell. 1. c. . = ^ f 



W". Australia. Mai-giu of Moir's Inlet, Maxwell. 



7. CATOSPERMA, Benth. 



Calyx-tube adnate ; lobes 5, free. Corolla-tube slit on the upper side fo 

 the ovary, the limb of 5 nearly equal lobes, at length digitately spreading, 

 the margins shortly winged. Stamens free. Ovary wholly inferior, 2.celled, 

 with 2 ovules iu each cell suspended from the top. Indusium cup-shnped, 

 enclosing the short stigma, minutely ciliate. " Drupe 10-ribbed, 4-see(led, 

 the cells imperfectly 2-locellate " '(F. i/«e/^.) .—Glabrous herb. Leaves 

 toothed. Flowers yellow, in axillary pedunculate cymes. 



• ^ ^f^^ '* limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, with the flowers of some 

 »pecies of Goodenia or of Sccevola, but differing remarkably from the whole Order in tlie 

 insertion of the ovules. ' 



I. C. Muelleri, Benth. in Hooh. Ic. Fl. 1. 1028. A glabrous perennial, 

 I he stems procumbent or ascending, 1 to 1^ ft. long. Leaves petiolate, 

 ovate or obovate, irregularly toothed, the larger ones above 1 in. long without 

 e petiole. Peduncles usually bearing 3 flowers on rather long pedicels, the 

 central one without bracteoles, the lateral ones with two minute bracteoles 

 below the middle. Calyx-tube about 1^ lines long; lobes shorter, linear- 

 anceolate. Corolla about \ in. long, glabrous outside, slightly pubescent 

 jpsKie. Style glabrous or nearly so. Fruit, according to F. Mueller, 3 to 4 



lines iQUg.— Scavola ooodenianpn. F. Miiell. Fraam. i. 121. 



J*f ««7 ^" TtT*^**' • ^'■^^•'"y ^a°l^s of Victoria river. Hooker's and Start's Creeks, F. 

 onkno^' specimens I have seen Lave the fruit as yet very young, and the ripe seeds are 



SC-5IVOLA 



ogonetes, Lmdl., Temminckia, Karaphusia, Crossotoma, Molkenboeria, and Xlerknsia, 



De Vr.) 



di^it"^ f "*^^^ adnate, limb usually very short, annular cxip-sliaped or of 5 

 ^Q^.j ^^S^enfs, sometimes obsolete. Corolla oblique, the tube slit open 



^vlioir'- T"^^'^ ^^ ^^^^^^ digitately expanding. Stamens free. Ovary 

 cell ^ ^ ^'^^*' or rarely the summit free, 2-celled with 1 erect ovule in each 



ovules. Stvle undivided; indusium cup- 



hisint ^^-^.^^^"S the tnuicate qr divaricately 2-lobed stigma. Fruit inde- 

 a [jjjj.,*' ^^*" ^ ^*^re or less succulent or thin and membranous exocarp, and 

 cell erT*^ 1 ^^ -^^"^ rarely thin and cmstaceous endocarp. Seeds 1 in each 

 ^arelvth ^ ^^"^^^^0^3. embrvo usually terete and as long as the albumen, or 

 leaves it^^*^^^^^"^ broader \han the radicle.— Herbs undershrubs or shrubs, 

 '^te in th ^^^^'^^^' "'^^0^'^*'^ solitary between 2 bracteoles, sessile or peduncu- 

 ^ouslv b^ ^^T?^ ^^ ^'^^ leaves or subtending bracts or the peduncles dichoto- 

 'he hair- ^'''^^/^^^d, with a flower iu each fork. Indumentum simple or stellate, 

 »iore ^ ]^ 9 ^'^^ corolla usually reversed, the tube of the corolla always 



^ ^ess villous inside, the lobes at their base sometimes fringed with 



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