■86 LXiv, GOODENoviE^. [Scatok 



(The dense tuft of hairs at the hack of the indusiuin occurs also in some species of the 

 section Fogonaidhera^ and in the first two species of the series Mouos^erm(B?j 



Series IV. IKEonospermse. — Ovary l-celled, 2-ovuIate, Fruit usaaUy l-seeded. 



Flowers in terminal interrupted leafy spikes. 



Indusium with a dense tuft of long hairs at the hase on the hack 

 as in the Fogogyne(e, 



Leaves stem-clasping and auriculate 40. -S. microphi/Ua- 



Leaves contracted at the hase or petiolate 41. ^. cuneiforruis. 



Indusium glabrous or shortly hairy on the back. 



Leaves obovate or ohloug, toothed 42. S, microcar^a. 



Leaves linear, revolute, entire • . 43. S. linearis. 



riowers in short dense leafy spikes or clusters, lateral or on short 



axillary brauchlets. Leaves entire. 



Glabrous. Leaves linear or lanceolate 44. 5. OldjieldiL 



More or less hairy. Leaves linear or lanceolate ♦ . * . 45. S, paludosa. 

 Closely silky-tomentose or villous. Leaves elliptical, acute . 46. S. sericophylla, 

 Densely tomentose or villous. Leaves oblong or linear, ob- 

 tuse, thick and soft * . , . . 47. 8, canescens. 



Leaves narrow-linear, nearly glabrous. 



Axils very woolly-white 48. 5. humificsa. 



Axils not woolly. . . , 43. 5. linearis. 



Series V. Parviflorse.— Omry \-ceUed, 1- or 2-ovulate, the upper portion fi^^- 

 Style covered with short purple glandular hairs. Leaves very narrow. Flowers small ^^'^ 

 numerous in terminal spikes. 



Leaves short, fincj clustered and heath-like. Bracts nearly as long 

 as the flowers. Corolla-tube nearly as long as the lobes. Ovules 

 solitary ; 49. S.JascicuMa, 



Leaves lon^, crowded. Bracts very short. Corolla-tube much 



shorter than the lobes. Ovules 2 . .....*.... 50. S, stenophyll^- 



& lyratifolia, De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 405 ; Merkusia lyratifolia, De Vr. Gooden. ^0, 

 from the cataracts of Swan River, Preiss, n. 1485, which I have not seen, is probably, ffO 

 the description given, not a Sccevola. 



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Si:cT. I. Sarcocarp^a, G. Don, — Shrubs, Leaves usually large 



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woolly axils. Flowers in lateral or axillary, dichotoinous cymes. Exocarp 

 usually very succulent. Species mostly maritime or insular. 



1. S. Koenigii, Vahl, Symh. iii. 36. An erect sLrub, with a thje^. 



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almost succulefit stem, the branches, leaves, and inflorescence either su*.| 



pubescent or licarly glabrous, but always with a tuft of long, silky or woo , 

 hairs in the axils. Leaves obovate-oblong, 3 to 5 in. long, rounded and \^ ^ 

 obtuse at the top, entire or rarely broadly crenate, narrowed at the base iw^ ^ 

 a very short petiole. Cymes axillary, very much shorter than the ^^^''^Z ! 

 Bracts small. Calyx-lobes oblong-liiiear, very variable in length, but usua ._^ . 

 as long as or longer than the tube. Corolla about f in. long, more orie^= 

 pubescent outside, the wings of the lobes narrow. Ovary 2-celled. 1^^"? 

 ovoid or nearly globular, the endocarp bony, near 4 lines long, the exocarp 

 succulent.— E. Br. Prod. 583; DC. Prod. vii. 505; Hook, and 1^lio^.!\\ 

 Jouru. Linn. Soc. ii. 8; Bot. Mag. t. 2732; S. Taccada, Koxb. ; '^^f \ 

 Illustr. t. 137; S. sericea, Forst. ; Br. Prod. 583; DO. Prod, ^^i , ^ V 

 S. Lobelia, J)q Vn in Kruidk. Arch. ii. 20 and Gooden. 20; Bentb. {^ 

 Hongk. 198; -S". macrocalyz, De Vr. Gooden. 26. t. 3 ; S. cMorantha, De 



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