Sccevoh,] LXIV. GOODEKOVIE^. ,87 



1-c. 27; S. Lamhrtianay De Vr. 1. c. 28; S. moutana^ Labill. Scrl. Austr. 

 Caled. 41. t. 42. 



N. Australia. N. coast, A. Cunningham ; mouth of Victoria river, F. MueUcr. 



Queensland, Along the tropical seacoast ; Palm Island, Banhs and Solander ; En- 

 deavour Strait, Low Island, and Northumberland Islands (the latter with smaller leaves cre- 

 nateat the end), R. Brown; Escape Cliffs, Hulls; Fort Deaison, Fllzalan ; Edgecombe 

 Bay, Ddlachy, 



A conimou seacoast plant in the warmer parts of the Old World, and chiefly withiu the 

 tropics, occurring occasionally also iu the \Vest Indies j but there the most common species 

 w 5. Plumieri, distinguished by the truncate, annular, calyx-limb without the lobes of 

 S'Ko^niffii, and usually by thicker leaves. This S. Piumien occurs also on the coasts of 

 Africa, Ceylon, and other parts of Asia, but has not yet been found in Australia. De Vricse 

 reunites it with S, Kodnigii, but that is owing to his 'having mistaken Vahl's plaut. The dis- 

 tmctiou between the two species was well pointed out by Gsertuer and by Vahl, and has been 

 inaintained by all subsequent botanists, however much they have multiplied species. Never- 

 theless, the specimens determined by De Vriese as S. Piumien belong to S. KoBnigii, and 

 he has distributed the true S, Plamleri (which he could not have mistaken if he had looked 



^ Plumier's figure) in his S. Macrcei^ S. senegalends, S. Sieheri, S. Tkunbergii, aud 

 o. uvifera. 



Iu the ' Flora Honkougeusis ' I had followed De Yriese iu calling the species S. Lobelia, 



linn., but I canuot find that Linnaeus ever gave it such a name in any published work. He 



published the genus in his 'Mantissa,' p. 145, without any specific name, having previously 



aesignated Plumier's and Jacquiu's plant as Lobelia Plumierii, Scavola Lobelia first occurs 



in Gmel. Syst. Nat. Veg. 361, but that refers especially to S, Plmnieri, as evidenced by the 



authority of Plumier's and Jacquln's figures quoted. He might, indeed, if he had known of 



It; have included also the S, Koeyiigii, for he misquotes Ga^rtuer's figure under a wrong 



name, but he never gave the name of S. Lobelia exclusively or specially to the latter 

 species. 



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Sect. II. Ckossotoma, G. i)o«.— Shrubs. Flowers solitary, on short, 

 Slender, axillary peduncles. Fniit sometimes with as succulent aa exocarp 

 as in Sarcocarjjcea, in other species nearly dry. 



2. S. spinescens, R. Br. Prod. 5SQ. A rigid, scrubby shrub of 

 several feet, glabrous or hoary-tomentose, the short branchlets often, but not 

 always converted into short, 'simple or bnmched spines. Leaves often clus- 

 tered on short branchlets or nodes, obovate spathulate oblong or linear, 

 obtuse, entire, thick, under | in. when broad, sometimes near 1 in. long 

 tthen narrow. Plowers few or solitary in the clusters of leaves, the peduncles 

 Slender, but rarely as long as the leaves. Bracteoles small, narrow-linear. 

 Ulyx-limij exceedingly short, annular, truncate. Corolla white, 6 to 8 lines 

 ^^g. tomentose or glabrous outside. ludusium ciliate. Ovary 2-celled. 

 ^rupe ovoid, rather large, with a bony endocarp, and thick, succulent raeso- 

 ^arp. Seeds Avith a large embryo, and ven^ little albumen.— DC. Prod. vu. 

 g/' 5. oltoides and S. lydoides, DC. I.e.'; Pogonetes, Liudl. Introd. Nat. 

 yst. ed, 2. 44.3 ; Crossotoma spinescens, C. oleoides, and C. lycioiJes, De \v. 

 Wooden. 36 to 38. 



• 'istralia. Dampier'a Archipelatro, A. Cunningham. 

 rwe^^V^^ ^^' BoK-Mfl« ; Bokhara Creek, Leickhardt ; between Thomson aad Fhuders 



^^d; ou the Maranaa, Mitchell ; Armadillo, W. Barton, 



aud Da r ^^^^^^' N. extremity of Peel's Kaiige, A. Cunningha 

 ■^niQg nvei-s, Vicforian and other Expeditions. 



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stralia. Islands of Kuyt's Archipelago and Petrel Bay (the very spinescent 



