Sccevola.] LXIV. GOODENOVIEiE. 89 



c}'me of 3 or more flowers^ and not forming a terminal spike. Anthers in 

 the first 5 species tipped with a minnte tuft of hair, but not in the others. 

 rruit usually hard, the exocarp scarcely succulent. 



6. S, striata, R. Br. Prod. 586. A scabrous-pubescent or hispid per- 

 ennial, with diffuse, decumbent or ascending slightly-branched stems of ^ to 

 1^ ft., flowering sometimes the first year, and then more simple and erect. 

 Leaves obovate or oblong-spathulate, coai'sely toothed, the lower ones pctio- 

 late, the upper ones sessile but narrowed at the base, and all slightly stem- 

 clasping, in elongated specimens the upper leaves small and distant. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, longer than the leaves, i-flowered or the lower ones rarely 

 branching out into a several-flowered cyme. Bracteoles large, foliaceous, 

 ovate-oblong or lanceolate. Calyx-lobes linear, from scarcely longer than 

 the tube to 3 or 4 times that length. Corolla often above 1 in, long, the 

 Wings of the lobes broad and elegantly marked with transverse veins. An- 

 thers tipped with a tuft of short bristles. Ovar}^ 2 -celled. Indusium with 

 a dense tuft of hairs ou the back, the margin minutely ciliate. Fruit ovoid or 

 oblong, 3 to 3^ lines long, the drupe verrucose within the calyx-tube. 

 Seeds oblong, the embryo terete, nearly as long as the albumen. — DC. Prod, 

 vii. 511i S, camj)l€ra/ Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 70; DC. I.e. 511; S, ma- 

 cropoda, DC. 1, c. 509 ; S. Benthamia, De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 411 ; Molken- 

 ooeria striata, De Vr. Gooden. 42. 



y^^ Anstralia. King George's Souud and neighbonring districts, B. Brotm and 

 others, and thence to Yasse and Swan Rivers, Drummond, Isi Coll., 2nd Coll. n, 18, i^nl 

 ^«. n. 392, Preiss, n. 1508, 1520, Oldjleld, and others; Champion Bay, Old field ; east- 

 ^^ard to Lake Leven and Salt River, MaxwelL * 



^. niacrodonta, DC. Prod. vii. 511 ; De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 411, appears to me to be the 

 same plant. The wings of the corolla-lobes are said to be without veins, but that is not 

 the case either in A. Cunningham's specimens from King George's Sound or iu Preiss's 

 specimens described by De Vriese. 



7- S. phlebopetala, T, Mnell. Fragm. ii. 18. A scaLrous-pubescent 



^^ liispid herb, with diffuse, procumbent or elongated and flexuose stems, 

 closely allied to S. striata, with the same inflorescence, and transverse veins 

 to the_ wings of the corolla-lobes, but the leaves are narrower, the lower ones 

 sometunes obovate, the upper ones all narrow, oblong-lanceolate or linear, 

 and the bracteoles are always linear, sometimes very small, sometimes as long 

 ^s the calyx or longer. Flowers rather smaller than in S. striata, and appa- 

 ^^litly of a deeper blue, the wings also deeply coloured, 



W, Australia, Brnmmond, n. 189, 393, or 399 ; Murchison river, Oldjield and 

 <ilcotL Probably a variety of 5". striata. 



8. S, pilosa, BentL in Hueg. Enum. 69. Herbaceous, but with a hard, 



a! 



almost woody rootstock or sometimes suffruticose, erect, 1 to 3 ft. hig 

 ^ispid ^^ith spreading hairs. Lower leaves petiolate, obovate or oblon^, 

 oarsely toothed, 2 or 3 in. long, upper ones much smaller, sessile, and stem- 

 laspmg, from broadly oblong-euneate to lanceolate. Peduncles axillary, 

 ^Jiger than the leaves, 1-flowered. Bracteoles large, ovate or broadly lanceo- 

 ^te Calyx^ube oblong or obovoid, pubescent, the lobes either about half 

 '^ ^oi^g as the breadth of the tube or quite obsolete. Corolla like that of 



