Scctvola.] LXIV. GOODENOVIE.E, lil 



or very minutely ciliate. Fruit ovoid, slightly rugose, about 1^ lines long. 

 Merkmia llookeri^ De Yr. Gooden. 56. t, 12- 



H. S. ^Vales. Bogs, Blue Mountains, A, and R. Cunninf/ham. 



Victoria. ISrarsliy places, raoutli of Albert river (very luxuriant), Australian Alps at 

 an elevation of 4000 to 6000 ft., snowy plains at the sources of the Yarra, summit of Mouiit 

 Useful, Muuyong Mountains, etc., F. Mueller, 



Tasmania. Marshy places, Rocky Cape, Mount Wellington, Hampshire Hills, etc., 

 /. 2). Hooker, 



12. S. parvifolia, F, MuelL Ilerh. An erect, much branched, villous 

 herb or uuderslirub, the specimens all under 1 ft. high. Leaves lanceolate 

 or oblong-linear, obtuse, the longest under \ in., and mostly reduced to 

 small bracts. Flowers solitary on rigid, axillary peduncles of \ in. or more. 

 Bracteoles very small. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, shorter than the tube. Corolla 

 about \ in. long, hairy outside ; wings of the lobes narrow. Anthers with a 

 small, glabrous point. Ovary 2-celled. Style hairy ] indusiura nearly gla- 

 brous, ciliate. 



N. Australia. Hooker's Creek, F. Mueller, 



^ 13. S. restiacea, Benth. Glabrous or nearly so. Stems elongated, 

 rigid, terete, striate, rush-like, but branching. Leaves all reduced to minute, 

 distant, acute scales. Flowers solitary and sessile at the nodes, with 

 minute, scale-like bracts at their base. Calyx-lobes linear, rigid, as long as 



the tube. Corolla 6 to 7 lines long, bearing rigid, appressed hairs outside, 

 the lobes all equally winged and apparently nearly equal. Ovary 2-celled. 

 Indusium not seen. Fruit oblong, about 2 lines long, rugose and hispid 

 with short, incurved hairs. 



W. Australia, Brnmmond, Wi Coll. «. 169. I have seen several specimens, but with 

 pmy very few scattered fruits, and on one in the Hookerian herharium are two much- 

 injured flowers. 



14. S, depauperata, R, Br. App, Start's Exped, 20. A glabrous herb 



or undershrub, probably tall, with long, spreading, rigid branches. Lower 

 leaves unknown, upper ones reduced to small, distant, linear, recurved, rigid 

 bracts. Flowers solitary or few, in in'egular cymes, on long, rigid, axillary, 

 divaiicate peduncles (ultimate branches of R. Br,), and pedicellate above the 

 sroall bracteoles. Calyx-limb carapanulate, 5-lobed, at least as long as tlie 

 adnate tube. Corolla about f in. long, pubescent outside, the tube very 

 villous inside, the wings of the lobes ciliate. Ovary 2-celled. Style nearly 

 glabrous, except a dense tuft of hairs on the back of the nidusnira at its 

 base, the margin of the indusium ciliate. Fruit Mvknovfn.—Merkuua? de- 

 pauptrata, De Vr. Gooden. 74 ; Scavola patens, F. Muell. Fragm. ui. 33. 



S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, Wheeler (a single specimen in Herb. Mueller) ; salt 

 ground m lat. 26°, D. SiurL 1 have not seen this specimen, but Brown s description leaves 

 no doubt as to its identity. 



IS- S. tortuosa, Benth. A small perennial, mth rigid, tortuous, erect 

 stems of 3 or 4 in. Radical leaves petiolate, oblong or linear, entire or rarely 



Bunutely 



developed 



