Scavola.] LXIV. GOODENOVlE.i:/ 93 



brous or hirsute with long, spreading hairs. Lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, entire or with a few coarse teeth, usually contracted at the base, but 

 dmost sessile, 1 to 2 in. long, upper ones sessile, frona ovate to lanceolate, 

 entire, rounded or cordate at the base, under 1 in. long, the floral ones or 

 bracts almost as long as the flowers. Flowers almost sessile, distant, form- 

 ing an interrupted, leafy spike, the lower ones or nearly all distant. Brac- 

 teoles lanceolate, often as long as the bracts. Calyx-limb campanulate, lobes 

 lanceolate. Corolla glabrous outside, about 7 lines long or rather more, 

 with long, subulate teeth or soft bristles descending in the thmai from the 

 i^argins of the lobes. Stvle glabrous or hairy ; indusium ciliate. Ovary 2- 

 celled.— DC. Prod. vii. 511 ; MerJciisia angulatay De Vr. Gooden. 6y. 



N. Australia. South GoulLuru Island, A. Cu7i}iing7iam ; islands of the Gulf of Car- 

 peutaria, R. Brown. 



19. S. nitida, R. Br. Prod. 5S-i. An erect undershrub or shrub, attain- 

 ing 3 or 4 ft., quite glabrous, and sometimes viscid. Leaves mostly petio- 

 late, oval-elliptical or lanceolate, 2 to 3 in. long, more or less toothed, the 

 upper ones smaller and narrower, the floral ones all but the lowest reduced 

 to lanceolate or linear, entire bracts, rarely exceeding 6 lines. Flowers 

 s^^ssile, in rather dense spikes of 2 to 6 in. ^Bracteoles small, narrow-linear. 

 Calyx-limb a very short, truncate ring. Corolla (white? or pale blue?) 6 to 

 8 lines long, glabrous outsiJe, with rather numerous, long teeth or soft 

 bristles, tipped with minute tufts, descending in the throat from the margms 

 of the lobes. Ovary 2-celled. Stvle slightly hairy. Indusium ciliate, 

 Seeds ovoid-oblong, about 2 lines lon^.— DC* Prod. vii. 509 ; Mtrhisia? 



Merhisia multifl. 



vii. 508. 



im^ 



W. Australia. Kiug George's Sound, K Broivn, A. Cunninglam, aud others, to 

 ^vs;au River, Frmer, Drummond, 1st ColL, aud others ; Geographe Bay, Gordon, Chapman, 



«a(l Blackwood rivers, Oldfield. 



H 1 .^1 



S.fasfir/iafa, De Yr. iu PI. Prciss. i. 406, or Merkusia fasiujiaia,ldt Vr. Gooden. 48, 

 "^m Bald Head, Preiss, n. 1491 which I have not seen, is, from the short characters given. 



most likely to be S. nitida. 



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Koll. i. 55. ^. 78. A glabrous 



of twice that 



weight. Leaves linear or lanceolate, ratlier tliick, entire or when Lroad 

 5 iglitly toollied, narrowed below the middle but shortly dilated and stem- 

 claspuig at the base, the longer ones 2 to 3 in. long, the floral ones or 

 wacts linear-lanceolate, the upper ones shorter than the flowers, glabrous or 

 collate with a few hairs. Flowers sessile in a terminal spike, at length long 

 ana interrupted with the lower ones distant. Calyx-limb broadly cup- 

 piped, sinuate-toothed, nearly half as long as the tube. Corolla (blue ?) 8 

 y Unas long, glabrous outside, with long subulate teeth or bristles tipped 

 {T" ^ minute white tuft descending in the throat from the margins ot the 

 wDes. Ovary 2-celled. Style slightly hairy, especially at the top. Indu- 

 1^+"? S^^'^^^s, ciliate. Fruit ovofd, rugose, the mesocarp having (at least 

 ;V " ^}^^^ «tate) 2 spurious empty ceUs often as large as the real ones and 

 alternating with them, but sometimes irregular.-R. Br. Prod. 584 ; DC. 



