Sc^vola.] LXTV. GOODENOVIE^. 95 



Tinaer ^ in. long. Plowers blue, sessile or nearly so in a terminal leafy spike. 

 Bracteoles^ linear, much smaller than the bracts. Calyx-limb obsolete. 

 Corolla ^ in. long or rather longer, more or less hairy outside but not glan- 

 dular, with subulate teeth or soft bristles tipped with minute tnfls descending 

 in the throat from the margins of the lobes. Ovary 3-celled. Style hairy. 

 Indusium pubescent, eiliate. Fruit ovoid, very rugose, 2 to 3 lines long, the 

 thick hard pericarp showing 2 or more empty cavities nearly as large as the 

 true cells.— DC. Prod. vii. 510 ; Merkusia ancknsrefoUa, De Vr. Gooden. 65 



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Swan River, Huegel^ Drummond^ \st ColL 



25. S. holosericea^ Be Vr, in PL Preiss. i. 408. An erect undershrul) 

 ot I to 2 ft., densely villous with ratlier soft or more rigid hairs. Leaves 

 petiolate, lanceolate, entire or remotelv toothed, rather thick, the larger ones 

 ^ m. long or more, passing into the linear or linear-lanceolate floral leaves 

 0|' bracts^ of which the uppermost are shorter than the flowers. Flowers 

 )lue, sessile in a terminal leafy spike, at length much elongated. Bracteoles 

 linear. Calyx-limb broadly cup-shaped, truncate or sinuate-toothed. Co- 

 rolla nearly f in, long, hairy outside, with numerous subulate teeth or soft 

 bristles tipped with minute tufts descending in the throat from the margins 



of the lobes. Ovary 2-celled. Style very villous. Indusium eiliate. Fruit 

 not seen. J J 



- ^-Australia. Swan River, Preiss, n, 1478, 1512 ; Coogee, Oldfield. This species 

 *^^Qsdy allied on the one hand to S, anchusmfoUa^ on the other to 6'. siiaveolens, but can 



scarcely be united with either. S, sphcBvocarpa, De Vr. in PL Preiss. i. 409, from Swan 

 iver, Freiss, n. 1512, of which I have only seen an imperfect specimen, appears to be the 



2fi. S. suaveolens, i?. Br. Prod, 585. A prostrate or decumbent 



iwl perennial or undershrub, extending sometimes in dense masses for seve- 



™ teet, more or less clothed with appressed silky hairs or rarely glabrous. 



A^eaves petiolate, from obovate to obloug-spathulate, quite entire, thick, the 



^^rger ones 2 to 3 in. long, the upper ones smaller or linear when on elon- 



R^ted branches. Flowers blue, sessile in interrupted terminal hirsute spikes, 



J fjfacts obloug-linear, shorter than the flowers, the bracteoles still smaller 



^"^ hnear. Calyx-limb broadly cup-shaped, eiliate, otherwise entire or un- 



qual y 5-lobed. Corolla 7 to 8 lines long, villous or rarely nearly glabrous 



iitsule, with numerous subulate teeth or soft bristles tipped with minute 



Ws descending in the throat from the margins of the lobes. Ovary 2- 



S^^'led. Style sliahtl "" " 



^, .. ^^, Merhisia snaveoleris, De Vr. Gooden. 62. 



Curtk'^Tf^^^^ ^^^'^ t^e sea, Sandy Cape, Keppel Bay, BroaJ Sonnd, etc., S. Broisn ; 

 ^hell 1^^}' Senne, Thozet ; Burdekin Expedition, ' /zVz^z/^w ; Moreton Island, F. 



^■ard\rrpi^^*^^*- Seacoast, Botany Bav. R, Brown; Manly Beach, Wool Is ; north- 

 r«y. r l:^^^oce river, Heyiderson ; Richmond river, Wilcox; southward to Kiama, Ear- 



