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LXiv. GooDENOViE^, [ScavoJa. 



_ Victoria. Port Pliillip, i?. I]rown; from the mouth of the Glenelg, ^//^«, to Wnson's 

 Fromoutory, F. Mueller. ° 



S. Australia. 



Ml 



^ Series 2. Macrostachy^. Ovary 2-celled. Hairs on the back of the 

 indusium short, or few and scattered. Mowers usually smaller than in the 

 MoOuh/erce (white ?), with very few or no penicillate bristles in the throat of 

 the corolla. Fruiting spikes usually continuous or only the lower flowers 

 distant, with small bracts. 



A 



pV\ ^' f ®^°ifV*^» ^- ^^'- ^''°^- SS6. An underslirub or spreading shnib 

 ot ^ to 6 tt., softly villous all over and sometimes silky. Leaves from ob- 

 ovate-oblong to cuneate or lanceolate, mostly obtuse, flat or with revolute 

 margms, entire, thick and soft, rarely exceeding -| in. and mostly shorter, the 

 upper ones passing gradually into oblong-linear bracts, either as long as or 

 s lor er than the flowers. Flowers sessile in a terminal leafv spike, sometimes 

 short and niterrupted at the base, sometin.es very much elongated. Calvx- 

 l.rab obsolete Corolla nearly i in. long, hairy outside. Ovary 2-celied. 

 btyle slightly hairy. Indusium ciliate. Fruit small, oblong, rugose, but not 



seen npe.-DC. Prod. vii. 510; Merkuda remluta, De Vr. Gooden. 64, 

 partly. ' 



Vic^orif ."'ri-'XS'^' °^ '^" ^"^^ "*■ ^^^i'^^'^taria, R. Bro.n ; Sea Eange and Upper 



28. S. ovalifolia, R. Br. Frod. 584. An erect brandling perennial or 

 undershrub, about 1 ft. high, usually pubescent, sometimes viscid, rarely al- 

 most glabrous, of a pale green. Lower leaves petiolate, ovate or obovate, 

 coarsely toothed or sometimes entire, 1 to 2 in. long besides the petiole, 

 upper ones smaller and more sessile ; floral leaves or bracts ovate-lanceolate 

 or elliptical leafy but mostly under a in. long, entire or the lower ones 

 toothed, i' lowers sessile, in an interrupted leafv spike. Bracteoles linear 

 orlmear-Ianceolate. Calyx-lobes exceedinglv short, rounded. Corolla about 

 f m. long, glabrous or pubescent outside. ' Ovary 2-celled, but one ovule 

 sometimes abortive. Style slightly hairy. Lidusium ciliate. Fruit sn.all. 

 ovoid-oblonor.— DC. Prod. .W F^no . Merhisia ovaUn '•- -- ^'- ^—'- ^^■ 



ih^r ^rn ' Satidstoiie table-land, Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller ; islands of 

 the Gult of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Sweers Island, Henne. 

 Queen_sland. Hinders river, Bomnan. 



Darling river, Nielsen ; Mount Goningbery, Victorian Expedition. 

 Cooper's Creek, Howiit's ExBediiion. 



N. S. V/ales. 



S. Australia. 



mil. i. .fifi. t. 79. A elabrou: 



shrub, either low and decumbent or very divaricate and attaining 2 or J 

 ft. Leaves on rather long petioles, obovate orbicular or spathulate, 1 to 2 

 in. long thick and rigid, bordered by small teeth. Flowers sessile or nearly 

 so, lu rather dense spikes of 1 to 3 in., of which several together form some- 

 times a terminal panicle. Bracts linear-lanceolate, entire, rarely above \ ^^^ 

 long the bracteoles much smaller. Calvx-limb short, broad, and truncate. 

 Corolla about 1 m. long, glabrous outside. Ovary 2-celled. Style nearly 

 glabrous. Indusium sparingly ciliate. Fruit small, globular or depresseJ. 



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