115 



98 LXiv. GOODEKOVIE^. IScatok. 



length long and intcrmptecl. Bractcoles linear. Cal\x-linib annular or 

 very shortly cup-shaped, sinuate. Corolla about 4 lines long, more or less 

 hairy outside, sometimes with a few penicillate soft bristles at the base of 

 the lobes. Ovary 2-celled. Style shortly hirsute. Indusium shortly ciliatc 

 or quite without cilia, at least on one side. Fruit ovoid, ribbed and 

 furrowed, about 3 lines long, but not seen ripe. — DC» Prod. vii. 510 j S. 

 lasiantha, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 207. 



'WT. Australia. Swan River, Hiiegel; wet places, Kalgan, Gordon, and Vasse riven 

 and Champion Bay, Oldfield ; Phillips river, MaxivelL Very near S. longifolia, differing 

 chiefly iu the bracts, and in the shorter cilia of the indusium, IVom S. thesioides it dif- 

 fers in the hairinesSj in the bracts, and in the shape of the fruit. 



33. S. thesioides, Bentlt, in Hueg. Enum. 68. An erect, glabro 

 undershriib, attaining 2 or 3 ft. Leaves linear, not crowded, the upper ones 

 very narrow, the lower ones sometimes lanceolate, all obtnse and entire or 

 rarely with 1 or 2 minute teeth, rather thick, 1 to 2 in- long, the floral ones 

 reduced to linear bracts, dilated at the base, 3 or 4 lines long. Flowers 

 small, sessile, in terminal, leafy spikes. Bractcoles linear, dilated at the 

 base, nearly as long as the subtending bract. Calyx-tube shortly pubescent. 

 the limb a scarcely prominent ring, sometimes obscurely lobed. Corolla 

 about 4 lines long, glabrous outside. Ovary 2-celled. Style covered witi 

 short hairs. Indusium glabrous, not ciliate. Pruit small, compressed, 

 broader than longer, with a thick, somewhat corky pericarp.— DO. Prod. vn. 

 508 ; S, sqnarrosa, Lindl. Swan Eiv. App, 26 ; S, polystacJiya, DC. Prod. vii. 

 508 ; S. panictdata and S, fiaccida, De Vr. iu PI. Preiss. i. 407 ; U^rW^ 

 tJtesioides, De Vr. Gooden. 53. t. 11. 



^W". AustraHa. Swan Kiver, ICuegel, Drummond, Preiss, n. 1516, 1521 ; Port Gre- 

 gory aud South Hutt river, Oldfield \ Oldfield and Phillips rivers. Maxwell. 



Series 3. Pogogy>'eje.— Ovary 2-celled. Indusium with a dense tufl 

 of hairs at the base on the back, as long as the indusium itself, and ofleo 

 purple coloured. 



^ 34. S. macrophylla, Berdh, Erect (from a woody stock?), verj^ 'i^'' 

 pid, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, mostly tootliei. 

 stem-clasping at the base, 1 to 1^ in. long in some specimens, much sma^l^ 

 in otliers, tlie upper ones passing gradually into lanceolate bracts. FIo^ve - 

 almost sessile, in a terminal, leafy spike, at first very dense, but after^nr => 

 lengthening. Bractcoles linear-subulate. Calyx-lobes exceedingly sn|3 . 

 ovate, ciliate. Corolla f to 1 in. long, silky hairy or hispid outside. » y - 

 flattened. Indusium almost surrounded at the base by a dense t«n 

 purplish hairs as long as itself, the margin ciliate with white hairs. Ova. 

 g-celled. Drupe small, oblong, xv.z<y%^.—Molkenloerla macropTiylla, P^ 

 Gooden. 4i. t. 8. 



IV. Australia, Brummond, Wi ColL n. 362 ; Cape Eiche, MaxwelL 



35. S. platyphylla, LbidL Swan Riv, App, 26. Erect, woody a^ |^J 

 base, with rigid, herbaceous branches, hispid with spreading hairs or alio^ 



glabrous- 



or with a few coarse teeth, 1 to 1| or rarely 2^ in. long, the upP*^>' 



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