Scavola.] LXIV. GOODENOVIEiE. 101 



^^- Australia, S^-au River, Fraser^ Drummond, n. 187, 190, Karri Dale, WalcotL 

 In many respects uear S, aia'iculafa.hni the leaves and flowers smaller, and the ovary, in 

 numerous specimens examined, never showed any trace of dissepiment between the ovules. 

 The "semen longitudine sectuin," f. 10 of De Yriese's plate, is evidently one of the unripe 

 seeds separated from the other, and show^ing at the base the minute placenta, which the 

 author appears to have mistaken for the emhiyo. 



41. S. cuneiformis, LabilL PL Nov, IIoll. i. 56. L 80. Herbaceous, 

 <^ppareiitly annual, clothed with short, appressed hairs or nearly glabrous, 

 otems erect or ascending, \ to 1 ft. high. Leaves petiolate, the louver ones 

 obovate, attaining often 2 in., the upper ones oblong-cuneate, passing into 

 the sessile, ovate-oblong or broadly lanceolate bracts, which are mostly under 

 1 in, long and quite entire. Flowers sessile, in a long, interrupted spike. 

 -Bracteoles broadly lanceolate. Calyx-lobes very small, ovate. Corolla 

 slightly pubescent outside, 7 to 8 lines long.. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 ovules. 

 Indiisium with a dense tuft of usually purplish hairs at the base on the back, 

 fis Ions as the indusiura itself. Fruit small.— E. Br. Prod. 584; DC. Prod, 

 vn. 509; Merhisia cuneiformis, De Yr. Gooden. 54. 



y 7^' Australia, Lahillardiere, Cape Arid and Cape le Grand, Maxwell Althoun;h 

 nave not seen Labillardiere's specimensj his figure and description leave no doubt as to Ihe 

 laeutity of the species. The leaves are nearly those of B, annifa, but more glabrous. The 

 ovary is always 1-celled, as in S. microphylla, but the foliage is very different. 



42. S. microcarpa, Cav. Ic. vi. 6. t. 509. A procumbent, diffuse or 

 ascending, very rarely almost erect perennial, more or less pubescent. Leaves 

 petiolate, obovate ovate or cuneate, coarsely toothed, tbe lower ones often 1 

 to \\ in. long, the upper cues smaller, passing into the sessile, ovate-oblong 

 w lanceolate, entire or toothed floral leaves or bracts, which are mostly shorter 

 J|ian the flowers. Spike usually long and interrupted. Bracteoles linear, 

 ^alyx-lobes small, ovate. Corolla hairy outside, 7 to 9 lines long in the 

 typical form, the lobes fringed at the base with a few long cilia, sometimes pe- 

 nicillate, and descending into the throat as in the GlobuUfem. Ovary 1-celled, 

 With 2 ovules. Style more or less hairy. Indusium glabrous, ciliate. Fruit 

 small, usually 1-seeded.— E. Br. Prod. 585; DC. Prod. vii. 509; Goodeuia 

 t 2^' ^""- ^'^ Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 348; G. IcEvigata, Curt. Bot. Mag. 



' ^^i; Merhisia microcarpa, De Yr. Gooden. 55. 



anJ'w^" "^*les. Port Jaclfson to (He Blue Mountains, i?. Brown and others ; Glendoti 

 StuaH^^^'^^' •£^^V/^/;a;■^i; , Macleay and Clarence rivers, BecUer ; New England, C. 



Victoria. Portland forest, Eerh. F. ilueller. 



■'^'istralia. Burra-Burra, Rinferacker ; Port Adelaide, Blandoicslcy. 



yar- pallida. 

 and 



Prod 

 from 



Et^?' f ^''^^^^'•- Compared with the common large-flowered i\. ft. vvaies lorm, ims 



thf o^l 1?" ''^^ different, but the flowers vary much in size, and the character indicated of 



glabrous styles is not constant, for some of the S. Australian small-flowered specimens 



stvfp" If"^ Il-^Wfast Bay, Whittaker) have the flowers of S. ^pallida, with the very hairy 



rectlv t "^ ^''^^"'^'"'' Sieb. Fl. Mist. n. 60S. is referred by F. Mueller, and probably cor- 

 i' b. microcarpa, but the specimens I have seen have no flowers. 



