Scavola.l LXIV. GOODENOVIE^. 103 



leaves. Bracteoles linear, slieatlnriG; and dilated at the base. Calvx-limb 

 almost obsolete. Corolla 6 to 8 lines long, densely tomentosc outside, tlie 

 lobes narrow, winged only in tlie upper half, ludusium M*ith a tuft of long 

 liairs outside, the margin ciliate. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 ovules. 



W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. F. Mueller (Fragm. ii. 19) considers this 

 as a variety of S. Oldfieldii, but it appears to me to be dilTcrent in foliage aud inJuiucutum, 

 as weU as in the tuft of hairs on the back of the indusium. 



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47. S. canescens, Benth. in Haeg, Enmu 69. A much-branched 

 shrub or undershrub, densely clothed with a soft stellate toraeutura often 

 intermixed with lon^i? silky or rarely spreading hairs. Leaves linear-oblong 

 or broadly lanceolate, obtuse, entire, soft and thick, the larger ones 2 or 3 in. 

 long and nniTOwed into a long petiole dilated and stem-clasping at the base, 

 hut mostly shortly narrowed at the base. Flowers in short dense spikes or 

 clusters, sessile in the axils or terminating short axillary branches, the floral 

 leaves or bracts linear, soft, often as long as the flowers. Bracteoles similar 

 to the bracts but smaller. Calyx-limb broadly annular or almost obsolete- 

 Corolla ^ in. long, hairy outside. Ovary l-celled, with 2 ovules. Style 

 nearly glabrous or with short hairs at the back of the indusium. Fruit 

 small.^DC. Prod. vii. 510 ; S. trinervis, De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i, 407 ; S. 

 ghucescens, De Vr. I.e. 410 ; Dampiera canesce^is, De Vr. Gooden. 114. t, 



"W, AustraUa. Swan River, ffueffel, Drummond, \st Coll. n. 412, also n. 24 and 

 ^^,Fraser, Preiss, n. 1477, 1479. 



One specimen of Preiss's S. trinervis is less tomentose, with broader thinner leaves and 



more developed flowering branchlets, perhaps grown in a less exposed situation ; another is 



Ike the common form. Some impertect specimens from Muichison nver, Oldfield, appear 



to be a variety with stout, very villous-tomeiitose branches, the axils vcr>- woolly, and witu 



smaller flowers. 



48. S. humifusa. Be Vr. in PL Preiss. i. 410. A diffuse or prostrate 

 much-brauched undershrub or small shrub, slightly pubescent besides the 

 white-woolly axils. Leaves linear witt revolute margins, the longer ones 

 alcove 1 in. long, narrowed below the middle and dilated at the base, but 

 "'ost of them much sliorter and densely tufted in the axils of the older ones, 

 sometimes not 3 lines long and buried in the wool, all quite entire and rather 



tick. Flowers sessile in short dense leafy spikes. Bracteoles linear-lanceo- 

 late, with wooUy axils. Calyx-limb reduced to a minute ciliate nng or 

 q«ite obsolete. Corolla 4 to 5 lines long, slightly hairy outside. Ovary i- 

 celled, with 2 erect ovules. Style slightly haiiy. Indusium scarcely ciliate. 

 ^ruit small— Merkusia humifma, De Vr. Gooden. 70. 



W. A„..*_„i:_ r. , ,. r X,.- I P...;,. « 14fiO.- Port Gresory and 



river, Oldfield. I 



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specimen with Preiss's above-Quoted number in F. MueUer's Herbanum, and De \ r.e.e s 

 J^scnption agrees well in many points, but in others it is totally at variance taken perhaps 

 ™ni some ditTerent species confounded with it. Meriusia moUusinea,^ Vr. Gooden. 71, 

 '«m iwan River, Drummond, is a bad specimen apparently of S. humifusa. 



Series 5. Parvifloe.e. Ovary 1-celled, 1- or 2-ovuIate, the convex 

 ^mmit free. Style covered with short purple glandular hairs. Leaves veiy 

 •larroff. Flowers small and numerous in terminal spikes. 



