t 



i 



.Diaspasls,'] LXiv. goodexoyie.e. 105 



^vitli short hairs, witli a liani stock and erect or ascetiding wiry stems slightly 



branched, sometimes all under 1 ft. high, sometimes weaker 'and 2 ft. loiifj^. 



Leaves linear, almost terete, | to 1| in. long, enlii-e, or the lower ones rarciy 



dilated and bordered by a fe^v teeth. Peduncles rather shorter or longer tluui 



the leaves, the linear-terete bracteolcs close under the flower. Calyx-lobes 



ovate, very much shorter than the tube. Corolla i to f in. long, the lobes 



longer than the tube, their wings broad and veinloss. Indusium more or 



less hairy, but the margin not ciliate.— DC. Prod. vii. 505 ; De Yr. Goodeii. 



178; Goodenia armerirefolia , De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 412, not of DC, (J. 



ghnduVfera, De Vr. Gooden. 129 ; Scmvola dandestiua, F. Muell. Pragm. i. 

 206. 



W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drummondj 

 "■ US, 1873 Preiss, n. 2033, and many others. 



10. VERREAUXIA, Benth. 



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Calyx-tube adriate ; lobes 5, free. Corolla-tube slit on tlie upper side to 

 tne ovary, the lobes nearly equal, the 2 upper ones separated rather 

 lower down (arching over the style ?), not auriculate, the 3 lower ones 

 spreading, all equally winged. Stamens free. Ovary wholly inferior, 1- 

 ct'lled, with 1 ovule erect from the base. Indusium cup-shaped, en- 

 closing tlie stigma, the margin ciliate. Fruit small, more or less flattened, 

 indehiscent, usually crowned by tlie annular persistent base of the corolla. 

 oeed flat, with a thin crustaceous testa. Embryo terete in the centre of the 

 I ^'oumen.--Herbaceou3 or suffmticose plants, stellate-tomeutose or woolly. 



-L-eaves entire. Flowers in terminal leafless panicles or spikes. 



The genus is Umited to Australia. With the flowers and flat seeds of Qoodenia, it has 

 Jhe ovary and fruit of Bampiera. 



I^a^es all radical. Panicle long loose and slender, with flhform cy- 



niose branches 1. F. pamculaia. 



Stems leafy, riowers clustered along a "long simple rhachis ... 2. V. ReinTcardtii. 



panicxdata, Benth. A perennial, with a thick tufted and densely 

 woolly stock. Leaves all radical, obovate or oval-oblong, obtuse, entire, 

 nwrowed into a petiole, thick and softly tomentose or woolly on both sides, 

 ^5 to 3 in. long. Scapes erect, slender, 1 to li ft. high, becoming quite 

 glabrous, leafless or with 1 or 3 very small linear cottonv leaves, the branches 

 or peduncles filiform, bearin- each a loose cyme of 3 to 7 small (yellow ?) 

 "ow^ers, or the uppermost l^flowered. Bracts minute. Calyx-tube hispid 

 l^ith long purplish hairs intermixed with a close cottony wool ; lobes liuear- 

 anceolate nearly as long as the tube. Corolla 3 to 4 lines long, hispid out- 

 '' , "^'th short simple hairs intermixed with a glandular pubescence. Fruit 



I "fly seen young, but then appears flattened with 1 broad erect flat seed.— 



\ """"^t^ra Fen-eauxii, De Yr. Gooden. 118. t. 20. 



14^ ^^straUa, Drummond, Mh Coll. n. 186; sandy plain of Quangen, Freiss *. 

 * iarpH 7-P™mmond's specimens, the only ones I could analyse, the flowers are much m- 



coroll V" °°^ ^^^1 certain whether the form and position of the upper lobes of the 

 are the same as in F. Reimcardtii or not. 



^- V. Reiawardtii, Beuih. An undershrub or shrub of 2 to 3 ft.. 



1. V. 



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