118 LXiv. GOODENOVIE^E. [Dainftera. 



petiole, linear-oblong or spatliulate, rarely obovate-oblong, entire or with a 

 few teeth, coriaceous and rigid, f to 1^ in. long. Peduncles in tlie upper 

 axils usually longer than the floral leaves and several-flowered, but sometimes 

 short. Bracteoles linear. Floivers blue, covered with rather long hairs, 

 usually loosely spreading but sometimes almost appressed and irregularly 

 branched or stellate at the base. Calyx-lobes quite obsolete. Corolla about 

 i in. long. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 ovule erect from the base. — DC. Prod 

 vii. 504; De Vr. Gooden. lO^t; D. azurea, De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 400; 

 Gooden. 103 ; B. erlopJtora, De Yr. in PL Preiss. i. 400 i D, ereda, De Yr. 

 in PI. Preiss. i. 401, according to De Yr. Gooden. 104. 



W. Australia. King George's Soundj K Broivn^ and thence to Swan and Vasse 

 Rivers, Brummond, \st CoIL n, 17, Preiss, 7u 147*5, 1500, Huegel, Oldfiehl, and others j 

 Mount Manypcak, Maxwell, 



The broad-leaved forms, to which this specific name is scarcely applicable, may still be 

 distinguished from D. cttneata by their shape as ^\'cll as by the larger, more loosely villous 

 flowers, less rigid bracts, etc, 



28. D. cuneata, 72. Br. Prod. 588. A perennial, with erect and vir- 



gate or diffuse and more branching stems, sprinkled mth short, stellate hairs, 



and a few longer ones soft and simple or shortly plumose at the base, the 



inflorescence more covered with long, soft hairs ; branches angular. Leaves 



sessile, obovate or oblong-euneate, entire or angular-toothed, coriaceous, 



nearly glabrous, mostly about \ in. long, but on luxuriant shoots twice that 



size. Peduncles in the upper axils longer than the leaves, bearing each au 



ipegvdar cyme of 3 or more flowers, with nan'ovv, rigid, leafy bracts of 3 to 4 



lines, the lower peduncles sometimes replaced by slender, leafy branches, 



with flowers solitary in the axils. Calyx-lobes quite obsolete. Corolla 4 to 



5 lines long, covered with long hairs, intermixed with smaller, stellate ones. 



Ovary 1-celled, with 1 erect, oblong ovule. Fruit oblong, 1 to \\ lines long. 



—DC, Prod. vii. 504 ; De Vr. Gooden. 102 ; D. lanuginosa, De Vr. Gooden. 

 81, 



'W. Australia. King George's Sound, E, Brown and many others, Drummond. »■ 

 UO {or 40?) and 157 {or 127?). There are also many specmiens without flowers of 

 Drummoad*s n. 27, which may be this species. 



29. D, sericantha^ F. MuelL Herb. A small perennial, glabrous_ ex- 

 cept the flowers. Stems slender but rigid, erect or ascending, branching, 

 under 1 ft. high. Leaves sessile, but narrowed at the base, oblong-cuneate, 

 entire or angular-toothed, mostly small but occasionally nearly 1 in. long, 

 obtuse, thick, and flat. Flowers small, deep blue, 2 or 3 together ou 

 rather long peduncles in the upper axils. Bracts linear, rigid. Calyx-lobes 

 obsolete. Corolla about 4 lines long, silky-white outside, with long, ap- 

 pressed hairs. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 erect, linear ovule. 



. 'VV- Australia. Lucky Bay, MaxtoelL This may possihly prove to he an anomalous 

 form o± B, parvifoha, bat it is much less rigid, and the inflorescence is different. 



30. 'D. parvifoHa, R. Br. Prod. 589. Herbaceous, rigid, and gla- 

 brous when full grown except the flower, the stock and axils sometim« 

 woolly, and the young shoots hoary-tomentose. Leaves thick, a few of the 

 lower ones sometimes obovate or cuneate, slightly toothed at the end, and t 



