120 



ixiv, GOODENOViE^. [Damjiiera. 



the persistent base of the corolla. Corolla about ^ in. long. Ovary 1- 

 celled, witli 1 straight ovule erect from the base.— -Sc^i-o^a prosirata, De Yr. 

 in PI. Preiss. i. 406. ^ ; 



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Kalgau rivers, Stirling Eange, Oldjeld ^ Gardiner river, Maxwell. 



Sect. 5. Cepiialantha.— Leaves radical. Scapes simple or branchec!. 

 Flowers m dense, terminal heads. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 linear-oblong, 

 straight ovide erect from the base. 



*i •^'*' P; ^,"ocephala, De Vr. Gooden. 118. L 21. A perennial, with a 

 thick, tutted stock. Leaves radical, petiolate, obovate oval or oblong, 

 obtuse, entire or smuate-toothed, rather thick, often several inches long, gla- 

 brous above clothed underneath in the typical form with a close, white 

 tomentum Scapes erect, woolly-tomentose, 1 to 2 ft. high, leafless, and 

 simple below the flower-head or more or less corymbosely branched, with 

 sessile, oblong or linear leaves or bracts subtending the branches. Piowers 

 blue, in dense, villous heads rarely growing out into short spikes, at the 

 ends ot the stem or branches. Bracts lanceolate, ciliate, otherwise glabrous 

 or silky-viUous. Calyx-lobes small, and almost concealed in tbe indumen- 

 tum. Corolla 6 to 8 lines long, clothed with long, silkv, appressed or 

 spreading hairs. Ovary 1-eelled, with 1 erect ovule. 



Hf^' iJ''^V^l^^^.^' I>>-nmmond, Wi Coll. n. 69, 70 ; rocks, Mongeriip, Stirling Bange. 

 juaxuell. Ihe simple-scaped specimens have verj much the aspect of Brunonia. 



ih.Zl':rTJ%' V ■ ^^l"'"- ^^^'^ *^''^'^'' "'^'^'■o^s 0° l^ol^ sides. Flowers much smaller} 

 the corolla 4 to 5 hues long, with naiTow lohes.—Drummoud, Uh Coll. n. 1G2. 



12. BRUNONIA, Sm. 



Calyx-tube free but contracted over the ovarv; lobes 5. Corolla nearly 

 regular, inserted at the base of the calyx-tube, tlie tube cylindrical ; lobes 5. 

 valvate, spreading the 2 upper ones separated rather lower down. Stamens 

 5 inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, the filaments cohering upwards, 

 the anthers coherin^r ,n a ring round the style. Ovary free, but enclosed in 

 the calyx-tube, 1-cellcd, with a single erect'anatropous ovule. Stvle simple; 

 stigma short y 2-lobed, enclosed in a cup-shaped indusium. Fruit a small 

 mit enclosed in the hardened calyx-tube. Seed erect, without albumen, 

 i^^ffibrjo straiglit, cotyledons ovate, radicle short, inferior.— Silky-hairy per- 



emual. Leaves radical. Flowers in a dense head, intermixed with bracts, 

 on a leafless scape. 



to W^ber^ 'n,!i'f '^*f ^ ^'^^\ ^1"=^'" ^"^™5<-' ^"^ Australia. R. Brown appears to me 

 indnt,™ It h. ■ '^1 """ '"''•'■'^■"S it in Ooodenovic., of which it has the remarkable 

 re' Lcrs Id Til "''■'■"''''' '"5° "° '•.ulepeudent Order, on aceouut of the free ovary. 

 vleX the nethbi T !i'"'rp; ''f' ""'^ '^"^ •=^«^» ^^^^ removed far away from Goodeno- 

 SefelyeilLTk th °f ,°^^^'^^"^'^^^ The ovary and fruit are. however, so com- 



laSs the evrenfii «1 "f '^.''''•"■^"'^•^ ^^ *" ^« re^Uy ^ss free fhau iu Lohdia Tal^ 



Se =neeL of -sl r«l^ regular flowers are but little more so than in Bia^p^^is, and m 

 ThThEof L^r:7,fXF"%f{ T'^^'^^"^' I h-e fouud the albumen nfnch reduced. 



