394 GOODENOVIE2. [Sellvera. 
OrpvEr XL. GOODENOVIE. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or radical, rarely opposite ; 
stipules wanting. Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular or rarely 
regular, axillary or terminal, solitary or in spikes or racemes or 
panicles. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, limb of 4 persistent 
lobes or obsolete. Corolla gamopetalous, usually irregular, 5-lobed, 
often split to the base at the back. Stamens 56, alternate with the 
lobes of the corolla and inserted at its base; anthers free or rarely 
connate into a ring surrounding the style. Ovary inferior or nearly 
so, 1-2-celled; style simple, with a cup-shaped or 2-lipped expan- 
sion which encloses the stigma, and is called the indusium; ovules 
1 or 2 or more in each cell, erect or ascending. Fruit an indehis- 
cent drupe or nut or a 2-4-valved capsule. Seeds albuminous; 
embryo axile, radicle next the hilum. 
An order containing 12 genera and about 200 species, nearly the whole of 
which are confined to Australia, a few species of Scevola extending to the 
Pacific islands and the coasts of tropical Asia and Africa, and one species of 
Selliera to South America. The order has no important properties. 
Creeping fleshy herb. Leaves linear - spathulate, entire. 
Berry many-seeded. . re -. ‘1. SELLIPRA. 
The New Zealand species a diffuse or procumbent under- 
shrub. Drupe 2-celled, with one seed in each cell .. 2. SCHVOLA. 
1. SELLIERA, Cav. 
Small glabrous creeping and rooting perennial herbs. Leaves 
alternate or fascicled at the nodes, entire. Flowers axillary, sessile 
or pedunculate. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary; limb 5-lobed or 
-partite. Corolla oblique, split to the base at the back; limb of 5 
nearly equal lobes, at length digitately spreading; the margins 
inflexed or winged. Stamens 5, epigynous; anthers free. Ovary 
inferior, more or less completely 2-celled; ovules numerous in 
each cell. Style undivided ; stigma short, truncate, enclosed within 
the cup-shaped indusium. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds 
usually numerous, compressed or irregularly shaped. 
A small genus of two species, one of which is coafined to Western Aus- 
tralia ; the other occurs in Australia, Tasmania, and Chili, as well as in New 
Zealand. 
1. S. radicans, Cav. Ic. v. 49, t. 474.-A glabrous creeping and 
rooting perennial; stems 1-10in. iong, usually matted and inter- 
laced, forming broad flat patches. Leaves variable in size, $—4in. 
long, linear-spathulate to oblong-spathulate or obovate-spathulate, 
obtuse, narrowed into a long petiole, quite entire, nerveless, very 
thick and fleshy. Peduncles axillary, 1- or rarely 2-flowered, 
shorter than the leaves, with 2 subulate bracts above the middle. 
Flowers white, 4in. long. Calyx-lobes lanceolate or linear. 
Corolla-lobes ovate, acute, not winged. Fruit fleshy, ovoid or 
obovoid, about tin. long. Seeds compressed, orbicular, narrowly 
