Scaevola.] GOODENIACEAE. 265 
albumen, the embryo straight, with the radicle next the hilum. — Herbs 
or shrubs, the juice not milky. Leaves usually alternate, without stipules. 
A small Order of chiefly Australian species, only the following genus having a wider 
ange. 
1. SCAEVOLA, L. 
Corolia slit to the ug: on the upper side, its lobes margined and 
induplicate, subequal, the 2 upper spreading . all conniving. Anthers 
free, erect from an Dinas arrow base, continuous with the filaments, 
e€ 2 narrow cells parallel before a broad connective. Indusium cup- 
shaped, surrounding a truncate or 2-lobed stigma. Ovary 2-, rarely 4-celled, 
with 1 erect ovule in each cell. Fruit a drupe with a fleshy or suberose 
mesocarp and a ligneous or crustaceous endocarp. Embryo as long as 
the albumen, with terete or foliaceous cotyledons. — Herbs or shrubs 
with generally (in all Hawaiian species) alternate entire or toothed leaves. 
Flowers axillary, generally praia at the base of the calyx and 
articulate with the pedicels, single ymose with the median flower 
Sessile, white, purplish or yellow, ve pce always hairy inside. Style 
incurved below the indusium in all our species. 
About 60 ne Mis natives principally of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, only o. 
other Polyn mountai ie om New Caledonia, a few littoral spéeten 
spread through Palyn esia td bsaee ts of tropical Asia, Africa, and of some islands of the 
W. Indies name: aka» 
— An Fie spreading hee: anthers enclosed in the 
tuneate at the sai style as long as the corolla; ne 
<8 he base 
Corolla pale blue, wit th gray tomentum ; eymes very short; leaves 
gray-tomentose underneath, entire or shortly many-toothed ; 
drupe 2-or 4-celled 7. S. mollis. 
Corolla w hite, with purplish streaks; “Jeaves glabrous, at least 
with age; ‘aru: elled : 
PR obovate, Rake or emarginate : 
S 5—9-flowered ; limb of calyx Stoothed : : 2 er Lobelia. 
es 1—3-flowered; Jno of ¢ tire . ‘ ; ; 2. S. coriacea. 
Leaves acute or acuminate 
Leaves spathulate, entire or with a few teeth; cyme 1—3- : th 
flowered, very sho 3. S. Gaudichaudit. 
Leaves obova rays oothed or serrate in the upper 2 half: 
ded; leaves pubescent when youn. 6. S. procera. 
Cymes as one i the leaf, many-fowered leaves = sao : : 
Drupe ovoid or ellipsoid: 4, 8, Chamissoniana. 
Drupe elongate, cylindrical 5. S. cylindrocarpa. 
Corolla curved, with lobes — spreading, } yellow stamens as 
long as the corolla, style exserted beyond, the anthers deltoid 
at the top; calyx without rene at the base . 8. S. glabra. 
1. 8. Lobelia, Z. — De Vriese, in Kruidk. i a I, 20. — An erect 
Shrub, 4—6 ft. high, extensively branching from the base, the succulent 
branches, leaves and inflorescence generally ‘silky. pubescent, rarely glabrate, 
but always with a tuft of lon silky hairs in the axils. Leaves fleshy, 
bright green, obovate, 3—5’ xe 1!/2—2‘, rounded, even emarginate at the 
