462 Lxxiv. GOODENOviEJE (hiern). [SccBvola. 



furnished at the apex with a cup-shaped or bilabiate indusium which 

 includes the stigraa ; ovules 1 or more together, erect or ascending. 

 Fruit inferior, capsular or drupaceous. Seeds solitary or few or 

 numerous ; embryo straight, in the axis of rather fleshy uniform albu- 

 men • radicle next the hilum. — Shrubs undershrubs or herbs, with sap 

 not milky. Leaves alternate or fasciculate, entire or toothed, exstipu- 

 late. Flowers axillary or in axillary cymes or terminal panicles. 

 A Natural Order of more than 200 species, mostly Australian. 



1. SCiEVOLA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 539. 



Calyx-tube turbinate ovoid or globose ; limb usually short. Corolla- 

 tube cleft at the back down to the base ; lobes subequal, at length 

 spreading like the fingers of a hand. Anthers free. Ovary 2-1- 

 celled ; ovules erect, solitary or in 1-celled ovaries 1-2. Indusium 

 cap-shaped ; stigma truncate or bifid. Fruit indehiecent, fleshy out- 

 side ; endocarp hard. Seeds solitary ; embryo terete, nearly as long as 

 the albumen. — Flowers solitary between 2 bracteoles, sessile or pedun- 

 culate in the axils of the leaves or subtending bracts, or the peduncles 

 dichotomously branched with a flower in each fork. 

 A genus of about 60 species, mostly Australian. 



1. S. Iiobella, Linn. Syst. Veg., edit. xiii. (Murray) p. 178, 

 excl. syn. Bmnph. (1774). Shrubby, fleshy, glabrous in most parts ; 

 branchlets thick, marked below with the scar of fallen leaves, leafy 

 above. Leaves obovate, crowded, rounded at the apex, narrowed to the 

 sessile or broadly and shortly petiolate base, glabrous, -^3^ by f-1 J in. ; 

 nerves inconspicuous. Axils of the leaves and bracts woolly or gla- 

 brescent. Inflorescence shorter than equalling or rather exceeding the 

 leaves ; bracteoles lanceolate, about equalling the ovary. Calyx-limb 

 annular or shortly cup-shaped, truncate or obscurely toothed. Corolla 

 glabrous outside, yellowish ; tube nearly i in. long, densely woolly 

 inside ; lobes oblong, about ^ in. long. Indusium ciliate. Fruit about 

 J in. long.— Lobelia Plumieni, Linn. Sp. PI. edit. i. p. 929 (1753) ; S. 

 Phimierii, Vahl Syrab. ii. p. 36 (1791); non herb. Linn. ; Gerbera 

 ovata, Sieber! in Hb. Seneg. n. 23 et ex Presl. Rel. Haenk. ii. p. 59 

 (1825), non Cav. ; *S'. senegalensis, Presl, I.e. ; 8. Thunbergii, Eckl. et 

 Zeyh. ex Presl in E. Mey. Comment. PI. Afr. Austr. Dreg. p. 292 

 (1837) ; S. Sieberi, de Vriese, Goodenov. p. 33 (1854). 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Kokaut, Sieber! Guinea, a maritime shrub, Thoii- 

 ning! Grand Bassa, Th. Vogel ! St. Thomas Island, growing on the beach, Mann! 



Kower Guinea. Elephants Bay, Curror ! Arabriz, Loanda and Mossamedes, 

 Welwitsch! Catombelam, Wawra. 



Mozamb. Histr. Zambesi-land, Luabo River, Kirk ! 

 Occurs also south of the tropic and in the Mascarene Islands, and has a wide distri- 

 bution to India, the West Indies, the Galapago Islands. The extra- African synonymy 

 is mostly omitted. 



