MACLOSKIE GOODENIACEyE. 755 



broader than long. Stamens and styles as long as the not-cleft, subregu- 

 lar corolla, which is white to violet. 



(Chili); Magellan. 



(The above characters are from Philippi's plant.) 



2. HYPSELA RENIFORMIS Presl. 



Glabrous, creeping. Leaves orbiculate-reniform, petioles as long as the 

 limb, pedicels shorter. Calyx-tube campanulate, exceeding the ovate 

 lobes. Corolla-titbe 2-4 times as long as the calyx-lobes ; corolla-lobes 

 ovate-acuminate. 



(Andine, at Antisana Volcano in Quito and to Chili) ; S. Patagon., at 

 Coy Inlet, by Peterson, and at Cabo Negro; Killik Aike. (B. Brown.) 



(See note to Pratia repens.] 



Family 110. GOODENIACE^E. 



Herbs or shrubs, with usually alternate or radical, exstipulate leaves, and 

 no milky juice, and with perfect, mostly irregular, 5-merous flowers, hav- 

 ing adnate calyx and sympetalous corolla. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, 

 epigynous, with anthers usually distinct. Ovary i-2-celled. Style simple 

 or 2-cleft, with an indusium enclosing the stigma. Ovules i or more in 

 the cells. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Embryo straight in axis of endo- 

 sperm. 



Species 200, chiefly Australian ; some in tropical Asia, New Zeal. ; 

 with stragglers in Afr., W. Indies, Pacific Is. and Antarctic Amer. 



SELLIERA Cav. 



Low, perennial herbs, with creeping stem and i -lipped, purplish corolla, 

 with valvate lobes. Mouth of indusium naked. Peduncles long, i- 

 flowered, with 2 small bracts midway. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds 

 2 or more, ascending. 



Species 2, Australia; one of these is also in New Zeal, and in S. 

 Amer., viz. : 



S. RADICANS Pers. 



Glabrous, rooting at the nodes, with sessile to long-petioled oblanceo- 

 late, thickish, glabrous leaves, entire and subacute, 3-7 cm. long. 



(Austral. ; New Zeal.); Chiloe, in moist places by the sea; W. Patagon. 



