23 FLORA OP TASMANIA. [GoodenoviecB. 
by the persistent lobes. Albumen 0. (Named in honour of Hubert Brown, the Botanist to Captain Flinders' Ex- 
pedition, and author of the justly celebrated * Prodromus Floras Novse-Hollandi*.') 
Nat. Ord. XLIV. GOODENOVIEtE. 
By far the greater number of the species of this Order are natives of Australia, whence upwards of 
150 have been described. Some of them have considerable ranges, but many are very local, and several of 
the most remarkable genera and species are confined to South-western Australia. Most of the Tasmanian 
species are yellow-flowered, and blossom in December and January. Mueller has discovered a valuable 
bitter in some of the Victoria species. 
Gen. I. DAMPIERA, Br. 
Calycis limbus abbreviatus v. 0. Corolla bilabiata, tubo hinc fisso, labii superioris lobis margine in- 
teriore auriculatis. Anthem imberbes, arete coheerentes. Ovarium 1-ovulatum. Stigmatis indusium ore 
nudo. Nux Crustacea.— Suffrutices v. herbse perennes ; foliis alternis ; pedunculis axillaribus, pauci- 
floris ; corollis deciduis. 
About thirty or forty species of this genus are known, all Australian, and chiefly confined to the south-west 
quarter. They are generally suffruticose plants, with angular branches, alternate, coriaceous, entire or toothed 
leaves, and rather small, axillary, blue flowers.— Calyx-Kmh very short or none. Corolla two-lipped, split down 
one side ; the lobes of the upper lip auriculate on the inner margin. Anthers cohering. Cup of the stigma naked. 
Ovary one-ovuled. Fruit a crustaceous nut. (Named in honour of William Bampier, the navigator, who brought 
a drawing of a species of this genus, and of various other plants, from the west coast of Australia in a.d. 1699.) 
l stricta (Br. Prodr. 589) ; herbacea, erecta, virgata, pubescens v. glabrata, caule com- 
presso trigono, foliis sessilibus cuneatis subdentatis, pedunculis paucifloris axillaribus terminalibusque, co- 
rollis extus sericeis. {Gunn, 1180.) 
Var. a; foliis supra scabris.— D. stricta, Br. I. c. ; DC. Prodr. vii. 505; Be Vriese, Gooden, 109. 
Var. /3; foliis supra glabris lsevibus.— D. oblongata, Br. I.e.; BC. I.e.; Be Vriese, Gooden. 106. 
Hab. Var. a. Flinders' Island and Cape Barren Island, Gunn. Var. /3. Source of the North Esk 
River, Strzelecki.— (Fl. Oct.) 
Distrib. Extratropical Australia, from New South Wales to Swan River. 
I have examined a very extensive suite of specimens of the D. stricta and oblongata of Brown, and find so 
many intermediate forms, that I have brought them together here. Of Gunn's specimens, one accords with stricta 
in the scabrous upper surface of the foliage, but the leaves are oblong-cuneate ; the other with B. oblongata, in the 
leaf being glabrous above, and of exactly the same form as that of B. stricta. 
Gen. II. SC^VOLA, B. 
Calyeis limbus superus, 5-lobus. Corolla longitudinaliter fissa/limbo 5-lobo, lobis alatis conformibus. 
Anthem liber*. Stigmatis indusium ciliatum. Brupa carnosa v. exsucca, 2-4-locularis, loculis mono- 
spermy Herbse habitu varia ; foliis plerisque alternis; floribus axillaribus, spicatis cymosisve, interdum 
A very large genus, several species of which are common tropical littoral plants, but by far the greater number 
are peculiar to Australia, where about fift y 
; known. These have been divided into sections by Brown, 
Don, Bentham, and others, and latterly the genus has been broken up into se 
ture of the flower and fruit is so similar in all, that I have not adoptee 
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