138 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 

 By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 



(Continued.) 



SiDA KiNGII. 



Shrubby or nearly so, erect, densely covered with a yellowish- 

 brown vestiture ; leaves on rather short stalks, roundish-or 

 lanceolar-oval, crenulated, wavy from distant beneath prominent 

 spreading nerves ; stipules almost setaceous ; flowers at and 

 towards the summit of the branchlets from the axils of diminu- 

 tive leaves ; their stalks solitary, somewhat longer than the 

 calyx or twice as long, very thin, jointed close to the upper 

 end ; calyces cleft hardly beyond the middle into ovate- 

 semilanceolar lobes, rather membranous, much veined, glabrous 

 inside, somewhat enlarging in age ; corolla very small, scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx, hairy towards the base ; stamens not 

 numerous, their columnar portion very short ; fruitlets about 

 10, coherent into a roundish very depressed mass, much shorter 

 than the calyx, densely beset with minute star-hairy bristles at 

 the back, deeply wrinkled-foveolate at the sides, not higher 

 than broad nor pointed ; seeds silky-downy. 



Near Lake Austin ; H. S. King, Esq. 



From the only other Australian congener with spinulous 

 fruits, namely Sida echinocarpa, this one is readily distinguished 

 by its less close and not pale indument, by rather smaller leaves 

 on shorter petioles and with stronger nervature, by pedicels 

 not jointed towards the middle, by the dense vestiture of the 

 fruit, giving it some resemblance to that of various species of 

 Triumfetta and Commerconia ; the fruitlets moreover being 

 deeper reticulated at the sides and not conspicuously hollowed 

 at the summit. 



Sida platycalyx has been collected near the Bulloo by Mrs, 

 Spencer ; the fruit-calyx is flat at the bottom, on which about 

 6 blunt and wrinkled fruitlets are ripening. Sida inclusa was 

 found on the Finke-River by the Rev. H. Kempe. 



GOODENIA StEPHENSONI. 



Erect or ascending, minutely and densely glandular-hairy ; 

 leaves of chartaceous texture, from narrow-lanceolar to nearly 

 linear, almost sessile, remotely and irregularly denticulated, flat, 

 equally green on both sides ; peduncles generally one-flowered, 

 solitary, axillary, from somewhat longer than the calyx to twice 

 as long, with small bracteoles below the middle ; pedicel very 

 short ; tube of the calyx longer than the narrow lobes ; corolla 

 yellow, narrowly protruding on the lower side of the calyx, 

 subtly gland-hairy outside, its lower lobes rather short, all 

 ■expanding into broad at the summit truncate membranes ; 



