THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 101 



■Confined to Australian distribution. Closely related to Goodenia. 



Sepals 5. Corolla spurred. Flower-stalk tall ... 1. V. paradoxa. 

 Sepals 3. Flower-stalk short ... ... ... ... 2. V. montana. 



1. V. PARADOXA, JR. Br. Perennial. Leaves radical, mostly 2-4 inches long, 

 oblong, and narrowed below into a stalk, margin entire or coarsely toothed. 

 Flowers few or many, in a loose cyme on a common stalk. Sepals narrow, about 

 \ inch long. Corolla yellow, large, and spreading, with a|spur of irregular length. 

 Indusium deeply horseshoe-shaped. 



- Common in many parts, chiefly dry pastures. Throughout extra-tropical 

 Australia. Fl. Nov.-Dec. 



2. V MONTANA," Hook. A much smaller plant than the preceding. Leaves 

 radical, 1-2 inches long, somewhat spathulate. Flowers on a short stalk, not 

 exceeding the leaves. Sepals 3, narrow, about j inch long. Corolla yellowish, 

 \-\ inch long, lobes short and nearly equal. Capsule small, nearly globular. 

 Seeds thickened on the border, but hardly winged. 



On many mountains, principally in central and northern districts. It also 

 occurs in Victoria and New South Wales. Fl. Dec. -Jan. 



2. GOODENIA. 



Calyx -tube connate, at least in the lower part, with the wall of the ovary. 

 Lobes 5. Corolla- tube slit to the base above. Lobes usually oblique, but the two 

 upper ones often curved back, or the flower nearly regular. Stamens 5, free. 

 Ovary 2-celled, but the dissepiment more or less deficient above. Ovules 

 solitary to many in each cell. Frait a capsule. Seeds when numerous disk- 

 shaped, and often winged. 



A purely Australian genus. 



Shrubs or erect perennials. 



Flowers yellow. Seeds many. Leaves broad, 

 denticulate. 

 Shrub. Leaves stalked. Qalyx-lobes long, 



linear ... ... ... ... -.■ ... 1. Q. ovata. 



Perennial or shrubby. Leaves stem-clasping. 



Calyx-lobes short ... ... ... -. 2. 6r. amplexans. 



Flowers blue. Seeds 2. Leaves with revolute 



margins ... ... ... ... ... ... 3. G. harhata. 



Tufted or trailing herbs. Flowers yellow or white. 

 Flowers solitary. Stem elongated. 



Flower-stalk with 2 Lnear bracts ... ... A. G. geniculata. 



Flower- stalk without bracts ... ... ... 6. G. elongata. 



Flowers not solitary. Plant tufted. Leaves 



linear ... ... ... "... ... ... 6. G. humilis. 



1. G. oVATA, /Sm. An erect, spreading, muoh-branched]I shrub, 2-6 feet high. 

 Leaves stalked, narrowly or broadly ovate, denticulate on the margin, 1-2 inches 

 long. Flowers few or many together, on slender stalks in the upper leaf 

 axils. Calyx-tube long, linear, and combined with the ovary throughout its 

 length. . Lobes about as long as the tube, narrow-linear. Corolla yellow, about 

 I inch long. Capsule narrow. Seeds flat, numerous. 



Very common ; also throughout Eastern and Southern Australia. Fl. spring 

 and summer. 



2. G. AMPLEXANS, F. V. M. An erect perennial or under-shrub. Leaves with 

 iDroad stem-clasping bases, narrow-ovate, about 2 inches long, denticulate on the 

 margin. Flowers solitary or few together, on very short stalks in the upper; 



