892 LXVII. GOODENOVlE^. [Leschenaukia. 



angular ; testa thick and hard, sometimes almost bony ; embryo from half as 

 long to nearly as long as the albumen. — Herbs undershrubs or shrubs. Leaves 

 narrow-linear, entire, scattered or crowded and heath-like. Flowers either 

 solitary and terminal or leaf-opposed or several in compact, leafy terminal 

 corymbs, blue, white, yellow, red or greenish. 



The genus is limited to Australia, and is readily known as well by the habit as by the in- 

 dusium, ovary, and iimt.^—Benth. 



Sect. I. Xiatourla. — Capsule ending in a slender seedless indehiscent beak. Leaves or 

 scales distant ; flowers solitary and terminal or leaf-opposed. 

 Leaves all reduced to small scales. Branches rigid, intricate, divaricate . 1. L. divaricata. 



Leaves and stems filiform. Capsule pedicellate 2. i. filiformis. 



Leaves linear, acute, slightly flattened. Stems filiform. Capsule sessile . 3. L. agrostophylla. 



1. !■• divaricata (divaricate), F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 33, 167 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 43. Summits of the plant leafless, rigid, flexuose, intricately branched, the 

 leaves replaced by small, oblong-linear, distant scales. Flowers sessile, terminal 

 or opposite the scales. Calyx-tubes 2 to 3 lines long, the lobes narrow, about 

 half as long. Corolla yellow {F. v. Mueller), 6 to 8 lines long, ihe lobes about 

 as long as the tube, all narrow and expanded, the 3 lower ones winged, the two 

 upper ones lanceolate-falcate, not winged. Fruit often above lin. long, ripening 

 but very few large, thick seeds, and contracted into a neck at the top, and also 

 between the seeds. 



Hab.: Towards Cooper's Creek. 



2. !■. filiformis (stems thread-like), R. Br. Prod. 581 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 44. An annual or perennial, with filiform, slightly branched stems of i to 

 1ft. Leaves distant, filiform, | to lin. long. Flowers blue (R. Br.), terminal or 

 leaf-opposed, very shortly pedicellate. Calyx-tube long and slender, the lobes 

 short and subulate. Corolla ^in. long or rather more, the 3 lower lobes as long 

 as the tube, with broadly oblong, erect, almost parallel virings, leaving a deep 

 sinus between them, tlie margins of the lobes very undulate below the wings, 

 the 2 upper lobes separated much lower down, and winged on one side only. 

 Capsule slender, about lin. long when perfect, the upper half consisting of a 

 slender, filiform beak. Seeds cylindrical or angular, truncate, the testa not 

 quite so hard as in other species.— DC. Prod. vii. 519 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 9 ; 

 PI. xlviii.; Latouria Jiliformis, De Vr. Gooden. 187. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Shoalwater Bay passage, R. Brown; Bookingham 

 Bay, Dallachy. 



3. Ii. agrostophylla (Grass-leaved), F. v. M.. Fragm. vi. 8.; PI. xlvii.; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 44. An erect annual, very closely allied to L. filiformis, 

 and probably only a variety, the leaves are rather broader and flatter, the capsule 

 not so slender, and usually sessile. 



Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller. 



Without fuller sets of specimens, I have been unwilling to unite this -with L. filiformis ; but 

 Brown's Carpentaria Island specimens appear to me to .be intermediate between F. v. Mueller's 

 and those from Queensland.— BenSft. 



2. VELLEIA, Sm. 



(In honor of Major Velley.) 



(Euthales, R. Br.) 



Calyx free from the ovary, consisting of 8 or 5 sepals, either distinct or 



connate in a campanulate tube at the base. Corolla oblique, the tube adnate to 



the ovary at the base, with a hollow protuberance sometimes produced into a 



spur, the upper part split on the upper side nearly or quite to the ovary, the 2 



upper lobes separate lower down, unequally winged and auriculate, or rarely all 



equal and equally winged. Stamens free. Ovary adnate to the corolla at the 



