Velleia.] LXVII. GOODENOVlEiE. ^^ 



base, the summit free within the corolla-tube, nearly 1-celled, divided only at the 

 very base or rarely to the middle into 2 imperfect cells. Style simple ; indusium 

 usually large, closed and almost folded when the flower expands. Capsule quite 

 free from the calyx-lobes, equally 4-valved, or rarely 2-valved with entire or 

 2-cleft valves. Seeds of Goodenia, flat with a callous or winged margin. — Herbs, 

 with a short thick stock and radical leaves, or in one species forming a 

 thick, branching, leafy stem. Scapes erect or ascending, dichotomously or 

 trichotomously-branched, many-flowered. Bracts opposite, free or connate. 

 Flowers yellow, like those of Goodenia. 



The species are all Australian. The genus is very nearly allied to Goodenia, but differs 

 constantly in the free calyx and peculiar diohotomous inflorescence. — Benth. 



Bracts large, broad, connate. Sepals S, ovate, connate at the base .... 1. K. connata, 

 Bracts distinct or very shortly united at the base. 

 Sepals 5, distinct or nearly so, obtuse, 4 to 6 lines long. Flowers rather 



large. Corolla frequently spurred. Capsule not exceeding the calyx . 2. V. paradoxa. 

 Sepals 3, distinct or nearly so. Upper lobes of the corolla deeply separate. 

 Scapes longer than the leaves. 

 Glabrous. Uepals ovate-lanceolate, obliquely cordate and shortly deour- 



rent S, V. macrocalyx. 



Villous. Sepals broadly ovate, not cordate i. V. pubescent. 



Glabrous. Sepals oblong-lanceolate 5. V. spathulata. 



1. V. connata (bracts united), F. v. M. in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 162, and 

 in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 18 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 46. Glabrous and 

 glaucous. Badical leaves petiolate, obovate-oblong and toothed (Herb. Hook.) or 

 oblong-spathulate and entire (Herb. F. v. M.), 2 to Sin. long. Stem tall, 

 dichotomous, with large broad connate entire or toothed bracts at the forks. 

 Sepals 5, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the outer one fully 4 lines long, 

 the others smaller, usually connate at the base. Corolla 7 to 8 lines long, the 

 lower lobes not winged (or the wings destroyed in the specimens seen ?), the 

 upper ones winged on one side and slightly ciliate. Capsule about 3 lines 

 diameter. Seeds about 1 line diameter, including the wing. 



Hub.: Inland, near border of N.S.W. 



2. V, paradoxa (contradictory), R. Br. Prod. 580; Benth. Fl. Austr, iy. 

 48. Glabrous, pubescent or hirsute. Leaves radical, petiolate, from broadly 

 obovate and under 2in. to narrow-oblong and above 4in. long, coarsely toothed 

 or almost entire, sometimes almost lyrate. Scapes ascending or erect, J to IJft. 

 high, dichotomously or trichotomously branched. Bracts opposite at the forks, 

 free, the lower ones sometimes ovate and deeply lobed at the base, the upper 

 ones small, linear and entire. Sepals 5, free, oblong-linear or lanceolate or the 

 outer larger one ovate-lanceolate and sometimes 6 lines long, the others smaller. 

 Corolla yellow, pubescent outside, the hollow protuberance of the tube usually 

 produced into a spur, sometimes 4 lines long, sometimes very small or obsolete ; 

 lobes all winged, the 2 upper ones separate much lower than the others. Indu- 

 sium very large. Capsule shorter than the outer sepals. Seeds broadly winged. 

 —DC. Prod. vii. 518 ; De Vr. Gooden. 172 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 233 ; Bot. 

 Reg. t. 971. 



Hab.: Dawson River, F. v. Mueller; Port Curtis, M'GilUvray ; plains of the Condamine, 

 Leichhardt; Ipswich, Nernst; Warwick, Beckler ; Herberton, J. F. Bailey. 



Var. stenoptera, F. v. M. More divaricate ; flowers rather smaller ; spur very small or none ; 

 seeds with a very narrow or scarcely any wing. The spur of the corolla disappears also some- 

 times on the common southern form, and is always variable in size. — Benth. Hab.: Between 

 Stanthorpe and the border of N.S.W. 



3. V. noiacrocalyx (long calyx), De Vr. Gooden. 176. t. 34 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 49. Glabrous except a little wool at the base of the leaves and the 

 inflorescence sometimes slightly pubescent. Rootstook often thick and elongated. 

 Leaves radical, petiolate, obovate-oblong or spathulate, often several inches long, 



