906 LXVII. GOODENOVIE^. [Catosperma. 



1. C IVZuelleri (after Baron von Mueller), Benth. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1028; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 83. A glabrous perennial, the stems procumbent or 

 ascending, 1 to l|ft. long. Leaves petiolate, ovate or obovate, irregularly 

 toothed, the larger ones above lin. long without the petiole. Peduncles usually 

 bearing 3 flowers on rather long pedicels, the central one without bracteoles, the 

 lateral ones with two minute bracteoles below the middle. Calyx-tube about 

 1^ line long; lobes shorter, linear-lanceolate. Corolla about ^in. long, glabrous 

 outside, slightly pubescent inside. Style glabrous or nearly so. Fruit, according 

 to F. V. Mueller, 3 to 4 lines long.^SccBvola goodeniacea, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 121. 



Hab.: Thomson Biver, C. W. de Burgh-Birch. 



6. SC^VOLA, Linn. 

 (From scaiva, the left hand ; form of corolla.) 

 (Pogonetes, Lindl; TemmiDokia, Kamphusia, Ciossotoma, Molkenbceria, and Merkus'a, De Vr.j 

 Calyx-tube adnate, limb usually very short, annular eup-sbaped or of 5 distinct 

 segments, sometimes obsolete. Corolla oblique, the tube slit open to the base 

 on the upper side, the lobes nearly equal or the upper ones shorter, usually at 

 length digitately expanding. Stamens free. Ovary wholly inferior or rarely 

 the summit free, 2-c6lled with 1 erect ovule in each cell or 1-eelled with 1 or 2 

 erect ovules. Style undivided .^ indusiiim cup-shaped, enclosing the truncate or 

 divaricately 2-lobed stigma. Fruit indehiscent, with a more or less succulent or 

 thin and membranous exoearp, and a hard woody or bony rarely thin and 

 crustaceous endocarp. Seeds 1 in each cell, erect, albuminous, embryo usually 

 terete and as long as the albumen, or rarely the cotyledons broader than the' 

 radicle.— Herbs undershrubs or shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers solitary 

 between 2 bracteoles, sessile or pedunculate in the axils of the leaves or subtending 

 bracts or the peduncles dichotomously branched, with a flower in each fork. 

 Indumentum simple or stellate, the hairs outside the corolla usually reversed, the 

 tube of the corolla always more or less villous inside, the lobes at their base 

 sometimes fringed with long teeth or bristles often tipped with a minute white 

 tuft, and continued more or less into the tube down the lines of junction of the 

 petals. 



Out of Australia there are several species in the islands of the Pacific, and 2 maritime one^ 

 (one of them Auglralian) are widely diffused over the warmer seacoasts of the new as well as 

 the Old World ; the remaining Australian species are all endemic. — Benth. 



, Sect. I. Sarcocarpaea. — Shrubs. Leaves usually large with woolly axils. Flowers in 

 lateral or axillary dichotomous cymes. Exoearp usually very succulent. 



Leaves obovate. Calyx-lobes oblong or linear 1. S. Kanigii. 



Leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate and remotely denticulate. Calyx- 

 lobes recurved, lanceolate-linear, long as the tube 2. S. enantophylla. 



Leaves opposite, ovate, 3 to 4in. long, remotely clentioulate. Calyx-lobes 

 erect, lanceolate 3. S. scandens. 



Sect. II. Crossotoma. — Shrtibs. Flowers solitary on short slender axillary peduncles. 

 Bracteoles very small, free or none. Leaves entire. Leaves linear-cuneate 



obovate or ovate, crowded or clustered on short branchlets or nodes . . i. S. spinescens. 



Sect. III. Pog'onanthera. — Herbs or undershrubs. Peduncles or pedicels axillary, 

 1-flowered or the lower ones bearing a didiotomous cyme of 3 or more flowers or rarely flowers 

 sessile on leafless nodes. Anthers in the first species tipped with a minute tuft of hairs. 

 Decumbent diffuse herb. Leaves, at least the lower ones, toothed; Wings 



of the corolla-lobes veinless. Peduncles mostly as long as or longer 



than the leaves. Anthers penicillate. Corolla-wings broad .... 5. S. hispida. 

 Plant hirsute erect and much-branched. Leaves narrow, entire, or reduced 



to scales. Anthers not penicillate 6. S. pa tvi folia. 



Sect. IV. Xerocarpiea. — Herbs undershrubs or shrubs. Flowers sessile or nearly so in the 

 axils of floral leaves or bracts, all oj- the tipper ones forming a terminal dense or interrupted arid 

 leafy spike. 



