Sccevola.] LXVII. GOODENOYIEJE. 967 



Skbies I. Crlohviliterse. —Ova)-y 2-celled. Hairs on the back of the indusium short or few 

 or scattered. Flowers rather large (usually blue), witlt rows of soft bristles or subulate teeth 

 tipped u-ith miuuti- white tufts descending in the throut from the margins of the lobes. 



Glabrous or rarely with long spreading hairs at the base of the stem.' 

 Leaves mostly sessile, ovate oblong or broadly lanceolate, entire . . • 7. 5'. angulata. 



Villous with appressed hairs or almost glabrous. Stems decumbent. 

 Leaves thick, entire, the lower ones obovate 8. S. suaveolens. 



Sekiiss II. macrostachySB. — Ovary 2-celled. Hairs on the hack of the indusium short or 

 few or scattered. Flowers usually smaller than in iftf GlobuliferiB (white?), with very few or no 

 penicillate bristles within the throat. Fruiting spikes usually continuous with small bracts. 



Branching tomentose-villous shrub. Leaves small, entire, mostly sessile . 9. S. revoluta. 

 Somewhat viscid shrub. Leaves petiolate, broad, toothed, ovate or obovate. 

 Bracts ovate or elliptical. Fruit ovoid 10. S. ovalifolia. 



Sehies III. Pog'og'jrnes. — Ovary 2-ceUed. Indusium with a dense tuft of hairs at the base 

 on the back as long as the indusium itself. 



Leaves mostly petiolate or narrowed at the base. 



Lower leaves obovate, toothed. Stem usually decumbent 11. S. cemula. 



Leaves small, entire, thick. Small erect undershrub 12. S. amblyantliera 



Sekies IV. IKEonospermse. — Ovary 1-celled, 2-ovulate. Fruit usually 1-seeded. 



Flowers in terminal interrupted leafy spikes. 



Leaves thick, 6 to 15 lines long, deeply and irregularly lobed, the lobes 



with gland-like tips . . 13. S. laciniata. 



Leaves obovate or oblong, toothed Indusium glabrous or shortly hairy 



on the back . . . . . . 14. S. microcarpa. 



1. S. Koenigii (after J. G. Koenig), Vahl. Synib. iii. 36 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 86. An erect shrub, with a thick, almost succulent stem, the branches, 

 leaves, and inflorescence either silky-pubescent or nearly glabrous, but always 

 with a tuft of long, silky or woolly hairs in the axils. Leaves obovate-oblong, 

 3 to 5in. long, rounded and very obtuse at the top, entire or rarely broadly 

 crenate, narrowed at the base into a very short petiole. Cymes axillary, very 

 much shorter than the leaves. Bracts small. Calyx-lobes oblong-linear, very 

 variable in length, but usually as long as or longer than the tube. Corolla about 

 fin. long, more or less pubescent outside, the wings of the lobes narrow. Ovary 

 2-celled. Drupe ovoid or nearly globular, the endocarp bony, near 4 lines long, 

 the exocarp succulent. — R. Br. Prod. 588 ; DC. Prod. vii. 505 ; Hook, and 

 Thorns, in Journ. Linn. See. ii. 8 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2782 ; 8. Taccada, Koxb. ; 

 Wight, lUustr. t. 137; S. sericca, Forst.; Br. Prod. 588; DC. Prod. vii. 506 ; 

 S. Lobelia, De Vr. in Kruidk. Arch. ii. 20 and Gooden. 20 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 198; S. macrocalyx, De Vr. Gooden. 26 t. 3; S. chlorantha, De Vr. I.e. 27; 

 S. Lambertiana, De Vr. I.e. 28 ; S. montana, Labill. Sert. Austr. Calid. 41 t. 42. 



Hab.: Along the tropical seacoast ; Palm Island, Banks and Solander ; Endeavour Strait, Low 

 Island, and Northumberland Islands (the latter with smaller leaves crenate at the end), R. 

 Brown; Escape Cliffs, HuZJs ; Port Denison, FteaZam; Edgecombe Bay, DaMac/sj/. A common 

 shrub of the tropical coastal sands. 



2. S. enantophylla (leaves opposite), F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 58. A 

 procumbent plant with distant pairs of leaves ; branohefe terete, prominently striate. 

 Leaves ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to Sin. long, f to l|^in. broad, paler 

 green beneath, the margins with small distant teeth. Petioles from 1^ to 3 lines 

 long. Peduncles axillary, 1^ to 6 lines long, bearing from 1 to 3 flowers. 

 Pedicels very short or wanting. Calyx-lobes (recurved in my Johnstone Eiver 

 specimens) linear, long as the tube, which is ribbed. Corolla glabrous outside ; 

 lobes about 8 lines long, with narrow fimbriated yellow wings, the tube above 

 the middle bearded with white hairs. Filaments about 2 lines long, glabrous. 

 Anthers oblong, about 1 line long. Style 3 lines, glabrous. Indusium bearded 

 on the back lyith white hairs ; border shortly and densely oiliate. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules erect from the base of the cells. — S. oppositifolia, F. v. M. 

 Fragm. vi. 225. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy ; Johnston Eiver, Dr. T. L. Bancroft. 



