dbS LXVll. GOObENOVIE^. [Scmrola. 



8. S. scandens (referring to the climbing habit of plant), Bail. 3rd Suppl. 

 Syn. Ql. Fl. 43. A large climbing plant, rambling over the surrounding shrubs 

 to the height of 10 or 12ft. Leaves opposite, bordered with sharp, distant small 

 teeth, ovate, 3 or 4in. long, with narrow elongated apex and short petiole. 

 Flowers solitary, or 2 or 3 on a short peduncle. Calyx-tube about 2 lines long, 

 with minute teeth. Corolla fin. long, split open on one side to the base, the 

 inside lined with woolly hairs, the outside glabrous and purplish, except the wavy 

 edges, which are bright-yellow. Stamens scarcely exceeding the corolla-tube in 

 length. Style narrowly winged, shortly incurved at the top ; indusium hairy on 

 the back, besides the dense ring of silky-white hairs surrounding the cup. Fruit 

 not seen. 



Hab.: Bellenden Ker, at about 3000ft. 



Although in habit and a few minor distinctions S. scandens would seem to differ from 5. 

 enantophylla, probably when better known they may prove to be identical. 



4. S. spinescens (branchlets spine-like), R. Br. Prod. 586 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 87. A rigid, scrubby shrub of several feet, glabrous or hoary-tomen- 

 tose, the short branchlets often but not always converted into short, simple or 

 branched spines. Leaves often clustered on short branchlets or nodes, obovate, 

 spathulate, oblong or linear, obtuse, entire, thick, under ^in. when broad, some- 

 times near lin. long when narrow. Flowers few or solitary in the clusters of 

 leaves, the peduncles slender, but rarely as long as the leaves. Bracteoles small, 

 narrow-linear. Calyx-limb exceedingly short, annular, truncate. Corolla white, 

 6 to 8 lines long, tomentose or glabrous outside. Indusium ciliate. Ovary 

 2-celled. Drupe ovoid, rather large, with a bony endocarp, and thick, succulent 

 mesocarp. Seeds with a large embryo and very little albumen. — DC. Prod. vii. 

 512 ; S. oleoides and S. lycioides, DC. I.e.; Pogonetes spinescens, Lindl. Introd. 

 Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 448 ; Crossotoma spinescens, C. oleoides:, and C. lycioides, De Vr. 

 Gooden. 86 to 38. 



Hab.: Bokhara Creek, Leichhardt ; between Thomaon and Flinders Eivers, Sutherland; on 

 the Maranoa, Mitchell ; Armadilla, W. Barton. 



5. S. hispida (hispid). Car. Ic. vi. 7 t. 510; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 90. 

 Herbaceous, apparently annual, scabrous-pubescent or hirsute with spreading 

 hairs, the stems erect or branching at the base, 1 to 2ft. high. Leaves linear 

 or lanceolate and sessile or the lower ones narrow-oblong, and contracted into a 

 petiole, entire or the broader ones remotely toothed, the larger ones 2 or Sin. 

 long, the upper ones smaller. Peduncles axillary, as long as or longer than the 

 leaves, 1 -flowered or the lower ones bearing 3 or sometimes a cyme of several 

 flowers. Bracteoles leafy, linear. Calyx-lobes linear, much longer than the 

 tube. Corolla f to lin. long, the wings of the lobes broad, but without trans- 

 verse veins. Anthers tipped with a tuft of minute bristles. Indusium densely 

 hairy on the back at the base, the margin ciliate. Ovary 2-celled. Drupe 

 oblong, about 8 lines loiig. Seeds oblong, the embryo nearly terete. — E. Br. 

 Prod. 586 ; DC. Prod. vii. '511 ; Goodenia ramosissima, Sm. in Tr. Linn. Soo. 

 ii. 849, and Specim. Bot. Nov. HoU. t. 5 ; Merkmia hispida, De Vr. Gooden. 62. 



Hab.: Near Brisbane, W. Hill; Helidon and other southern localities. 



6. S. parvifolia (leaves small), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 90. 

 An erect, much branched, villous herb or un,dershrub, the specimens all under 

 1ft. high. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear, obtuse, the longest under ^in. and 

 mostly reduced to small bracts. Flowers solitary on rigid, axillary peduncles 

 of |in. or more. Bracteoles very small. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, shorter than 

 the tube. Corolla about ^in. long, hairy outside; wings of the lobes narrow. 

 Anthers with a small, glabrous point. Ovary 2-celled. Style hairy; indusium 

 nearly glabrous, ciliate. 



Hab.: Thomson fiiver, C. W. de Burgh-Bireh. 



