Scavoia.] LXVII. GOODENOVIE^. 90& 



7. S. angulata (angular), R. Br. Prod. 586; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 92. Tall, 

 erect and branching, glabrous or hirsute, with long spreading hairs. Lower leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire or with a few coarse teeth, usually contracted at the 

 base, but almost sessile, 1 to 2in. long, upper ones sessile, from ovate to lanceolate, 

 entire, rounded or cordate at the base, under lin. long, the floral ones or bracts 

 almost as long as the flowers. Flowers almost sessile, distant, forming an 

 interrupted leafy spike, the lower ones or nearly all distant. Bracteoles lanceo- 

 late, often as long as the bracts. Calyx-limb campanulate, lobes lanceolate. 

 Corolla glabrous outside, about 7 lines long or rather more, with long subulate 

 teeth or soft bristles descending in the throat from the margins of the lobes. 

 Style glabrous or hairy ; indusium ciliate. Ovary 2-celled. — DC. Prod. vii. 

 511 ; Merkusia angulata, De Vr. Gooden. 69. 



Hab.: Islands of the Galf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



8. S. suaveolens (sweet-scented), B. Br. Prod. 585; Benth. Fl. Austr.'w. 

 95. A prostrate or decumbent hard perennial or undershrub, extending some- 

 times in dense masses for several feet, more or less clothed with appressed silky 

 hairs or rarely glabrous. Leaves petiolate, from obovate to oblong-spathulate, 

 quite entire, thick, the larger ones 2 to Sin. long, the upper ones smaller or 

 linear when on elongated branches. Flowers blue, sessile in interrupted 

 terminal hirsute spikes, the bracts oblong-linear, shorter than the flowers, the 

 bracteoles still smaller and linear. Calyx-limb broadly cup-shaped, ciliate, 

 otherwise entire or unequally 5-lobed. Corolla 7 to 8 lines long, villous or 

 rarely nearly glabrous outside, with numerous subulate teeth or soft bristles 

 tipped with minute tufts descending in the throat from the margins of the lobes. 

 Ovary 2-celled. Style slightly hairy. Indusium ciliate, but often on one side 

 only. Drupe when dry ovoid, rugose, 3 lines long ; when fresh, much larger with 

 a succulent exocarp as in 8. Kanigii. — DC. Prod. vii. 510 ; Goodenia calendulacea, 

 Andr. Bot. Eep. t. 22 ; Merkusia suaveolens, De Vr. Gooden. 62. 



Hab.: Near the sea, Sandy Cape, Keppel Bay, Broadsound, &e., R. Brown; Curtis Island, 

 Hetine, Thoiet ; Burdekin Expedition, Fitzalan ; Moreton Island, F. v. Mueller, M'Gillivray ; 

 common on the coastal sands. 



9. S> revoluta (margins of leaves revolute), R. Br. Prod. 586 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 96. An undershrub or spreading shrub of 2 to 3ft., softly villous all 

 over, and sometimes silky. Leaves from obovate-oblong to cuneate or lanceolate, 

 mostly obtuse, flat or with revolute margins, entire, thick and soft, rarely 

 exceeding Jin. and mostly shorter, the upper ones passing gradually into oblong- 

 linear bracts, either as long as or shorter than the flowers. Flowers sessile, in 

 a terminal leafy spike, sometimes short and interrupted at the base, sometimes 

 very much elongated. Calyx-limb obsolete. Corolla nearly -J^in. long, hairy 

 outside. Ovary 2-celled. Style slightly hairy. Indusium ciliate. Fruit small, 

 oblong, rugose, but not seen ripe. — DC. Prod. vii. 510 ; Merkusia revoluta, De Vr. 

 Gooden. 64, partly. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



10. S> ovalifolia (leaves oval) R. Br. Prod. 584 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 96. 

 An erect branching perennial or undershrub, about 1ft. high, usually pubescent, 

 sometimes viscid, rarely almost glabrous, of a pale-green. Lower leaves petio- 

 late, ovate or obovate, coarsely toothed or sometimes entire, 1 to 2in. long 

 besides the petiole, upper ones smaller and more sessile ; floral leaves or bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate or elliptical, leafy but mostly under ^in. long, entire or the 

 lower ones toothed. Flowers sessile, in an interrupted leafy spike. Bracteoles 

 linear or linear-lanceolate. Calyx-lobes exceedingly short, rounded. Corolla 

 pale blue (F.v.M.), about fin. long, glabrous or pubescent outside. Ovary 



