SccBvola.] LXVII. GOODENOVIEiE. 911 



glabrous, ciliate. Fruit small, usually 1 -seeded. — R. Br. Prod. 585; DC. Prod, 

 vii. 609 ; Goodenia alhida, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soo. ii. 348 ; G. lavigata, Curt. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 287 ; Merlama microcarpa, De Vr. Gooden. 55. 

 Hab.; Ta'campa, and other southern localities. 



7. DAMPIERA, R. Br. 



(After William Dampier.) 

 (Linschotenia, De Vr.) 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; lobes 5, very small, often concealed under 

 the indumentum or quite obsolete. Corolla-tube deeply slit on the upper side, 

 but usually entire and persistent at the base, the remainder circumsciss and 

 deciduous, 2 upper lobes deeply separated, unequally winged, erect and conni- 

 vent, enclosing the summit of the style in 2 thick concave auricles, one on the 

 outer side of each lobe below the wing, the 3 lower lobes broadly winged and 

 spreading. Anthers cohering in a tube round the style. Ovary 1 -celled, with 1 

 erect or ascending straight or recurved ovule, rarely 2-celled with 1 erect ovule 

 in each cell ; indusium somewhat 2-lipped, not ciliate. Fruit small and 

 indehiscent. Seeds variously shaped ; testa rather thin ; embryo in the centre of 

 the albumen. — Herbs undershrubs or shrubs ; the indumentum usually stellate or 

 branched, .cottony or woolly. Leaves entire or obtusely toothed or sinuate. 

 Flowers purple blue or white, rarely yellow, the margins of the corolla-lobes 

 undulate below the wings and forming prominent lines deeurrent inside the tube. 

 Peduncles simple or irregularly (mostly cymosely) branched, solitary or clustered 

 in the upper axils or the nearly sessile flowers forming terminal spikes. 



The genus is limited to Australia. It is a natural one, readily known by the peculiar auricles 

 of the upper corolla-lobes and coherent anthers combined with the solitary ovules. Several 

 Goodenias have indeed aurioulate upper corolla-lobes, but the auricles are never so conspicuously 

 concave and thick as in Dampiera, and they have always free anthers and a capsular fruit. 

 One species of Sccevola has a uniovulate ovary, and in two Dampiera it is 2-celled and 

 2-ovulate, but the two genera are very distirct in their corolla and anthers. — Benth. 



The indumentum in Dampiera is almost always more or less stellate, and in many species 

 normally so. Where ihe hairs appear long and simple they are usually stellate or with short 

 crowded branches at the base, with One branch long and simple ; where they are long and 

 plumose the branches are scattered along the main ones, but yet often more crowded at the 

 base, where the hairs appear strigose and appressed, the bi anches are few, stellate in principle, 

 but parallel and divaricate in opposite directions or reduced to a single centrally attached 

 (2-branched) hair. — Benth. 



Sect. I. Ziinschotenia. — Flowers sessile' or shortly pedicellate, in terminal, leafless, simple 

 or branched spikes or racemes. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 oblong ovule laterally attached above the 

 base. — Plants tomentose or woolly. 



Spikes branched. Leaves oblong or lanceolate 1. D. Linschotenii. 



, Sect. II. Eudainplera.. — Peduncles axillary or terminal, solitary or clustered, 1-flowered 

 or irregularly cymose. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 linear or oblong ovule, erect from, the base. 



Leaves flat or with recurved margins, stellate-tomentose underneath or rarely 

 glabrous, orbicular, ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Hairs of the flowers 

 plumose. Erect shrubs or undershrubs. 



Bracts ovate, leafy 2. D. feiruginea. 



Bracts minute S. D. Brownii. 



Leaves rigid, flat, sessile, oblong or linear, glabrous when full grown. 



Hairs of the flowers rigidly appressed, with parallel branches. Stems 



angular. Caryx-teeth prominent. Corolla-hairs usually f .'rruginous . . 4. D. stricta. 

 Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or lanceolate. Calyx-teeth prominent .' . 5. D. adpressa. 

 Leaves rigid, acute, flat, or concave. Flowe; s glabrous. Stems prostrate. 



Calyx-teeth prominent 6. D. diversifolia. 



1. 1>, Iiinschotenii (after J. H. Linschoten), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 28 ; Berith. 

 Fl, Austr. iv. 108. Probably a tall undershrub, erect, clothed with a soft, 

 white cotton, very dense on the stems and under side of the leaves, disappearing 



