912 LXVII. GOODENOVIEJ;. [Dampiera. 



on their upper surface, mixed on the inflorescence with rather long hairs. 

 Branches terete. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong or lanceolate, thick, entire, 

 flat or concave, the lower ones above 2in. long, the upper ones smaller. Flowers 

 nearly sessile, solitary within each bract, forming long spikes, branching at the 

 base into a pyramidal, leafless panicle. Bracts small, linear or lanceolate ; 

 bracteoles very small. Calyx-tube densely covered with long hairs, the lobes 

 obsolete. Corolla 4 to 5 lines long, covered outside with a stellate tomentum, 

 mixed with longer hairs. Upper lobes of the corolla shorter than the others. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 1 oblong ovule, erect, but attached laterally a little above 

 the base. — Linschotenia discolor, De Vr. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 346 ; Gooden. 

 120. t. 22. 



Hab.: Near Mount Pluto and Mount Faraday, Mitchell. 



The " paracoroUse cueulliformes," by which De Vriese proposed to distloguish this plant 

 generically from Dampiera, are nothing but the auricles of the upper corolla-lobes, one of the 

 principal characters of the whole genus Dampiera. — Benth. 



"^ 2. S. ferruginea (hairs rust-coloured), jR. Br, Prod. 588 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 112. An erect undershrub of 1 to 2ft., clothed with a loose stellate tomentum 

 intermixed with long hairs shortly plumose at the base; branches terete, sulcate. 

 Leaves very shortly petiole, ovate orbicular or rhomboidal, rather rigid, often 

 8-nerved, entire or coarsely toothed, f to IJin. long, becoming glabrous when old, 

 the upper ones sessile and smaller. Peduncles in the upper axils several-flowered, 

 with ovate leaf-like bracts or the peduncles growing out into leafy branches. 

 Flowers blue, almost sessile in the axils of the leafy bracts, densely clothed with 

 loosely stellate hairs and long ones plumose at the base. Calyx-lobes obsolete. 

 Corolla about -J-in. long. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 erect narrow ovule. — DC. Prod, 

 vii. 503 ; De Vr. Gooden. 93. t. 14. 



Hab.: Shoalwater Bay, i?. Brown; dry ridges, Burnett Eiver, F. v. Mueller; Magnetic 

 Island, Burdekin Expedition ; Vox%V)emsoia, Fitzalan; Eoekinghatn Bay, DaZ^acftj/. 



3. D. Brownii (after Robt. Brown), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 29 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 112. A tall shrub, more or less scabrous-pubescent hirsute or almost 

 woolly with stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate, orbicular oval or rarely ovate- 

 lanceolate, thick and often undulate or coarsely sinuate-toothed in the broad- 

 leaved forms, usually quite entire in the oval-leaved varieties, usually from ^ to 

 lin. long, but twice as much when very luxuriant. Peduncles solitary or 

 clustered in the upper axils, sometimes much shorter than the leaves, sometimes 

 especially in the oval-leaved varieties much elongated, and usually bearing an 

 irregular cyme of 3 or more sessile flowers. Bracts minute. Flowers purple or 

 blue, densely clothed with dark-coloured plumose hairs, sometimes very long and 

 spreading, especially in the broad-leaved forms. Calyx-lobes minute and con- 

 cealed under the indumentum or quite obsolete. Corolla usually about ^in. long. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 1 erect narrow ovule. Fruit oblong, nearly 2 lines long, 

 transversely rugose. Seed nearly terete. — D. undulata, D. rotundifolia, D. 

 ovalifolia, and D. purpurea, E. Br. Prod. 587, 588 ; DC. Prod. vii. 503 ; De Vr. 

 Gooden. 84 to 86, 93; D. omissa, De Vr. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 10; D. 

 melanopogon, De Vr. Gooden. 87; D. nervosa, De Vr. in Ned. Eruidk. Arch. ii. 

 12, Gooden. 92 ; D. bicolor, De Vr. Gooden. 89, from the characters in Ned. 

 Kruidk. Arch. ii. 11. 



Hab.: Southern localities. 



4. D. Stricta (upright), R. Br. Prod. 589; Bent/i. Fl. Austr. iv. 115. A 

 rigid perennial, nearly glabrous except the inflorescence, the young sho ots rarely 

 stellate-pubescent. Stems broadly angular or compressed, erect or rarely 

 decumbent. Leaves sessile, the lower ones sometimes broadly obovate or 

 cuneate, but mostly oblong or linear, from J to IJin. long, flat, rigid, entire or 



