Dnmpiera.] LXVII. GOODENOVIE^. 913 



coarsely angular- toothed. Flowers blue, solitary or irregularly clustered in the 

 upper axils, densely covered with appressed usually rust-coloured hairs apparently 

 simple but really branched or stellate at the base, with divaricate and parallel 

 branches. Pedicels usually very short, the bracts and bracteoles rigid, linear or 

 lanceolate. Calyx-lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, generally prominent, although 

 covered with the hairs of the tube. Corolla rarely under ^in. long and sometimes 

 7 or 8 lines, the persistent base very short. Ovary 1- celled, with 1 straight 

 ovule erect from the base. — DC. Prod. vii. 504; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 230; De 

 Vr. Gooden. 109 (but in all these only the Eastern plant) ; D. fascicidata, DC. 

 Prod. vii. 504, De Vr. Gooden. 105 (as to the Port Jackson plant) ; Goodenia 

 strieta, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 849. 



Hab.: Glasshouse Mountains, F. v. Mueller; other southern localities. 



Yax. oblongata. Leaves usually oblong, entire or nearly so, 1 to 2in. long. Indumentum of 

 the flowers looser and darker. — D. oblongata, E. Br. Prod. 588; DC. Prod. vii. 504; De Vr. 

 Gooden. 106, partly. Hab.: Stanthorpe. 



5. D. adpressa (hairs pressed close to the stem and leaves), A. Cunn.; DC. 

 Prod. vii. 503 ; Benth. Fl, Austr. iv. 119. An undershrub, with a thick stock, 

 and several erect, simple or slightly-branched stems of 1 to 2ft., clothed when 

 young as well as the leaves with a close, white, almost floecose tomentum, which 

 dissapears from the adult leaves. Leaves very shortly petiolate, ovate or 

 lanceolate, acute or rarely obtuse, entire or obscurely toothed, coriaceous, rather 

 thick, smooth, and quite flat, ^ to lin. long. Peduncles axillary, rarely exceeding 

 the leaves, 2 or 3-flowered. Bracts small, linear. Flowers rather small, clothed 

 with a dense, stellate or woolly tomentum, mixed with long, almost simple hairs. 

 Calyx-lobes oblong-linear, sometimes rather long, but apparently deciduous, and 

 much concealed by the indumentum. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 straight ovule erect 

 from the base. — 1>. lanceolata, De Vr. Gooden. 101 t. 17. 



Hab.: Cape Eiver, Bowman; Thermometer Creek, Leichhardt. 



6. D. diversifolia (leaves various in form), De Vr. in PL Preiss. i. 408 ; 

 Gooden. 117 ; Bmth. Fl. Austr. iv. 119. A prostrate perennial or undershrub, 

 extending sometimes to a considerable breadth, with numerous short, dense, 

 leafy branches, quite glabrous in every part. Radical-leaves oblong-spathulate 

 or oblanceolate, 1 to l^in. long, all the others lanceolate, oblanceolate or linear, 

 rarely above ^in. long, coriaceous, acute, entire, or minutely toothed, often 

 concave like those of EpacridetB. Flowers blue, differing from all other species 

 in being quite glabrous outside, on short, axillary peduncles or branchlets, with 

 1 or 2 leaves and a pair of bracteoles close under the flower. Calyx-lobes ovate- 

 triangular, shorter than the persistent base of the corolla. Corolla about fin. 

 long. Ovary 1-celled, with 1 straight ovule erect from the base. — Scavola 

 prostrata, De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 406. 



Hab.: Queensland (without locality), F. v. Mueller. 



8. BRUNONIA, Sm. 



(After Robert Brown.) 



Calyx- tube free but contracted over the ovary ; lobes 5. Corolla nearly 

 regular, inserted at the base of the calyx-tube, the tube cylindrical ; lobes 5, 

 valvate, spreading, the 2 upper ones separated rather lower down. Stamens 5, 

 inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, the filaments cohering upwards, the 

 anthers cohering in a ring round the style. Ovary free, but enclosed in the calyx- 

 tube, 1-oelled, with a single erect anatropous ovule. Style simple ; stigma 

 shortly 2-lobecl, enclosed in a cup-shaped indusium. Fruit a small nut enclosed 



