914 LXVII. GOODENOVIB^. [Brunmia. 



in the hardened calyx-tube. Seed erect, without albumen. Embryo straight, 

 cotyledons ovate, radicle short, inferior. — Silky-hairy perennial. Leaves radical. 

 Flowers in a dense head, intermixed with bracts, on a leafless scape. 



The genus is limited to a single species endemic in Australia. E. Brown appears to me to 

 have been quite right in including it in Goodenoviea, of which it has the remarkable indusium. 

 It has since been raised into an independent Order, on account of the free ovary, regular 

 flowers, and exalbuminous seed, and has even been removed far away from Goodenoviea to the 

 neighbourhood of Plumbaginece. The ovary and fruit are, however, so completely enclosed in the 

 constricted calyx-tube as to be really less free than in Lobelia xalapensis, the exceptioually 

 regular flowers are but little more so than in Diaspasis, and in some species of Sccevola, 

 especially S. spinescens, I have found the albumen much reduced. The habit of Bninonia is 

 also so little different from that ot Dampiera eriocephala, that I have seen the latter placed in 

 covers of Bnmania as a new species. — Benth. 



1. B. australis (Australian), 8m.. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 367. t. 28 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr, iv. 121. A tufted perennial, clothed in every part with long silky 

 hairs closely appressed in some specimens, more frequently more or less 

 spreading. Leaves radical, from obovate to linear-cuneate, quite entire, softly 

 mucronate, contracted into a petiole, mostly 2 to 4in. long. Scapes 6in. to 

 above 1ft. high, bearing a dense globular or hemispherical flower-head of f to 

 fin. diameter. Flowers numerous, sessile, intermixed with bracts of which a 

 few of the outer ones are broad and leafy though not longer than the flowers, 

 forming a kind of involucre, the inner ones small and narrow, ciliate with long 

 hairs ; there are also close around each flower 8 or 4 concave truncate but jagged 

 and ciliate bracts of which at least the 2 innermost are scarious and transparent. 

 Calyx-tube very short, the lobes 1^ to 2 lines long, pluniose-ciliate, almost 

 always tipped with a glabrous pedicellate gland. Corolla blue, the tube linear, 

 hirsute, shorter than the calyx-lobes, the lobes oblong, glabrous, about as long as 

 the tube. Fruit small.— K. Br. Prod. 590 ; A. DC. Prod. xii. 616 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 229 ; Bot. Eeg. t, 1838 ; Paxt. Mag. vii. 267, with a fig. ; B. sericea, 

 Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 867. t. 29 ; E. Br. Prod. 690 ; A. DC. Prod. xii. 

 616 ; B. simplex, Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 82. 



Hab.: Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Keppel Islands, M'Gillivray; Kookhampton, Thozet ; 

 Darling Downs, H. Lav, ; Mount Pluto, Mltchdl ; common on sandy kuols. 



The two forms commonly distinguished as a species pass into one another very gradually. 

 Where the indumentum is more silky and shorter, the glabrous tips of the calyx-lobes are 

 prominent, and these specimens have usually smaller flower-heads. Where the hairs are longer 

 the tips are concealed amongst them, and perhaps sometimes, but very rarely, disappear 

 altogether ; the fornler state is most common in the noi them disti lots, the latter in the southern 

 ones, but intermediate ones are also very frequent. — Benth. 



Order LXVIII. CAMPANULACEiE. 



Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb of 8 to 10, usually 5, persistent 

 lobes. Corolla regular or irregular, with 8 to 10, usually 5, lobes, valvate in 

 the bud, the margins often induplicate. Stamens as many as the lobes of the 

 corolla, alternate with them, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, but free 

 from or very rarely more or less adpate to it. Anthers openi:ng longitudinally, 

 free or united in a ring round the style. Ovary inferior or rarely semisuperior 

 or free except the broad base, 2 or more-celled, with numerous ovules in each 

 cell. Style simple, entire or divided at the top into as many stigmatic lobes or 

 branches as there are cells to the ovary. Fruit usually a capsule, opening either 

 in short valves at the top or in lateral pores or slits, rarely an indehiscent berry. 

 Seeds numerous, small. Embryo straight, often very small, in. a fleshy albumen. 

 — Herbs or very rarely shrubs, with a juice usually milky. Leaves alternate or 

 very rarely opposite, usually undivided and toothed, rarely deeply pinnatifid, 



