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axillares uniflori 1 mm. longi vel sub fructu ad 2 mm. longi. Ovarium 
oblongum, 2 mm. longum. Sepala lanceolata ovario aequilonga. Corolla 
flava (Flecker), in sieco in specimine Tatei pallida et purpureo-venosa, 
extus pilis longis sparsis obsita, ca. 6 mm. longa ; lobi 3 inferiores apicem 
versus alis instrueti, lobi 2 superiores profunde separati inaequaliter 
alati. Staminum lilamenta tenuia; antheris oblongis minutis 
minutissime apiculatis. Capsula oblonga, 5 mm. longa, sepalis 2 mm. 
longis coronata; semina in quoque loculo 1, rugulosa, margine valde 
incrassata instructa. 
Northern Territory. — Pine Creek, R. Tate (type: National 
Herbarium, Melbourne). 
Queensland. — Cook District: Iron Range, H. Flecker (fls.), April 
1944 (herb, fls. yellow) (N.Q. Nat. Club No. 8565). 
According to Krause’s Monograph of the Goodeniaceae (Pflanzenr. 
IV. 277) the present plant comes nearest to G. sepalosa F. Muell. and 
between that species and G. hispida R. Br. The three can be 
distinguished as follows: — 
Herbs, more or less densely hispid, not at all glandular. 
Leaves usually dentate, tapering into a petiole at the base, 
peduncles shorter than the leaves or almost as long; 
sepals leafy, longer than the ovary . . . . . . G. sepalosa 
As above, but peduncles very short or flowers sessile . . G. sepalosa 
var. bracliypoda 
Leaves usually dentate or lobed, sessile, base subauriculate ; 
peduncles short, 1-2 mm.; sepals lanceolate as long as 
the ovary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. subauriculata 
Leaves usually entire, lower ones petiolate, upper ones 
sessile; peduncles exceeding the cauline leaves; sepals 
subulate., barely as long as the ovary . . . . . . G. hispida 
Dr. Flecker’s specimen was forwarded to the National Herbarium, 
Melbourne, for comparison with type material of G. sepalosa F. Muell. 
and its variety hrachypoda. The Director, Mr. A. W. Jessep, reported 
that it differed from G. sepalosa F. Muell. in the stem-clasping foliage, 
much smaller flowers and smaller calyx, not large and “leafy”, but that 
it was identical with an unnamed specimen in the National Herbarium 
from Pine Creek, Northern Territory, and collected by R. Tate. This 
was kindly sent me on loan with permission to name and describe it if 
I thought fit. 
Family Convolvulaceae. 
Merremia hederacea {Barm. /.) Hallier f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
xviii, 168 (1894). 
E volvulus hederaceus Bunn. f. FI. Ind. 77, t. 30 f. 2 (1768). 
M. convolvulacea Dennst. Schl. Hort. Malabar 39 (1818). 
Cook District: Green Hill, near Cairns, S. E. Stephens (fls.) 
19-5-1944 (herb, fls. yellow) (N.Q. Nat. Club No. 8713). 
A common weed of S.E. Asia and the Malay Archipelago, not 
previously recorded from Queensland. 
Family Scrophulariaceae. 
Limnophila fragrans ( Forst . /.) Seem. FI. Vit. 180 (1865). 
Ruellia fragrans Forst. f. Prodr. 44 (1786). 
Limnophila serrata Gaudich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. 448, t. 57, fig. 2 
(1826) ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 490 (1869). 
