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GOODENlACEiE. 
Order LYII. GOODENIACE^]. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb 
equally 5-toothed, or obsolete. Corolla gamopetalous, slit down the 
tube, the limb 5-partite, more or less irregular. Stamens 5, epigynous ; 
filaments filiform; anthers free or connate, basifixed, 2-celled, slit 
longitudinally. Ovary usually 2-celled ; ovules one or many in a 
cell; style simple; stigma fleshy, surrounded by a cup (indusium). 
Fruit drupaceous or capsular. Seeds albuminous. — Herbs or shrubs, 
with alternate exstipulate leaves. Allied to Canvpanulacea. but differing 
by its remarkable stigma. Distrib. Mostly Australian. Species 200. 
1. SCJEVOLA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, campanulate ; limb 5-toothed or 
nearly truncate. Corolla secund-hypocrateriform, with a cylindrical 
tube, slit all down the upper side to the base, and 5 subequal lobes, 
spreading on the lower side. Stamens 5, epigynous ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers shedding their pollen before the flower opens. Ovary inferior, 
1-4-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; style filiform, as long as the 
tube ; stigma capitate, surrounded by a densely fringed cup, becoming 
curved and the cup closing when the flower expands. Fruit a plum- 
like drupe with a spongy mesocarp and bony endocarp. — Shrubs with 
alternate entire leaves, the flowers in copious dichotomous axillary 
cymes. Distrib. Mostly Australian. Species 60. 
Calyx-teeth as long as the tube 1 . S. Kcenigii. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete 2. S. Plumieri. 
1. S. Kcenigii, Vahl ; DC. Prod. vii. 505. A shrub, 4-8 feet high, 
the longer branches decumbent, sending out long erect soft stout 
branchlets. Leaves with tufts of white silky hairs in their axils, sessile, 
obovate, obtuse, entire or slightly repand, 4-9 in. long, narrowed from 
the middle to the base, subcoriaceous, rather fleshy. Flowers in copious 
peduncled dichotomous cymes in the axils of the leaves. Branches 
with many small opposite bracts, those at the base of the calyx cadu- 
cous. Calyx glabrous, in. long ; teeth linear, as long as the tube. 
Corolla under an inch long, greenish -yellow on the outside; lobes 
obtuse, as long as the tube, with a crumpled white border. Drupe 
globose, whitish, \ in. thick, with a spongy mesocarp and bony 2-celled 
endocarp. Bot. Mag. t. 2732. S. Lobelia, Linn. S. sericea, Forst. 
Mauritius and Seychelles, common on the sea-shore. Polynesia to Africa. 
Veloutier blanc. 
2. S. Plumieri, Vahl ; DC. Prod. vii. 506. Habit of the other 
species, but leaves without tufts of hairs in their axils, smaller, more 
fleshy and more coriaceous, the pair of small bracts at the base of the 
