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894 GOODENIACEAE. [Selliera. 
1 or 2 or more in each cell, ereet or ascending. Fruit an indehiscent drupe 
or nut or a 2-4-valved capsule. Seeds albuminous; embryo axile, radicle 
next the hilum. 
A family containing 13 genera and about 300 species, nearly the whole of which 
are confined to Australia, a few species of Scaevola extending to the Pacific islands and 
the coasts of tropical Asia and Africa, and one species of Selliera to South America. 
The family has no important properties. 
Creeping fleshy herb. Leaves linear-spathulate, entire. Berry many- 
seeded... v +. me 4 ee .. 1, SELLIERA. 
The New Zealand species a diffuse or procumbent undershrub. 
Drupe 2-celled, with one seed in each cell de. te .. 2. SCAEVOLA. 
1. SELLIERA Cav. ! 7979 
Small glabrous creeping and rooting perennial herbs. Leaves alternate 
or fascicled at the nodes, entire. Flowers axillary, sessile or pedunculate. 
Calyx-tube adnate’to the ovary ; limb 5-lobed or -partite. Corolla oblique, 
split to the base at the back; limb of 5 nearly equal lobes, at length 
digitately spreading; the margins inflexed or winged. Stamens 5, epigy- 
nous; anthers free. Ovary inferior, more or less completely 2-celled ; 
ovules numerous in each cell. Style undivided; stigma short, truncate, 
enclosed within the cup-shaped indusium. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. 
Seeds usually numerous, compressed or irregularly shaped. 
A small genus of 2 species, 1 of which is confined to Western Australia; the 
other occurs in Australia, Tasmania, and Chile, as well as in New Zealand. 
1. S. radieans Cav. Ic. v (1799) 49, t. 474.—A glabrous creeping and root- 
ing perennial; stems 1-10 in. long, usually matted and interlaced, forming 
broad flat patches. Leaves variable in size, $—4 in. long, linear-spathuiate 
to oblong-spathulate or obovate-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into a long 
petiole, quite entire, nerveless, very thick and fleshy. Peduncles axilliary, 
1- or rarely 2-flowered, shorter than the leaves, with 2 subulate bracts above 
the middle. Flowers white, 4in. long. Calyx-lobes lanceolate or linear. 
Corolla-lobes ovate, acute, not winged.. Fruit fleshy, ovoid or obovoid, about 
tin. long. Seeds compressed, orbicular, narrowly winged.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
(1864) 173; Fl. Tasm. 1 (1860) 231; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv (1869) 82; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 394. SS. fasciculata Buch. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. i (1871) 211. §. microphylla Col. l.c. xxn (1890) 473. Goodenia 
repens Lab. Pl. Nov. Holl. 1 (1804) 53, t. 76; A. Rich. Fl. Now. Zel. (1832) 
228; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) 428; Raoul Choix (1846) 45; Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 156. Tamunse~ Ge ' 140d 
NortH AND SoutH Istanps, Stewart? IstanD: Common in muddy or sandy or 
rocky places near the sea. Inland by the margins of the larger lakes, &c., ascending 
to over 2500 ft. at the base of Ruapehu. November—February. 
For notes on the fertilization, see a paper by myself in the Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix 
(1877) 542. 
2. SCAEVOLA Linn. 1771. 
Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 
entire or toothed. Flowers axillary, solitary or in small cymes. Calyx- 
tube adnate to the ovary; limb short, 5-partite or cupular, sometimes 
obsolete. Corolla oblique, split to the base at the back; lobes 5, nearly 
