by tbe persistent lobes. Albumen 0. (Named iu honour of Robert Brown, the Botanist to Captain Flinders’ E x pedition,
and author o f the justly celebrated ‘ Prodromus Floræ Novæ-Hollandiæ,’)
N a t . O r d . XL IV. GOODENOVIEÆ.
B y far th e greater number o f the species o f th is Order are natives o f Australia, whence upwards of
1 5 0 have been described. Some o f them have considerable ranges, bu t mauy arc very local, and several of
th e m ost remarkable genera and species are confined to South-western Australia. Mo st o f the Tasmaniau
species are yellow-flowered, aud blossom iu December and January. Mueller has discovered a valuable
bitter in some o f th e V ic tor ia species.
G en. I . D AM P IE R A , B r .
C a ly cis limbus abbreviatus v . 0 . Corolla bilabiata, tubo h in c fisso, labii superioris lobis margine in teriore
auriculatis. Antheroe imberbes, arete cobærentes. Ovarium, 1-ovulatum. S tigm a tis indusium ore
nudo. N u x Crustacea.— Suffrutices v. herbæ p e r e n n e s ; foliis a l t em i s ; pedunculis a x illa ribu s, p a u c if
lo r is ; co rollis deciduis.
About thirty or forty species of this genus are known, all Austraban, and chiefly confined to the south-west
quarter. They are generally suffrutieose plants, with angular branches, alternate, coriaceous, entire or toothed
leaves, aud rather small, axillarj-, blue flowers.— Cafyar-limb very short or none. Corolla two-lipped, split down
one side ; the lobes o f the upper lip auriculate on the inner margin. Anthers cohering. Cup o f the stigma naked.
Ovary one-ovuled. F m it a crustaceous nut. (Named in honour of William Dampier, the navigator, who brought
a drawing o f a species of this genus, and of various other plants, from the west coast o f Australia in a . d . 1699.)
1. D a m p i e r a s t r i c t a (Br. Prodr. 5 8 9 ) ; herbácea, erecta, virgata, pubescens v. glabrata, caule compresso
trígono, foliis sessilibus cuneatis subdentatis, p edunculis paucifloris axillaribus terminalibusque, corollis
extus sericeis. {Gunn, 1 1 8 0 .)
Var. a ; foliis supra scabris.— D . stricta, B r . I. c. ; B C . P r o d r . v ii. 5 0 5 ; B e Friese, Gooden. 1 0 9 .
Var. f l ; foliis supra glabris lævibus.— D . oblongata, B r . I. c. ; B C . I. e. ; B e Friese, Gooden. 1 0 6 .
H a b . Y^’ar. a . Flinders’ Islan d and Cape Barren Islan d , Gunn. Y a r . fl. Source o f th e N o r th Esk
R iver , S trze ie c k i.— (F l. Oct.)
D i s t r i b . Extratropical Australia, from N ew South YVales to Swan River.
I have examined a very extensive suite of specimens o f the D. stricta and oblongata of Brown, and find so
many intermediate forms, that I have brought them together here. Of Gunn’s specimens, one accords with stricta
in the scabrous upper surface of the foliage, but the leaves are oblong-cuneate ; the other with D. oblongata, in the
leaf being glabrous above, and of exactly the same form as that of D . stricta.
Gen. I I . SCÆ VO LA , A.
Calyc is limbus superus, 5-lob u s. Corolla longitudinaliter fissa, limbo 5-lobo, lob is alatis conformibus.
Antheroe liberæ. Stigm a tis indusium ciliatum. B ru p a carnosa v. exsucca, 2 -4 -lo cu la r is, loculis monospermis.—
Herbæ h a b itu va rioe ; fo liis p le r isq u e a ltem is ; floribus ax illa ribu s, sp ica tis cymosisve, interdum
so lita r iis .
A very large genus, several species o f which are common tropical littoral plants, but by far the greater number
are peculiar to Australia, where about fifty species are known. These have been divided into sections by Brown,
Don, Bentham, and others, and latterly the genus has been broken up into several by De Vriese; but the structure
of the flower and fruit is so similar in all, that I have not adopted the latter divisions, under one of which
{Merkvsia, De Vriese), the Tasmaniau S. Hookeri will come.— Herbs or shrubs, with generally alternate leaves, and
axillary, sohtary, racemose or cymose flowers. Calyx-lobes superior, five. Corolla split to the base, five-lobed, the
lobes winged. Stamens free. Stigma smrounded by a ciliated cup. Fruit a dry or fleshy, two- to four-ceUed
drupe ov nut, with one seed in each cell. (Name from scoeva, the left hand ; in allusion to the form o f the corolla.)
1. S c æ v o l a H o o k e r i (Mue ll. M S S .) ; herbácea, diffusa, pubescenti-pilosa, ramis elongatis, fo liis ob ovato
oblongis spathulatis linear i-oblongisve scssilibu-s v. in petiolum angustatis integerrimis dentatisve
acutis, pedunculis folio æquilongis brevioribusve axillaribus solitariis 1-floris, bracteis ovato-oblongis, calyce
villoso, corolla e t drupa p ilo sa .— Merkusia Hookeri, B e Friese, A n a l. Gooden, ii. 55, e t Goodenovioe, 57.
t. 12. {Gunn, 745, 847, 848.) (Tab. L X V I I .)
Hab. Marshy places, at Rocky Cape, Mou n t YVellington, Hampshire H ills, Lak e St. Clair, e tc., Gumn.
— (El. F eb .)
Distrib. South-eastern Australia : Albert River, M u e lle r.
Hairy, diffuse, very variable in size.— Stems creeping, branching from the root, branches 2 -1 0 inches long.
Leaves sessile or narrowed into a petiole, very variable in form and size, 4 - 3 inches long, oblong, linear-ohlong,
cuneate or elhptic-oblong or subspathulate, acute, quite entire or slightly or coarsely toothed. Peduncles axillary,
sohtaiy, sometimes as long as the leaf, usually very short. Bracts hairy. Calyx villous. Corolla small, dirty-
white. N u t smaU, white, hairy, celled.— Plate LXVII. Fig. 1, flower; 2, coroUa laid open; 3, stamen; 4 , style
and stigma; 5, transverse, and 8, vertical section of ovary; 7, drupe; 8, seed:— all magnified.
!S. Scævola cuneiformis, Lab. Nov. HoU. i. 56. t. 80, described by LabiUardiere as a Tasmanian plant, is
y a native o f South-western Australia.
Gen. I I I . SE L L IE R A , Cav.
Calyc is tubus ovario aduatus, laciniis 5 subæqualibus. • Corolla unilabiata, tubo fisso, laciniis apteris
valvatis. Stamina Ò, libera. Fru c tu s cam o sn s, 2-locuIaris, polyspermus.— Herba re p en s; foliis cam osis,
anguste linearihus lanceolatisv e ; pedunculis a x illarih u s, \ - 2 flo r is , b ibrac teolatis ; corolla pu rpu ra scen te .
The Tasmanian species of this geuus is a remarkable little plant, also found in New Zealand and extratropical
South America; it is usually retained in Goodenia, where I left it in the ‘ Flora o f New Zealand,’ but it differs so
widely in characters and habit from the other Australian Goodenias, that I do not think it can with consistency be
retained in that genus, from which Endlicher also thinks it should be removed, and have the original generic name
o f CavanUles restored to it. S. repens is a smaU, glabrous herb, generaUy growing in salt-marshes, with creeping
stems, sometimes a foot long, very variable in robustness, and tufts of erect, fleshy, narrow-linear, linear-spathulate
or lanceolate, nerveless leaves, 1 -5 inches long.— Peduncles axiUary, erect, bibracteolate, very variable in length.
Calyx superior, of five nearly equal lobes. Corolla one-hpped; lobes ovate, acute, not winged, valvate in æstivation.
Anthers free. F-uit a fleshy, two-ceUed capsxde or berry, many-seeded. (Named in honour of N a tali Sellier, the
eminent Parisian engraver of CavaniUes’ botanical plates.)
1. S e l l i e r a r a d i c a n s (Cav. I c . v. 4 9 . t. 4 7 4 . f. 2 ) .— S. repens e t S. radicans, B e Vriese, Gooden.
1 6 2 . Goodenia radicans, B C . P ro d r. vii. 5 1 6 . G. repens, L a b . Nov. H o ll. i. 5 3 , t. 7 6 ; B r . P ro d r. 5 7 9 ;
FL N . Z eal. i. 1 5 6 . {Gunn, 79.)
Hab. Common in marshy places near the sea.— (F l. D e c .-F e b .) {v. v.)
Distrib. South-eastern Australia; N ew Zealand; Chili.
Gen. IV . G O O D E N IA , Sm.
Caly cis tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-partitus, laciniis æqualibus. Corolla irregulariter bilabiata
lobis alatis æstivatione induplicatis, tubo fisso. Stamina 5 , antheris distinctis. Capsula 2-(rar ius 4 )-lo cu -