winged.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 173; Fl. Tasm. i. 281; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 82. S. fasciculata, Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iii. (1871) 211. S. microphylla, Col. l.c. xxii. (1890) 473. Goodenia repens, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 53, t. 76; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 228; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 428; Raoul, Choix, 45; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 156.
North and South Islands, Stewart Island: 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 fertilisation, see a paper by myself in the Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix. p. 542.
2. SCÆVOLA, Linn.
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 equal, at length digitately spreading. Stamens 5; anthers free. Ovary inferior or the summit free, 2-celled; ovules solitary in each cell, erect. Style undivided; stigma truncate or 2-lobed, enclosed in the cup-shaped indusium. Fruit indehiscent, exocarp succulent or thin and membranous, endocarp woody or bony or rarely crustaceous. Seeds solitary in each cell.
A large genus of 60 or 70 species, over 50 of which are confined to Australia. The remainder are scattered through the Pacific islands and along the coasts of tropical Asia, one extending to tropical Africa and the West Indies. The single species found in New Zealand is endemic.
1. S. gracilis, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. (1857) 129.—A procumbent undershrub 2–4 ft. high; branches long, spreading, and with the leaves clothed with silky hairs; axils of the leaves densely villous. Leaves alternate, 1–3 in. long, obovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, serrate-dentate, narrowed into a rather long petiole. Flowers ¾ in. long, axillary, solitary, sessile or shortly peduncled, white with a yellow eye, sweet-scented; bracts 2, rarely 4, linear-lanceolate. Calyx cupular. indistinctly lobed. Corolla with a short villous tube and 5 narrow segments, mucronate at the tips. Stamens equal, shorter than the corolla-tube. Style pilose; indusium deeply cup-shaped, margins fringed. Fruit not seen.— Handb. N.Z. Fl. 173.
Kermadec Islands: Abundant on clifis near the sea, McGillivray, Shakespear! T. F. C. July–December.
Hooker describes the calyx as having 3 subulate lobes and 2 shorter intermediate ones, but in my own specimens and Mr. Shakespear's it is invariably cupular and very indistinctly lobed.
