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Manual of the New Zealand Flora.

[Introduction to Order XL. Goodenovieæ.]

Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate or radical, rarely opposite; stipules wanting. Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular or rarely-regular, axillary or terminal, solitary or in spikes or racemes or panicles. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, limb of 5 persistent lobes or obsolete. Corolla gamopetalous, usually irregular. 5-lobed, often split to the base at the back. Stamens 5, alternate with the lobes of the corolla and inserted at its base; anthers free or rarely connate into a ring surrounding the style. Ovary inferior or nearly so, 1–2-celled; style simple, with a cup-shaped or 2-lipped expansion which encloses the stigma, and is called the indusium; ovules 1 or 2 or more in each cell, erect or ascending. Fruit an indehiscent drupe or nut or a 2–4-valved capsule. Seeds albuminous; embryo axile, radicle next the hilum.

An order containing 12 genera and about 200 species, nearly the whole of which are confined to Australia, a few species of Sccevola extending to the Pacific islands and the coasts of tropical Asia and Africa, and one species of Selliera to South America. The order has no important properties.

Creeping fleshy herb. Leaves linear - spathulate, entire. Berry many-seeded. 1. Selliera.
The New Zealand species a diffuse or procumbent under-shrub. Drupe 2-celled, with one seed in each cell 2. Scibvola.