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VELLEIA lyrata. 

 Lyrate-leaved Velleia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOOYNJA. 



Nat crd, Cahpanvlaceje. Jutsieu gen. 165. Did. /. Aathene db- 



tJDctse, 



GooDENOvi^. Brown prod. 1. 573. Sett. L ^miDa in* 

 definita., 



VELLEIA. CaL inferus, S-d-phyllus, inaequalis. Coretta tubo basi 

 ^rmini accreto, afuceidnc fisso; 7m6o bilabiato. ^nMenF dUtincte. Siybti 

 iodivisus. Gian^ula epigma inter filamenta 2 aoteriora. Capsula basi bilo* 

 culari, valris bipartitis. Semina imbricata, compressa. 



Herbs' d6aufe$. Fofia radicalia subspatkulata ; stjepius deutata, nunc 

 igf^tita. ^ S(iipi dicbBtomi^ axiOu pleriigue ^fiariferUf bracteU t^ontiM^ fo- 

 liaoeis^ qu^ndoque' maximu et nunc cannatis. CsAycis' fotiohim $nperin$ 

 tatiuSr et bast s^i dentatum* Corolla^aoa» ban adfuBrenti infr& gibbd v* 

 calcarati. Stylus subtetraganut. StigmaUs mdunum maximutn, BrowD 

 prod. 1. 680. 



&et. IL — Calyx S-pkylbu. Corolla basi Hnc ^^banushUa. Vclleiae mm. 



Brown prod. l;-6eo. , , 



y*.JgrfUaf glabra^ bractets dichotomiarum distiDCtisr foliis lyratis baairt 



inciso^deDtatiSj calycis foliolis ovato-orbiculatis. Brown loc. cit 

 Velleia spathalata. JusHeu in ofut. da tnvs^in 18. 17. t. l,^g*4; (non 



Brawnei in loe, cit. pro gud tamen A Jutsieuio ma& habetur). 



A species now first introduced by Mr. Lee into the 

 Hammersmith nursery, where the drawing was taken from 

 a plant in one of the greenhouses. It is the only one of the 

 genus that heis appeared in our gardens; and was Originally 

 observed by Mr. Brown in New Holland, growing in the 

 neighbourhood of Port Jackson. Flowers in April. 



The species has been mistaken by Messrs. Jussieu and 

 Richard, in the Annales du Museum, for spathalata of 

 the Prodromus of New Holland; one belonging to a far 

 distant quarter of that country, and as Mr. Brown thinks 

 very unlikely to have come into the possession of those cele- 

 brated Botanists. 



To observe the original form of the stigma with its sur- 

 rounding indusium which is the main feature of this natural 

 order, that organ must be inspected at a very early stage of 

 it« appearance, and long before the flower expands. It sub- 



