path, : { 1137 J ae 
GoopENIA TENELLA. DicHoromous 
-* Goopenia. 7 
AHS HEE 
Clafs and Order. 
PeENTANDRIA MonoGyYNIA. 
Generic CharaGer.—Vid. No. 899, 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
GOODENIA fenella ; foliis radicalibus fpathulatis fubdentatis 
pubefcentibus, caulibus affurgentibus dicho-__ 
tomis, floribus folitariis pedunculatis, capfulis 
fuperis quadrivalvibus. 
GOODENIA tenella. Bot. Repof. t. 466. 
VELLEIA trinervis. Ladil/. Nov, Holl. 54. t. 77. Dryand. 
> Chloris Nov. Holl. in Annals of Bot, v. 2. p. 515+ 
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_ Descr. Leaves all radical, fpathular-fhaped, flefhy, veined 
underneath. Stems feveral bending towards the earth, then 
rifing ere€&t, dichotomous. At each divifion of the ftem are a 
pair of oblique leaflike Jrafes, both growing from one fide. 
Flowers folitary on long peduncles, golden yellow with a dark 
purple eye. ‘Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, teeth fubulate, 
unequal, one being confiderably larger and longer than the 
reft. Corolla one-petaled, tubular: tude fhorter than limb, 
airy at the mouth, fplit nearly to the bafe: limb 5-cleft, lacinia 
nearly equal, fubbilabiately arranged, obovate, thickened on 
the under furface by a green elliptical band, fomewhat undulate 
-at the margin. Stamens 5: filaments fhorter than the tube, 
united at the bafe into a membrane furrounding the germen : 
_ antbers oblong, ere&t. Germen fuperior, gibbous-top-fhaped, 
(one-celled ?): Ayle fubdeclined ; /igmacupthaped, hairy on the 
infide, open at firft, but afterwards clofed and flattened. Ovala 
humerous, lenticular, wae : 
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