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goodenia grandiflora. l.arg&- 

 Flowered Goodenia. 



Clqfs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cap/. 2-!ocularis, 2-valvis, polyfperma, diffepimento parallelo. 

 Sem. imbricata. Cor. fupra longitudinaliter fiffa, genitalia ex- 

 ferens : limbo 5-fido, fecundo. Anthers lineares, imberbes. 

 Stigma urceolatum, eiliatum. Smith. 



Specific Character. 



GOODENIA grandiflora ; caule herbaceo angulato, foliis 

 cordatis dentato-ferratis villofis : inferioribus 

 pinnatis, floribus axillaribus ternis, capfulis 

 pentagonis gibbis. 



Desc. Root annual or biennial, fibrous. Stalk branched, 

 three or four feet high, fix or feven angled, and deeply fur- 

 rowed, hairy, filled with light pith like elder. Leaves alternate, 

 °n long petioles ; upper ones fimple; heart-fhaped, acuminate, 

 'awed, with teeth nearly perpendicular, foft and fomewhat 

 clammy ; lower ones pinnated, the terminal leaflet the fame as 

 the upper leaves and much larger than the others. Flowers 

 grow generally by threes, but at the upper part of the plant 

 frequently folitary, from the axils of the petioles, the common 

 peduncle very fhort or almoft none, with a fhort fubulate 

 D racte at the bafe of each pedicle. Calyx fuperior or growing 

 to the germen, divided into five fubulate fegments, perfiftent. 

 Corolla yellow, irregular ; laciniae 5, ovate-lanceolate, three- 

 served on the under furface, margin undulated ; the claws 

 of the three lower ones adhere together, but the two upper 



lacinias 



