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XXXVI. Zn Account of two new Genera of Plants from New South 
Wales, prefented to the Linnean Society by Mr. Ti bomas Hoy, F. L. S. 
and Mr. John Fairbairn, F. L. S. By the Prefident. 
Read Nov. 5, 1793. 
: GOODENIA. 
EUM 
Pentandria Monogynia. Fi. menepetab, fuperi. 
Cuar. Gen. Caff. bilocularis, bivalvis, polyfperma ; diffepimento 
parallelo. Semina imbricata. 
Corolla fupra longitudinaliter fiffa, genitalia exferens; limbo 
quinquefido, fecundo. 
Anthere lineares, imberbes. 
Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum. 
HIS genus belongs to the order of Campanulacee of M. de 
: Juffieu, the firft fection, Antheris diftinétis, and ought to be 
there inferted between Cyphra and Scevola, and in the Linnean 
Syftem between the latter and Cinchona. 
It differs effentially from Scavo/a in its fruit, from Chris à in its 
corolla, and from Loëbclia in its ftamina. 
I have given to this new and moft diftinét genus the name of 
Goodenia, in honour of my worthy friend the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, 
treafurer of this Society, of whofe botanical merits it would be 
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