* EUTHALES macrophylla. 



Broad-leaved JEuthales. 



PENTANDRIA MONOOYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Goodeniace^:. 



EUTHALES. Calyx inferus, tubulosus, 5-fidus, insequalis. Corolla 

 tubo inferne ovario adbserens, apice liinc fisso ; limbo bilabiato. Antherce 

 distinctae. Stylus indivisus. Stiymatis indusium bilabiatum. Capsula 4- 



valvis, basi biloculari. Semina imbricata, compressa. Ilerba acaulis, 



habitu et inflorescentia Velleise. R. Br. Prodr. 580. 



E. macrophylla; caule erecto crasso ramoso, foliis oppositis petiolatis oblongis 

 dentatis, floribus laxe dichotome paniculatis. Bot. Rey. 1840. misc. 119. 



" A half-superior corolla, joined with an inferior calyx, 

 characters found both in this genus and in Velleia, is up to 

 the present time without example." Such were the words of 

 Dr. Robert Brown, when he founded the genus in 1810, and 

 they remain without example up to the present day. From 

 Velleia, with which among Goodeniacese Euthales agrees, 

 that genus differs in its tubular not 5-leaved calyx, and in 

 wanting an epigynous gland between the two anterior fila- 

 ments. 



This is very different from E. trinervis, the original spe- 

 cies, in having a strong erect branched stem, with broad deep 

 green leaves, as much as six inches long. It grows from 

 three to four feet high, and is covered with gay yellow and 

 brown flowers during all the summer. It is a greenhouse 

 herbaceous plant. 



Fig. 1. represents the adherent base of the corolla, with 

 the stamens and pistil ; °2. shews a section of the ovary ; 

 3. is a stamen. 



* From to well, and &z\\w to flower, in allusion to its gay and 

 numerous flowers. 



