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OCCASIONAL NOTES ON PLANTS INDIGENOUS IN 

 THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SYDNEY. 



No. 7. 



By E. Haviland. 



This paper treats of such species of the genus Goodenia as I 

 have found in the immediate neighbourhood of Sydney. The 

 genus belongs to the order Goodeniacece, so named after Dr. 

 Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle. Of the genus Goodenia we have 

 the following species common about Sydney, G. ovata, G. bellidi- 

 folia, G. stelligera, G. hederacea, and a small road-side species, 

 apparently a variety of G. paniculate/,. G. paniculata itself how- 

 ever, may be found, though it is not so common as the other 

 species. 



The flowers of this genus are very interesting. The unecpially 

 lobed corolla, the winged lobes, the position of the stamens and 

 style, outside the corolla, the presence of an indusium, so unusual 

 in flowering plants ; all rivet tbe attention of anyone engaged in 

 the study of vegetable life ; and if my papers did not profess to 

 speak only of plants belonging to the close neighbourhood of 

 Sydney, I might refer to the elegance of some of the mountain 

 species such as G. decurrens or G. pendula: but even those species 

 I have named, as growing within the limit to which I confine 

 myself, possess great beauty. I may refer especially to G. ovata, 

 a fine showy plant of two to four feet high ; the purity of the colour 

 of its flowers (almost golden yellow) contrasting with its dark 

 green ovate leaves, gives it an exceedingly pleasing appearance. 

 G. stelligera is a species found in or near marshes and swampy 

 ground ; and varies exceedingly, even within the space of a few 



