Zevenliookia.l Lxiii. stylidie^. 37 



1. F. bellidifoHa^ Hoo^\f. Ic. PL t 851 ayidTl Tasni, i. 236. Quite 

 glabrous. Stock densely tufted. Leaves all radicalj rosulatc-obovate or 

 oblong-spatliulate, very obtuse, rather thick, rarely above -^ in. long-. Scapes 

 slender, 3 to 5 in. long, usually with 2 or 3 small, linear bracts under the 

 flower. Calyx about 2 Hues long, the linear-oblong lobes about as long as 

 the globular tube. Corolla-tube about 1 line long, the lobes rather longer, 

 obovate, 2 rather larger than the others, the throat often with small, glanrlu- 

 lar appendages. Stigma-lobes broad, shortly exceeding the anthers, which 

 were not quite perfect in the flower examined, probably a partially female 

 one. Capsule broadly ovoid, about 3 lines long. 



Tasmania. Mount Sorell and summit of the ranges aLove Eircli's Inlet, Macquarrie 

 Harbour, MiUigan, Qunn ; Mount Lapeyrouse, C. Stuart, The species comes nearest to 

 the New Zealand F. tenella. Hook. f. 



Ordee lxiy. GOODENOVIE^. 



Calyx-tube adiuite to the ovary or rarely free, the limb of 5 persistent lobes, 

 sometiuies very small, or united in a ring, or quite obsolete. Corolla irre- 

 gular or rurtily regular, with 5 lobes, valvate in the bud, their margins 

 usually induplicate and expanding into glabrous wings as the Hower opens. 

 Stamens 5, alternate with the lobes of the corolla and inserted at the june- 

 tion of the corolla-tube with the ovary or very rarely shortly adnate to the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers 2-cel!ed, the cells parallel, opening longitudinally, free 

 or united in a ring round the style. Ovary wholly or partially inferior, at 

 least as to the corolla, or rarely free within the corolla-tube, 1- or 3-eelled ; 

 ovules 1, 3 or more in each cell, erect or ascending (except in Catosperma) . 

 Style simple and urulivided (except in Caloyyne), with a cup-shaped or 2- 

 lipped dilatation, called indamim, at the top, enclosing the stigma. Fruit an 

 indehiscent nut or drupe, or a capsule opening in 2 or 4 valves or rarely 

 bursting irregularly or almost indehiscent. Seeds with a thin or crustaceous 

 or thick and hard testa; embryo straight in the centre of a somewhat fleshy 

 albumen, which is rarely deficient ; radicle next the hilum. — Herbs under- 

 shrubs or rarely shrubs, the juice not milky. Leaves alternate or radical, 

 very rarely irregularly opposite, entire, toothed or rarely pinuatifid. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, axillary or in termiiuil spikes, racemes or panicles, the pii- 

 niary inflorescence centripetal, the secondary usually cymose and dicho- 

 tomous. Bracteoles on the 1-tlowercd peduncles (when present) and bracts 

 at the forks of the dichotomous cymes, opposite. Corolla yelloAV blue or 

 ■^dutc, rarely red or purple. 



The Order is almost exclusively Australian, a very few species only of one gcnas {Scmvola) 

 being known from New Zealand, the Pacific islands, and the roasts of tropical and suhtro- 

 plcal Africa, Asia, and America, and one of another prenus {Calogj/ne), perhaps not diilereat 

 from an Australian one, extending to the coast of China. It is, no doubt, allied to Cam- 

 panulacem, but, besides the diflcrences in the ovules, fruit, and seeds, and the want of the 

 niilky juice of that Order, GoodenoviecB arc readily known by the remarkable indusium, 

 ^vhich evidently, together with the peculiar surrounding hairs of the style or of the corolla, 

 acts a considerable part in assisting the proper impregnation of the stigma. The con- 

 trivances by which this impregnation is impeded, retarded, or promoted, appear to be very 

 different in different genera, as, for instance, in Goodenla, Lescke7iaultia,;m(il)ampiem, 

 •ind are well worthy of careful observation ou the part of botanists resident in Australia, 



