BELLFLOWER, LOBELIAS AND GOODENIAS. 63 
logist and anato- 
mist, whose many 
discoveries were 
made at the end 
of the  seven- 
teenth and at the 
beginning of the 
eighteenth — cen- 
tury. 
Of Stylidiums 
several species 
occur in Victoria, 
one only being 
common, the Sty- 
lidium = gramini- 
folium, with grass- 
like leaves all 
radical, with stem- 
like flowerstalks, 
and with spikes of 
red pretty flowers. 
More important 
here are the Goode- 
niacee, because 
the members of 
this order in our 
colony are nume- 
_rous, thirty species 
having been detec- 
ted in Victoria. 
Many of them are 
besides of medici- 
nal utility, as they 
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Fic. XX VIII.—(Leeuwenhekea dubia).—1, a flower; 
2, longitudinal section of a flower ; 3, side view of column 
with labellum; 4, pollen-grains ; 5, front view of column ; 
all much magnified. 
possess a bitter tonic principle not dissimilar to that of the Gentians. 
To the gentianeous family they are also otherwise very closely 
related, the genus Limnanthemum among Gentianee differing 
from Velleya among Goodeniacee mainly in the symmetrical 
