64 BELLFLOWER, LOBELIAS AND GOODENIAS. 
flower and the want of a special covering (indusium) of the 
stigma, the last-mentioned characteristic being the one on which 
the order mainly rests. The genus Velleya was named in honor 
of Colonel Velley, an author on alge at the end of last century. 
The occasional fallibility of the most salient characteristic of the 
position of the fruit, whether within the calyx and adnate or free 
from it, is observable in Velleya ; for while all other goodeniaceous 
genera have the fruit placed inferiorly, it is superior in Velleya. 
The order derives its name from Dr. Goodenough, Bishop of 
Carlisle, a scientific worker on British Algee and sedges late in 
the last century. The genus Goodenia, though in its etymology 
strangely abbreviated by Sir James Smith, serves now also as a 
monument to the Bishop’s grandson, Commodore Goodenough, 
who succumbed to arrow-wounds, inflicted by the savages of Santa 
Cruz. As an example the description of one Goodenia is given, 
one of our rarest species, dedicated to the discoverer of Gipps- 
land : 
Goodenia Macmillani.—A perennial herb, erect or adscendent, 
all over glandular ; leaves dissected into lobes and besides denti- 
culated ; their lower lobes the smallest, the upper lobe far larger 
than the rest and often triangular or cordate- or oval-lanceolar. 
Flowers axillary, solitary ; stalk angular, usually shorter than the 
flower, jointed at the summit, with two minute narrow bracteoles 
at the base ; lobes of the calyx five, persistent, narrow and acute. 
Corolla about one inch long, purple, cleft to near the base ; the 
two upper lobes deeper separated than the three lower lobes ; each 
consisting of a lanceolar plate and membranous broad margin, 
the latter bilobed at the summit and before expansion inflected ; 
the very short tube slit along the upper side, and at the base 
produced into a slight gibbosity, the inner side somewhat downy 
and papillar. Stamens five ; filaments threadlike ; anthers oblong, 
fixed at the base, slit longitudinally along each of their two cells, 
Style filiform, downy, curved at the apex, around the orifice 
of the indusium white silky-fringed. Fruit cylindric-ellipsoid, 
bilocular from a septum, which extends to near the summit of the 
cavity, where it is semicircular-excised. Seeds in two rows on 
each side of the septum, ovate-orbicular, brown-yellow, finely 
