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GONGORA 



GOODIA 



purple. Brazil. B.R. 27:2. G.W. 13, p. 110. G. fuscata, Hort. 

 (Acropera fuscata and luteola, Hort.), has been cult, for ^nany 

 years, but no description is available. -G. Tracyana, Rolfe. Sepals 

 and petals greenish yellow, marked with brown; lip ivory-white. 



Peru - H. HASSELBRING. 



GONIOMA (Greek, gonia, angle, corner; the corona 

 cornered near the top) . Apocynacese. Shrub, introduced 

 for the warmer parts of the country. 



A monotypic genus containing a S. African glabrous 

 plant with coriaceous Ivs. and terminal corymbose fls.: 

 calyx small, with 5 more or less herbaceous sepals; 

 corolla with 5 lobes, overlapping to the left; stamens 

 inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube. Gonioma 

 differs from Tabernsemontana in having the ovules 

 arranged in 2 series instead of an indefinite number of 

 series. 



Kamassi, Mey. (Tabernsemontana Camdssi, Regel). 

 Height 16-20 ft.: Ivs. opposite or the upper ones inS's, 

 oblong -lanceolate, entire, leathery, 4-6 lines wide: 

 corymbs small, terminal, 8-10-fld.; fls. salver-shaped, 

 yellowish, 3 lines long; tube a little wider at the middle 

 and angled, constricted at top, pilose within from the 

 middle to the top; lobes a third as long as the tube, 

 ovate, cordate, twisted to the right in the bud; style 

 2-cut: fr. 1-2 % lines long. Yields the hard yellow 

 Kamassi wood of S. Afr. .jj. TAYLOR, f 



GONIOPHLEBIUM. A subgenus of Polypodium, 

 (or perhaps a distinct genus), with a special type of 

 anastomosing veins. For G. svbauriculatum and G. 

 vacdnisefolium, see Polypodium. 



GONIOPTERIS (Greek, angled fern). Polypodidcese. 

 A generic name for a group of tropical ferns belonging 

 with Dryopteris, with naked rounded sori and the lower 

 veinlets of contiguous segments or lobes united. Has 

 been placed under Polypodium. For G. crenata, see 

 Dryopteris crenata. 



GONIOSCJPHA (name refers to the angled peri- 

 anth). Liliacese. One species, G. eucomotdes, Baker, 

 an odd nearly stemless plant from the E. Himalayas, 

 producing 1 thick dense short-peduncled spike 3-5 in. 

 long, of small lurid green fls.: Ivs. few in a rosette, 

 10-15 in. long, 5-6 in. broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 

 several-nerved; petiole 3-4 in. long, broad: perianth 

 open, somewhat fleshy; anthers 6, sessile; stigma some- 

 what 3-lobed: fr. a 1-seeded globose-ellipsoid dark 

 brown berry, becoming dry. B.M. 8078. G.C. III. 

 20:748. G.W. 12:750. Blooms in late autumn; pro- 

 duces a short fleshy rootstock. L. jj g g_ 



GON(5LOBUS (name refers to the angled pod of one 

 of the original species). Asdepiadaceae. Mostly trail- 

 ing or climbing plants, herbaceous or woody, of Amer., 

 chiefly tropical: Ivs. opposite and mostly cordate: fls. 

 dull or dark-colored, of medium or large size, in fas- 

 cicles or umbel-like cymes; corolla rotate to campanu- 

 late, 5-lobed; crown ring-like or cup-like, entire, lobed 

 or divided; anthers short and borne under the disk of 

 the stigma or on the margin of it; pollinia nearly or 

 quite horizontal; stigma flat-topped. Seventy-five or 

 more species, only one of which seems to be in horti- 

 cultural lists. G. edftlis, Hemsl., of Guatemala and 

 Costa Rica, is a more or less rusty-hairy twining shrub, 

 with ovate-oblong deeply cordate Ivs., and 3-5-fld. 

 short peduncles: corolla of medium size, white, densely 

 bearded inside; crown short, with 5 interior longitudinal 

 lamellae: follicles the size of a swan's egg, edible. It is 

 said to be hardy at Santa Barbara and to bloom pro- 

 fusely but to set no fr. It is the guayote of the natives 

 of Costa Rica. 



G. Cundurdngo, Triana=Marsdenia. G. MartiAnus, Hook., is 

 properly Fischeria Martiana, Decne. A handsome stove twiner 

 with pretty fls. in early summer: Ivs. oblong-ovate, hairy, acumi- 

 nate: fls. white with a green ring at base and a red hairy calyx. 

 Brazil. B.M. 4472. J.F. 1:33. T TT T> 



Ll. Jtl. D. 



GOOBER is a commoner name in the South than 

 "peanut," which is the universal name in the North. 

 For culture, see Peanut; for botany, see Arachis. 



GOODENIA (Bishop Samuel Goodenough, England, 

 1743-1827, who wrote on Carex). Goodenidcese (some- 

 times written Goodenoviese). The family Goodeniacese 

 is allied to the Campanulaceae, differing in never having 

 milky juice, the style surrounded by an indusium or 

 cup-shaped or two-lipped expansion, the cells of the 

 ovary mostly more in number, and other technical char- 

 acters. There are a dozen genera of herbs and shrubs 

 and probably 300 species, mostly Australian. Proba- 

 bly none of them is in regular cultivation, although 

 Goodenia and Scaevola are sometimes mentioned in 

 horticultural literature. 



About 100 species oi Goodenia occur in Australia: 

 calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the lobes free or 

 adnate at the base; style undivided: caps, with 2 or 

 rarely 4 valves: herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs, with 

 yellow, purplish or blue fls. The species most likely 

 to be met with in horticultural literature are: G. 

 grandiflora, Sims. Erect herb, with large yellow fls. 

 more or less streaked purple, linear calyx-lobes, and 

 broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 toothed Ivs. that sometimes have 

 small lobes along the petiole. B.M. 

 890. B.R. 31:29. G. Macmillanii, 

 F. Muell., very like the last but 

 with- purple fls. and lyrate Ivs. H. 

 F.II. 4:240. G. stclligera, R. Br. 

 Perennial herb: st. 12-18 in., almost 

 leafless: radical Ivs. linear or nearly 

 so, entire, 3-^6 in. long: fls. yellow, 

 nearly or quite sessile, in a long in- 

 terrupted spike. G. ovata, Smith. 

 Glabrous or viscid shrub or sub- 

 shrub, to 4 ft.: Ivs. lanceolate to 

 ovate or nearly orbicular, denticu- 

 late: fls. yellow, the corolla about 

 J^in. long. L. H. B. 



GOODIA (after Peter Good, who 

 found the plant in New South 

 Wales). Leguminbsse. Australian 

 shrubs, with pea-like flowers. 



There are 2 goodias; both species 

 have long been cult, in a few con- 

 servatories abroad, but the pubes- 

 cent species is now forgotten and 

 the glabrous one, in Amer. is cult, 

 chiefly in S. Calif, outdoors. Under 

 glass these shrubs are treated like 

 Cape heaths or Australian hard- 

 wooded plants. It has no near allies 

 of garden value. It belongs with 

 4 other Australian genera to sub- 

 tribe Bossisea, in which the Ivs. are 

 mostly simple: stamens coalesced 

 into a sheath, which is split above: 

 seeds strophiolate. From these 4 

 genera Goodia differs in having 3 

 pinnate Ifts. and its racemes ter- 

 minal or opposite the 

 Ivs. instead of axillary. 

 A. Schultheis writes 

 that goodias are occa- 

 sionally seen in florists' 

 windows in America. 

 Wm. Watson, of Kew, 

 says the flowers are 

 very fragrant, and re- 

 main on the plant a 

 long time. He adds 

 (G.F. 2:244): "Prob- 

 ably this plant, if taken 1661. Goodyera pubescens. (X>i) 



