234 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Stylidiea. 
Plant very variable in size, from 2 inches to a foot high ; also in amount of pubescence, and the size of the 
flower, and size and shape of the calyx-lobes and bracts.— Leaves oblong-lanceolate, bluntly toothed, petiolate, 2-3 
inches long. Scape* stout, erect, often trichotomously branched above the middle ; bracts entire or lobed or cleft 
to the base, and, as well as the peduncles and pedicels, densely pubescent. Flowers inclined. Calyx-lobes linear- 
oblong, blunt, entire, longer than the tube of the corolla. Corolla with a short spur that projects downwards be- 
tween the calyx-lobes, and is persistent after the fall of the corolla. 
2. Velleia montana (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 265) ; depressa, pilosa v. glabrata, folia 
stellatim patentibus lanceolate- v. oblongo-spathulatis obtusis integerrimis v. subdentatis, scapis brevibus, 
calycis lobis 3 lrneari- v. ovato-oblongis basi edentulis, corolla ecalcarata. — Be Vriese, Gooden. 176. {Gmn, 
227.) (Tab. LXVIII.5.) 
Hab. Mountainous districts, forming large patches, as at Marlborough, Arthur's Lakes, Hampshire 
Hills, Western Mountains, etc., Lawrence, Gunn, etc. — (Fl. Dec.-Feb.) 
Distrib. Alps of South-eastern Australia: Snowy Plains, 4-5000 feet elevation, Mueller. 
A small, depressed species, with numerous radical, spreading leaves, very short scapes, small flowers, with 
three-leaved calyx, and corolla without any spur. — Leaves 2-4 inches long, spathulate, entire or rarely obscurely 
toothed, pubescent and pilose or glabrous. Scapes shorter than the leaves, slender, branched, and, as well as the 
broadly-oblong or linear-oblong calyx-lobes, more or less pubescent. Corolla of a dingy reddish colour. — Plate 
LXVin.2?. Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same cut open; 3, transverse section of ovary: — all magnified. 
Goodmia rotundifolia, Br., and Mutinies trinervis, Br., are stated by De Vriese (Gooden., pp. 145 and 169) to 
have been found in Tasmania by Baron Hiigel ; but they have not been detected by any other collector, and I 
suspect some mistake. 
Nat. Ord. XLV. STYLIDIEvE. 
Of this eminently Australian Natural Order a few genera and about seventy species are known. Of 
these genera, Stylidium is the only large one, and is confined to Australia, with the exception of three 
species which inhabit Eastern Bengal, Malacca, and Ceylon. Of the second genus, Leeuwenhoekia, only 
two species are known, natives of Australia ; the third, Forstera, contains several New Zealand, one Fue- 
gian, and one Tasmanian species. The majority of the Natural Order are found along the south coast of 
Australia, and are pretty equally distributed; there are several tropical species, but comparatively few 
Tasmanian. 
Gen. I. STYLIDIUM, Sioartz. 
Calycis limbus bilabiatus. Corolla irregularis, 5-fida, lacinia quinta (labello) dissimili, minore, deflexa 
(raro porrecta), reliquis patentibus (raro geminatim cohserentibus), Columna reclinata. Anthem 2-lobse, 
lobis divaricatis. Stigma obtusum, indivisum. Capsula bilocularis, dissepimento superne quandoque in- 
complete. — Herb^e v. suffruticuli, glaherrima v. piloso-glandulosa ; foliis radicalibus, rosulatis, rarius spar- 
sis ; inflorescentia varia. 
This curious genus is familiar to most persons who are even slightly acquainted with botany, on account of 
the irritability of the column of the combined stamens and style ; this is bent back with a double flexure, with its 
top reposing on the labellum of the corolla, and when irritated at the bend externally, it turns over with a sudden 
jerk, and rests on the opposite side of the flower, scattering the pollen in the operation. The genus Sty/idima may 
be distinguished from Forstera by the unequal lobes of the corolla, one of which forms a lip, by the double flexure 
of the irritable column, and by the undivided stigma. (Name from orvXos, a column ; in allusion to the column 
of stamens and style.) 
