PLATE LXVIII. 
GOODENIA OVATA. 
Oval-leaved Goodenta. 
CUASS:-¥. ORDER 1 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
2 A 1} 1 Fs 
Coro.ta fupra longitudinaliter fiffa, genitalia | Briossom long fide, 
exferens, quinquefida. Stigma urceolatum, expofing the organs of generation, ‘and five- 
ciliatum, cleft. Summit cup-fhaped, and fringed. 
See GoopENIA CALENDULACEA. Plate XXII. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Goodenia with egg-fhaped leaves, fawed at the 
edges; bloffoms yellow, the two outer feg- 
ments grow upright. 
Goodenia foliis ovatis, ferratis; corollis luteis, 
laciniis duobus exterioribus ere¢tis. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 
1. The Empalement and Seed-bud. 
2. A Bloffom, with the parts of frudtification attached. 
3. The Chives, and Pointal (magnified). 
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In the fecond volume of the Linnzan Tranfactions, Dr. Smith enumerates ten fpecies of the genus 
; this fpecies makes an addition to the number. The oval-leaved Goodenia is a half woody 
plant, aking long willow-like branches, which moftly decay in the winter, though a great part of 
t remains; it is a hardy greenhoufe plant, requiring little trouble either to keep or propagate; 
the latter of which is done by cuttings. About the year 1793, a parcel of feeds was received by Mefirs. 
Lee and Kennedy, fent to them by Colonel Paterfon from Port Jackfon, New Holland; amongft them, 
the feeds of this plant; it neverthelefs did not flower till the year 1798, about the month of June. 
It is certainly a defirable plant, never failing to fiower from June till September, if kept growing in 
vigour, which it will furely do if planted in light peat earth. 3 
