PLATE XXII. 



GOODENIA CALENDULACEA. 



Cape Mary gold-leaved Goodenid. 



CLASS V. ORDER I. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 



Calyx. Perianthium quadrifidum, fuperum, 



perfillens. 

 Corolla monopetala, iupra longitudinaliter 



fifla, genitalia exferens; limbo quinquefido, 



fecundo. 

 Stamina. Filamenta quinque, receptaculo in- 



ferta. Antheras lineares. 

 Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus fimplex. 



Stigma urceolatum, ciliatum. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga, bilocularb, 



bivalvis; diflepimento parallelo. 



Semina plura, fcabrida. 



SPECIFIC 

 Goodenia, foliis obovatis, crams, fcabridis; 

 floribus axilaribus, casruleis. 



Cup four-cleft, above, and re- 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. 

 maining. 



Blossom of one leaf, cleft longitudinally on the 

 upper fide, expofing the organs of fructifi- 

 cation ; border five-cleft, leaning one way. 



Chives. Five threads fixed into the receptacle. 

 Tips linear. 



Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft fimple. 

 Summit pitcher-fhaped, and fringed. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule qblong, with two cells, 

 and two valves; partition parallel to the 

 valves. 



Seeds many and rough. 



CHARACTER. 



Goodenia with inverfely egg-fhaped, thick rough 

 leaves; flowers fitting clofe to the iiem, and 

 blue. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower with all its parts complete. 



2. A Blofiom without the organs of fructification. 



3. The Chives, Pointal, and Seed-bud (magnified). 



The Goodenias are all natives of New Holland, and received their generic name of Dr. J. E. Smith, 

 Prefident of the Linnncan Society, in honour of the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, whole valuable difiertation 

 on the Britifh fpecies of Carex, does him the highett honour, as a botanilt. The fpecies of this genus 

 (as yet difcovered) are ten, from which we may infer that they are numerous; thole only yet intro- 

 duced to Britain are, the Lxvigata, ovata, and the prefent fpecies; the others are defcribed by the 

 Prefident, in the fecond volume of the Linnoean Tranfactions. This plant, though not to be ranked 

 amongft the handlbmeft productions of that country, fo replete with novelty, is yet ponelTed of fufh- 

 cient merit to give it a place in our collections of gieenhoufe plants, flowering about the month of 

 Auguft; delighting moft in an airy fituation, and light foil. It is eafily propagated by cuttings. Our 

 figure was taken from a plant which flowered at the Hammerfmith nurfery, in 1797; where it had 

 been railed from feeds, communicated by Colonel Paterfon, then commanding at Port Jackfon; to 

 whofe afiiduous labours in collecting feeds, &c. the cabinets and collections of our natural hiftorians 

 are fo very much indebted. 



