Onagraricée— Anothera. 199 
4, GENOTHERA (including Godétia). 
Herbs, rarely frutescent. Leaves membranous, sessile or 
petiolate, entire, lobed, or pinnatifid. Flowers usually large 
and showy, axillary, sessile, or pedunculate. Calyx-tube pro- 
duced above the seed-vessel, lobes often reflexed and deciduous. 
Petals 4, not clawed, entire. Stamens 8. Capsule mem- 
branous or woody, costate, clavate, tetragonal, polygonal or 
winged. Seeds few or many, with or without an appendage. 
There are nearly 100 species, with the exception of one Tas- 
manian species, of American origin. The etymology of the 
name is not satisfactorily explained. 
Godétia was formerly separated on 
insufficient grounds; but it may 
be remarked that there are no 
yellow-flowered species belonging to 
this section, and in @néthera they 
are either yellow or white, with one 
or two exceptions. The species are 
very similar in appearance, there~ 
fore a small selection will suffice. 
l. &. rubictinda, syn. Godétia 
rubictinda (fig. 106). An erect 
annual about 2 feet high with 
lilac-purple flowers having a deeper 
coloured blotch at the base of each 
petal. One of the most desirable 
species. Under cultivation it has 
produced a beautiful blush-white 
and other varieties. 
2. Ei. Whitneyi, syn. Godetia 
grandiflora.—An annual of recent 
introduction. This is a magnificent 
species, of dwarf compact habit, 
bearing a profusion of rosy-red 
flowers blotched with crimson, and Fig. 106. Genothera rubicunda. 
from 38 to 4 inches in diameter. elias 
Other handsome species of the Godétia section are:—@. 
voseo-dlba, rosy purple and white, @. Lindleyana, purple, also 
with double flowers, and @. réptans, a trailing species with 
rose-purple spotted flowers. 
3. GE. biénnis. Tvening Primrose.—This is the species first- 
