This pretty little plant flowered in our green-house during 
the month of July 1821, being raised in a mixture of peat and 
loam from seeds sent during the preceding year from New Hol- 
land. Its dark, smooth and shining leaves, with the long, slen- 
der spreading scapes, each of which is terminated by two or four 
large and bright yellow flowers, which expand at the same time, 
render this plant a desirable subject for cultivation. Mr 
Brown, who found the species in New Holland, states that it 
is an inhabitant of the vicinity of Port Jackson ; and Smith, 
with whom the genus originated, tells us, under the article 
Velleia in Rees's Cyclopaedia, that the present individual is the 
only one of the genus which has made its appearance in the 
European gardens. No figure of the whole plant, as far as I am 
able to discover, exists in any work, except that of the Botani- 
cal Register, which was recently published from a specimen far 
more luxuriant than the one now delineated. The flower of 
this plant, under the name of V. spathulata, is represented in 
the 18th volume of the Annales du Museum d'Histoire Na- 
turelle, 1. 1. f. 3. and is connected with an interesting memoir 
written by M. De Jussieu, in which he endeavours to establish 
that Lobelia belongs to the same natural order as Velleia, and 
that the former should be the type of the order, affording the 
name to it. 
The Goodenia tehella (Bot. Reg. 1137.) is not the G. te- 
nella of Brown, but the Euthyales trinervis of the latter 
author, {Velleia trinervis of Labillardiere and Smith). 
In habit it is most closely allied to our plant, but differs gene- 
rically in the calyx, which is tubular and 5-cleft. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. Fig. 2. Back view of ditto. Fig. 3. Side 
view of a calyx. Fig. 4. Flower-bud removed from the calyx. Fig. 5. 
Expanded flower, removed from the calyx. Fig. 6. Pistils and sta- 
mens ; with the base of the corolla attached to the lower part of the 
germen. Fig. 7. Advanced germen. Fig. 8. Transverse section of 
the same.— more or less magnified. 
