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VELLEIA lyrata. 
Lyrate-leaved Velleia. 
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44 f of ——a— 
ee | PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
‘ Nat, ord. CAMPANULACER. Jussieu gen. 165. Div. I. Anthere dis- 
' tinctz. 
GooDENOovim. Brown'prod. 1. 573. Sect. I. Semina in- 
definita. 
VELLEIA. Cal. inferus, 3-5-phyllus, inequalis. Corolla tubo basi 
germini accreto, apice hinc fisso; limbo bilabiato, Anthere distincte. Stylus 
indiyisus. Glandula epigyna inter filamenta 2 anteriora. Capsula basi bilo- 
culari, valvis bipartitis. Semina imbricata, compressa. __ 
 Herbee acaules. Folia radicalia subspathulata; sepiis dentata, nune 
_ lyrata. Scapi dichotomi, axillis plerisque floriferis, bracteis oppositis, fo- 
_ hiaceis, quandoque maximis et nunc connatis. Calycis foliolum superius 
__latius, et bast sepe dentatum. Corolla flava, basi adherenti infra gibbd v. 
aa calcarata. Stylus subtetragonus. Stigmatis indusium maximum. Brown 
prod. 1. 580. 
Sect. I.—Calyx 3-phyllus. Corolla basi hinc gibbosiuscula. Velleive vere. 
Brown prod. 1. 580. P 
V. lyrata, glabra, bracteis dichotomiarum distinctis, foliis lyratis basive 
inciso-dentatis, calycis foliolis ovato-orbiculatis. Brown loc. cit. 
Velleia spathulata. Jusstew in ann. du muséum 18. 17. t. 1. fig. 4; (non 
Brownet in loc. cit. pro qué tamen a Jussieuio male habetur ). 
A species now first introduced by Mr. Lee into the 
Hammersmith nursery, where the drawing was taken from 
a plant in one of the greenhouses. It is the only one of the 
enus that has appeared in our gardens; and was originally 
_ observed by Mr. Brown in New Holland, growing in the 
neighbourhood of Port Jackson. Flowersin April. 
The species has been mistaken by Messrs. Jussieu and 
Richard, in the Annales du Museum, for spathulata of 
the Prodromus of New Holland; one belonging to a far 
distant quarter of that country, and as Mr. Brown thinks 
very unlikely to have come into the possession of those cele- 
brated Botanists. — iat 
To observe the original form of the stigma with its sur- _ 
rounding indusium which is the main feature of this natural 
order, that organ must be inspected at a very early stage of 
its appearance, and long before the flower expands. It sub- 
