The plant from which our drawing was taken, was 
raised in 1824, among a multitude of other curious things, 
by Mr. Mackay, of the Belgrave Nursery, Pimlico, at his 
establishment, Upper Clapton. The seed had been col- 
lected at King George’s Sound, by Mr. William Baxter. 
A pretty little shrub, producing its delicate orange- 
coloured flowers in June. 
The indusium, or peculiar covering to the stigma, is 
highly curious, and much developed in this plant, forming 
a compressed, two-lipped purple cup, covered with soft 
down on the outside, and completely enclosing the green 
viscid stigma which occupies the lowest part of its cavity. 
It appears to serve the purpose of scooping the pollen out 
of the anthers of the flower to which it belongs, and 
retaining it there while necessary; at least all the indusia 
we have examined were uniformly filled with granules of 
pollen. With respect to the nature of that singular organ, 
or appendage itself, we can have no opinion to offer so 
valuable as that already given upon the subject by Mr. 
Brown, inhis General: Remarks upon, the-Botany of New 
Holland, appended to Captain Flinders’s Voyage. — 
«This order I have formerly separated from Campanula- 
ceé, considering the peculiar membranous cup surrounding 
the stigma, along with a certain irregularity in the corolla, 
as sufficient distinguishing characters, especially as these 
are accompanied by other differences which appear to me 
important. In Goodenovie I have not included Lobelia, 
which, however, has also an irregular corolla, and although 
it wants the peculiar indusium of the stigma, has in its 
place a fasciculus or pencil of hairs surrounding that organ. 
his structure has been regarded by Jussieu and Richard, 
in a very learned memoir more recently written on the 
-subject, analogous to the indusium of Goodenoviz, to which 
they have therefore added Lobelia, and derived the name 
of the order from this, its most extensive and best known 
genus. To the opinion of these authors I hesitate to 
accede, chiefly for the following reasons: - 
Ist. In Goodenovie, the deeper fissure of the tube of 
the corolla exists in its inner or upper side, a circumstance 
readily determined in those species having simple spikes. 
In Lobelia, on the other hand, the corresponding fissure 1s 
