N a t . O rd . X L V I . GOODENOVIÆ, B r .
Gen. I. GOODENIA, Sm.
Calycis tubus ovario adnatus; limbus superus æqualiter 5-partitus. CoroUa unilabiata v. bilabiata.
Anthera distincte. Stylus simplex. Capmla 2-4-locularis. Semina imbricata, compressa.
A large .Australian and Tasmanian genus, of which one species is also common to New Zealand and the coast
of Chili, and others are found in v.irions tropical latitudes. The New Zealand species differs from the rest of the
genus in the corolla not being two-lipped, and its lobes, which are valvate, not being winged, whence the name
Selliera (given to it originally by Cavanilles) has been retained for it hy many botanists. The whole plant is but a
few inches long, succulent, creeping, herbaceous, generally growing near the sea. Leaves .alternate, fleshy, | inch
to 5 inches long, linear-spathulate or very long linear-ligulate, blunt, quite entire, nerveless; petiole half-clasping
the stem. Peduncles axillary, sohtary or two together, erect, one- to two-flowered, with two subulate bracts above
the middle. Calyx of five nearly equal lobes, superior. Corolla one-lipped ; lobes ovate, acute, not winged. Anthers
not united together. Style simple. Capsule, rather fleshy, two-celled, many-seeded. (Named in honour of Dr. S.
Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle, a writer on British Botany.)
1. Goodenia repens, Lab. ; glaberrima, subcarnosa, caule repente, foliis lanceolato-spatbulatis v. anguste
lineari-ligulatis integerrimis, pedunculis axillaribus v. biuis 1 - rarius 2-iloris foliis æquilongis v.
brevioribus supra medium 2-bracteolatis, corolla 1-labiata, laciniis apteris valvatis, capsula carnosa. Lai.
Fl. Nov. Holl. V. 1. p . 63. t. 76. Hr. Prodr. A. Cunn. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora. Selliera radicans,
Cavanilles, leones, v. h .p . 49. t. 4 7 4 . / 2. Goodenia radicans, HC. Prodr. Lobelia littoralis, Banks et
Sol. 3ISS. et Ic.
H ab. Northern aud Middle Islands. Abundant on all the coasts. Banks and Solander, etc. fiuapuke
Island, Lyall.
This curious little plant abounds on the Chilian coast, from Yaldivia to Valparaiso; and, aceordinv to Mr
Bridges, IS caUed “ Terba Santa Maria,” and used by the natives to cure wounds. It is very common on all the
Tasmanian shores. In New Zealand. Tasmanian, and Chihan specimens, the peduncles vaiy extremely in length
and are sometimes two-flowered. The length of the capsule also varies much; in some Valparaiso specimens it ié
club-shaped, and nearly half an inch long, the usual form in aU countries being broadly obovate and turgid. The
seeds are precisely alike in all states; they are pale, orbicular, compressed, with a narrow wing and compressed
dotted faces.
Note. The Soæoola Nova-Zelandia of A. Cunningham’s Prodromus is Hymenanthera crassifolia; see p. 17.
N a t . O r d . X L V I I . LOBELIACEÆ, .Jm.s.
Gen. I. COLENSOA, Hooh. fit.
Calyois tubus obovato-obconicus; lobis subulatis, æqualibus. Corolla bilabiata, dorso fissa; labii supe-
nons lobis 2 linearibus acntis, labio inferiore trifido. Anthera Uneari-oblongæ, apices versus piloso-tomontosæ,
inappendiculate. Stylus bifidus; lobis subæqualibus, divaricatis. Bacca globosa, coriaceo-carnosa, 2-locu-
lans, polysperma; ovula placentis discoideis peltatis axi affixis adnata. & » « globosa.—Herba ¿«si lignosa,
erecta, glabrata. Folia longe petiolata, serrata. Flores longe pedunculati, racemosi: racemis brevibu’s,
terminalibus, nutantibus. Corolla elongata, coerulea, genitalibus exsertis.
An erect, simple or sparingly branched herb, 3-3 feet high, woody at the base. Stem flexuose, smooth.
3-8 inches long, on slender petioles 3-5 inches long, ovate, acute, unequally sharply serrate, membranous, glabrous
or slightly haiiy. Racemes terminal, shorter than the leaves, six- to twelve-flowered. Peduncles more than an inch
long, bracteolate at the base. Calyx tube broadly obconic or turgid; lobes five, subulate, equal, \ inch long. Corolla
slightly curved, long ( i to 2 inches), downy, pale blue, obscurely two-lipped, split to the base down the upper
side ; upper lip of two lacinise, one on each side of the fissure, each linear, sharp; lower three-lobed, lobes spreading,
oblong, sharp. Stamens exserted; anthers firmly united, pubescent, and covered wdth long hairs towards the tips.
Style bifid, arms spreading. Berry globose, i inch diameter, between fleshy and leathery, two-celled; cells many-
seeded. Seeds globose, small, attached to broad peltate placentae in the axis of the beny.—This fine plant was considered
to belong to Lobelia by Mr. Cunningham, from which genus its berried fruit removes it, as also from the
division of that Natm-al Order to which Lobelia belongs, and places it with a curious group of berried congeners,
inhabitants of the Pacific Islands; and it is hence an instance of the alliance of the Polynesian Flora with that of
New Zealand. I have named it in honour of the Kev. W. Colenso, to whom 1 am so greatly indebted for investigating
the botany of the Northern Island.
1. Colensoaphysaloides, Hook. ill. Lobelia, A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 555 et 556.
H ab. Northern Island. Wangaroa and Matauri, R. Cunningham, etc.; North Cape, Hieffenbach.
Nat. name, “ Ora,”
Gen. II. PRATIA, Gaud.
Calycis tubus ovatus obovatusve ; lobis ovatis, superioribus paulo majoribus. CoroUa subcampanulata,
dorso fissa, 1-labiata ; lobis æquilongis. Anthera 2, inferiores v. omnes apice setosæ. Stylus bifidus ; lobis
extus pubemhs. Fructus baccatus, 2-locularis, polyspermus.-Herbæ parva, repentes, glabra ; succo aqueo;
ramis radicautibus. Folia alterna. Pedunculi solitarii, axiUares, \-jiori.
Small creeping herbs, with rooting branches and alternate leaves, smooth or slightly liaiiy. PeduncUs axillary^
solitaiy, one-ilowered. Calyx tube ovate ; lobes ovate, the upper rather the larger. Corolla bell-shaped, with a
short tube split down the back to the base, and five rather spreading, equal, ovate lobes. StyU wfitli two short
spreading stigmatic arms. Anthers all. or the two lower, with a few bristles at theii- tips. Berry turgid, twocelled,
many-seeded.—This genus is confined to the temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere as far as at
present known, except the Indian Piddingtonia be included, as it should probably be. (Named in compliment to
M. M. Prat-Bernon, a brother-ofiicer of M. Gaudicliaud’s in Freycinet’s voyage.)
1. Pratia angulata. Hook, fil.; glaberrima, ramis prostratis elongatis radicantibus, foliis breve petiolatis
obovatis oblongis ovato-rotundatisve grosse sinuato-dentatis, pedunculis plerumque gracilibus elongatis
ebracteolatis. Fl. Antarct. p . 4 \. hoheMa. wgdPitu, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. Forst. Prodr. A. Rich.
Flora. L. angulata et L. littoralis, A. Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. v. 1. p. 366.
V.ar. a ; foliis rotundatis siuuato-dentatis breve petiolatis, pedunculis elongatis.
Var. elongata, foliis obovatis repando-dentatis, pedunculis longissimis, calycis lobis subulatis.
Var. y. arenaria; foliis breve petiolatis ut in var. a, pedunculis folio brevioribus v. brevissimis. P.
arenaria, Fl. Antarct. p . 41. (. 29.
H ab. Throughout the Islands, in damp places ; abundant. Banks and Solander, etc.
All exceedingly variable plant in the length of the stem (3-10 inches), distance between the leaves ( i - l | inch),
shape of these, rotundate to obovate, and theii- length (B-f inch), in the length of their petiole, which never exceeds
a fourth of that of the leaf, depth and form of toothing and waving, and above all in the length of the
peduncle, which is very short, with almost sessile flower and fruit, or 6 inches long, erect and slender. In the ‘ Flora
Antarctica ’ I made a new species, P. arenaria, from Lord Auckland’s Group, whose main character depended on
its almost sessile flowers, but I find nearly as short pcdmieles in Dr. LyaU’s Dusky Bay specimens, gathered with
others considerably longer. The corolla varies in length aud is sometimes a little hairy.