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1 5 6 FLORA OF NEW ZE.ALAND. [L o b e lia c eæ .
N a t . Ord. XLVI. GOODENOVIÆ, Br.
Gen. I . G O O D EN IA , Sm.
Calycis tu iu s ovario a d n a tu s ; limbus superus æqualiter 5-p artitu s. CoroUa unilabiata v. bilabiata.
Antheroe d istin c te . Sty lus simplex. Capsula 2-4 -lo cu laris. Semina imbricata, compressa.
A large Australian and Tasmanian genus, of wbich one species is also common to New Zealand and the coast
of Chili, and others are found in various 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
SeUiera (given to it originally by Cavanilles) has been retained for it by many botanists. The whole plant is but a
few inches long, succulent, creeping, herbaceous, generally growing near the sea. Leaves alternate, fleshy, i inoli
to 5 inches long, liuear-spathiilate or veiy long linear-ligulate, blunt, quite entire, nerveless ; petiole half-clasping
the stem. Peduneles axillary, solitary 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 muted together. Style simple. CapsuU rather fleshy, two-celled, many-seeded. (Named in honour of Dr. S.
Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle, a writer on British Botany.)
1. Goodema repens, L a b .; glaberrima, subcarnosa, caule repente, foliis lanceolato-spathulatis v. ang
uste Ime ari-liguktis integerrimis, pedunculis axillaribus v. biuis 1- rariu s 2-floris foliis æquilongis v.
brevioribus supra medium 2-bracteolatis, corolla 1-labiata, laciniis apteris valvatis, capsula carnosa. La.b.
F t. Nov. Ho lt. V. 1. p . B3. t. 76. B r . Prodr. A. Cunn. Prodr. A. R ich . Flora. Selliera radicans,
Cavamlles, leones, v. h .p . 4 9 . t. 4 7 4 . / . 2. Goodenia radicans, DC. Prodr. Lobelia littoralis. B ank s et
Sol. M S S . et Ic.
H a b . N o rth e rn and Middle Islands. Abundant on a ll th e coasts. Ba n k s a n d Solander, etc. Euapiike
Island, L ya ll.
This curious little plant abounds on the Chilian coast, from Valdivia to Valparaiso ; and, according to Mr.
Bridges, is eaUed “ Terba Santa Maria,” and used by the natives to cure wounds. I t is very commou on all the
Tasmaman shores. In New Zealand, Tasmanian, and Chiban specimens, the peduncles vary extremely in length
and are sometimes two-flowered, Tbe length of the capsule also varies mnch; in some Valparaiso specimens it i¡
club-shaped, and nearly half an inch long, the usual form in all countries being broadly obovate and turgid. The
seeds are precisely alike m all states ; they are pale, orbicular, compressed, with a narrow wing and compressed
dotted faces.
N o te . The SemoU Novæ-Zelandiæ of A. Cunnmgham’s Prodromus is Hymenanthera crassifolia ; see p. 17.
N a t . Oed, XLVII. LOBELIACEÆ, -Jms.
Gen. I . COLENSOA, m o k . f d .
Calycis tubus obovato-obconicus; lobis subulatis, æqualibus. Corolla bilabiata, dorso fissa; labii supe-
n o n s lobis 2 bnearibus acutis, labio inferiore trífido. Antheroe bneari-oblongæ, apices versus piloso-tomentosæ,
inappendiculatæ. S ty lu s bifidus ; lobis subæqualibus, divaricatis. Bocea globosa, coriaceo-carnosa, 2-locu-
laris, polysperma; ovula placentis discoideis peltatis axi afflxis adnata. Semina globosa.— Ile rb a basi lignosa,
erecta, glabrata. Folia longe p etio la ta , serrata. Flores longe p edunculati, racemosi; racemis hrevibu's
terminahbus, nutantibus. Corolla elongata, coerulea, genitalibus exsertis.
An erect, simple or sparingly branched herb. 2 -3 feet high, woody at the base. Stem flexuose. smooth.
FLORA Lobeliacea?) OF NEW ZEALAND, 157
3 -8 inches long, on slender petioles 3-5 inches long, ovate, acute, unequally sharply serrate, membranous, glabrous
or slightly hairy. Racemes terminal, shorter than the leaves, six- to twelve-flowered, Peduneles more than an inch
long, bracteolate at tbe base. Oalyx tube broadly obconic or tu rg id ; lobes five, subulate, equal, i iuch long. Corolla
sliglitly curved, long ( i to 2 inches), downy, pale blue, obscurely two-lipped, split to the base down the upper
side ; upper lip of two laciuim, 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 with long hairs towards the tips.
StyU bifid, arms spreading. Berry globose, A inch diameter, between fleshy and leathery, two-celled; cells many-
seeded. Seeds globose, small, attached to broad peltate placentas in the axis of the berry.—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 ot that Natural 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 Plora with that of
New Zealand. I have named it iu honour of the Rev. W. Colenso, to whom 1 am so greatly indebted for investigating
the botany of the Northern Island.
1. Colensoaphysaloides. Hook. fil. Lobelia, A . Cmm. Prodr. DC. Prodr. Hook. Ic. P la n t. A 555 ei o.o6.
H a b . Noi'thern Islan d . Wangaroa and Matauri, R . Cunningham, etc .; N o rth
N a t. name, “ Oru,” '
Gen. I I . P EA T IA ,
Calycis tu b u s ovatus obovatusve; lobis ovatis, superioribus paulo majoribus. Corolla subcampanulata,
dorso fissa, 1-labiata ; lobis æquilongis. Antheroe 2, inferiores v. omnes apice setosæ. S ty lu s bifidus ; lobis
extus puberulis. Fructus baccatus, 2-locnlaiis, polyspermus.— Herbæ parvæ, repentes, glabræ; sueco agueo;
ramis radicantibus. F o lia alterna. P ed u u cu li solitarii, axillares, \-jiori.
Small creeping herbs, with rooting branches and alternate leaves, smooth or slightly hairy. PeduncUs axillary^
solitaiy, one-flowered. Calyx tube ovate ; lobes ovate, the upper rather the larger. Oorolla bell-shaped, with a
short tube split down the back to the base, and five rather spreading, equal, ovate lobes. Style ivith two short
spreading stigmatic arras. Anthers all, or the two lower, with a few bristles at their tips. Berry turgid, two-
celled, 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 coraplimeiit to
M. M. Prat-Bernmi, a brother-officer of M. Gaudicliaud’s in Freycinet’s voyage.)
1. P ra tia angulata, Hook. fil. ; glaberrima, ramis p rostratis elongatis radicantibus, foliis breve petiolatis
obovatis oblongis ovato-rotundatisve grosse sinuato-dentatis, pedunculis plerumque gracilibus elongatis
ebracteolatis. Fl. A n ta r c t.p . YV. Eoháia. Ba n k s et Sol. M S S . et le . Forst. Prodr. A. Rich.
Flora. L. angulata et L. littoralis, A . Cunn. Prodr. DC. Prodr. v . b . p . 366.
Var. a ; foliis rotunda tis sinuato-dentatis breve petiolatis, pedunculis elongatis.
Var. elongata, foliis obovatis repando-dentatis, pedunculis longissimis, calycis lobis subulatis.
Var. 7 . arenaria; foliis breve petiolatis u t in var. a, pedunculis folio brevioribus v. brevissimis. P.
arenaria, Fl. A n ta r c t.p . 4 1 . t. 29.
H a e . Th roughout th e Islands, iu damp places ; abundant. B a n k s 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 tbeh Iciigtli (j—l- inch), in the length of theii' petiole, which never exceeds
a fourth of that of the le.af, depth and form of toothing and waving, aud above all iu the length of the
peduncle, which is very short, with almost sessile flower and fruit, or 6 inches long, erect and sleuder. In the ' Flora
Antarctica ’ I made a new species, P. arenaria, from Lord Auckland’s Group, whose main character depended on
its almost sessile ilowers, but I find nearly as short peduncles in Dr. Lyall’s Dusky Bay specimens, gathered with
others considerably longer. The corolla varies in length and is sometimes a little hairy.