The oldest plant in our possession is about a foot and a half high, much branched, the stalks are round and smooth to the naked eye, green below, above purplish, the leaves are smooth, a deep bright green colour, alternate, standing on footstalks, which gradually widen into the leaves, somewhat ovate, and deeply toothed; the flowers grow in the alae of the leaves, forming a thin spike, they are sessile, of a pale violet colour, and have a peculiar smell which is rather unpleasant; at the side of each flower are two long narrow Bracteae; the Calyx, which is placed on the germen, is composed of five short ovate leaves, which appear edged with hairs if magnified; the Corolla is monopetalous, the lower part, which at first is tubular, splits longitudinally above, and forms a kind of half tube, the edges of which are brown, the inside yellow, the outside greenish, the mouth beset with short hairs, each of which is terminated by a small villous head; the limb is deeply divided into five linear segments, spreading out like a hand, and terminated by short points; the Filaments are five in number, of a whitish colour, somewhat broadest above, rather flat, inserted into the receptacle; Antherae oval, flattened, yellow, bilocular, a little bent, the length of the pistillum; but this is to be understood of such flowers as are not yet fully expanded, in those that are, they are much shorter, and appear withered; the Style, in flowers about to open, the length of the filaments, upright, in those that are opened much longer, and bent somewhat downward; Stigma at first upright, in the form of a cup, having the edge curiously fringed with white hairs, afterwards it closes together, loses its hollow, and assumes a flat appearance, and nods somewhat, the back part of it is bearded; Germen beneath the calyx, oblong, usually abortive with us. The name of _Goodenia_ has been given to this genus by Dr. SMITH, in honour of the Rev. SAMUEL GOODENOUGH, LL. D. of _Ealing_, my much-honoured friend, whose name will be ever dear to Botanists for his laborious investigation of the British Carices[4]. [Footnote 4: Vide a Dissertation on the British species of Carex, by Dr. GOODENOUGH, in the second volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society.] [Illustration: No 288] [288] PASSIFLORA CILIATA. FRINGED-LEAVED PASSION-FLOWER. _Class and Order._ GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Stamina germini vicina. _Nectarium_ multi-radiatum. _Antrum_ pedicellatum duplicatum 1-loculare. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ PASSIFLORA _ciliata_ foliis trilobis glabris ciliato serratis intermedio longissimo, petiolis eglandulosis. _Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 310._