BLOSSOM five-cleft, longitudinally cloven on the upper side, exposing the organs of generation. Summit cup-shaped, and fringed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. GOODENIA tenella, foliis prostratis, spathulatis, margine leviter pilosis. Flores plures, germinantes a duabus bracteis oppositis; corollis luteis: petalis duobus superioribus maculatis. Rami graciles, longi, emergentes a radice, terram comprimunt, et postea adscendunt. GOODENIA with slender stems, prostrate leaves which are spathula-shaped, with lightly haired margins. Flowers numerous, branching out from two opposite floral leaves. Blossoms yellow: the two upper petals are spotted. Branches slender, long, and emerging from the root, press the earth, and afterward ascend. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom spread open. 3. Seed-bud, chives, and pointal, magnified. This delicate new Goodenia represents the entire plant, as communicated to the author by the Comtesse de Vandes, in whose choice collection near Bayswater it flowered for the first time. It is certainly one of the most graceful plants hitherto introduced from New South Wales. Its general exterior approaches very near a generic division of Goodenia called Velleia, and is by Labillardiere figured under the title Velleia trinervis. The abundance and succession of its bright yellow blossom, joined to its light an airy appearance, will no doubt insure it a place in most collections. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCLXVII. LYTHRUM FRUTICOSUM. _Shrubby Lythrum._ CLASS XII. ORDER I. _DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Twelve Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, cylindraceum: denticulis duodecim, alternis minoribus. COROLLA. Petala sex, oblonga, obtusiuscula, patentia: unguibus in incisuras calycis insertis. STAMINA. Filamenta 12, longitudine calycis, supra: infra breviora. Antheræ simplices, incumbentes. PISTILLUM. Germen oblongum. Stylus subulatus, longitudine staminum, declinatus. Stigma orbiculatum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula oblonga, acuminata, loculamentis duobus tecta. SEMINA numerosa, parva. EMPALEMENT. Cup one-leaved, cylindrical, twelve-toothed: the alternate ones the smallest. BLOSSOM. Petals six, oblong, bluntish, and spreading: the ungues or claws are inserted into the divisions of the calyx. CHIVES 12 filaments the length of the calyx, above, shorter beneath. Tips simple, and lying on them. POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong. Shaft awl-shaped, the length of the stamens, bent downward. Summit orbicular. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule oblong, sharp-pointed, covered with two loculaments. SEEDS numerous, and small. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.