Goodenia
(named in honour of Dr. Samuel Good-enough 1743-1827, Bishop of Carlisle, author of a monograph of the genus Carex, published in the "Linnaean Transactions"). ORD. Goodenovieae. A genus containing about seventy species of greenhouse herbs or sub-shrubs, rarely shrubs, limited to Australia. Flowers yellow, purplish, or blue; peduncles either axillary or in terminal racemes or panicles. Leaves alternate or radical. Goodenias thrive in a compost of peat and loam. Propagated by cuttings, which root freely under a bell glass, during spring. The species described below are those usually seen in cultivation. G. grandiflora (large-flowered). fl. yellow, more or less streaked with purple, large; corolla glabrous or slightly pubescent outside; peduncles axillary, one-flowered. July. l. petiolate, from broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, truncate or cordate at the base, toothed. h. 3ft. to 4ft. 1803. Herbaceous. (B. M. 890; B. R. 1845, 29.) G. laevigata (smooth). A synonym of Scaevola microcarpa. G. ovata (ovate). fl., corolla yellow, glabrous outside; peduncles axillary, often two together or forked near the base, slender and often several-flowered. July. l. petiolate, from ovate to broadly lanceolate, or the lower ones sometimes almost orbicular-cordate, denticulate, 1in. to 2in. long. h. 2ft. to 4ft. An erect, glabrous. often somewhat viscid shrub or under-shrub. (A. B. R. 68.) G. stelligera (star-haired). fl. yellow, sessile or nearly so, in clusters of two or three, the upper ones solitary, in a long, interrupted spike; corolla densely villous outside. June. l., radical ones linear, or slightly linear-acute, obtuse, rather thick, entire; stem ones very few, and much shorter; floral ones reduced to linear bracts. Stems erect, almost leafless. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. 1823. Perennial.
G. tenella (tender). A synonym of Velleia trinervis.