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n. - A genus of shrubs and herbs that grow in Australia and New Guinea and Malaysia and southeast Asia.

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  • Goodenia grandiflora, Sims, Botanical Magazine 890.
  • I found a shrubby prickly Goodenia, about four or five feet high, growing on the borders of the scrub.
  • In the same journal (1885-6, page 157, and IX., 1894, page 201) Hamilton has given a number of interesting observations on Goodenia, Scaevola,
  • This statement, which we imagine Mr. Bentham must have had from an unpublished source, was incomprehensible to him as long as he confined his work to such genera as...
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