rolla, single stamen, anther with two lobes, and seeds hav» 
ing a vifellus, a multiform variable viscus of far less fre- 
quent occurrence than. any’ of the others which belong to 
seeds; usually situated between the rudiment of the future 
plant and the albumen, from which, however, as well as 
the cotyledon, Mr. Brown thinks with Gartner, that it is 
essentially distinct, notwithstandiug the contrary opinion of 
some others, That of the Cannee, which agrees in most points 
with the preceding, he has distinguished by an anther with 
one lobe only, a seed without the vitel/us, and by the want 
of aroma, or by that which they have being very feeble. 
Mr. Edwards was favoured with the specimen from 
which the drawing was taken by Lord Caernarvon, who 
had.the kindness to send ìt from his seat at Highclere in 
Hampshire, in June last. As we had no opportunity of 
seeing the blossom after the drawing was made, we shall 
mot attempt its description. : 
The species was introduced in 1804, by Mr. Aylmer 
Bourke Lambert, from the East Indies, where it had been . 
discovered by Dr. William Roxburgh. -Like the whole 
order it requires to be kept in the hot-house; and is propa 
gated by parting the root. ; | 
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a The pisti. à Stamens. 
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