lar, 4-cleft, segments rolled back spirally, stamenbearing at 

 the top. Anthers protruded. Germen with two ovula. 

 Stigma subulate (awl-shaped). H^pogi/nous glandules 

 (small glandular bodies situated under the pistil) 4, some- 

 times distinct, sometimes connected. Receptacle flat, 

 chaffless (without palece, the hractes of an aggregate inflo- 

 rescence). Follicles * conaceously woody, unilaterally dehis- 

 cent, one-celled, somewhat cuneate (wedge-shaped), spear- 

 pointed on one side of the top, bicornous on the other, or else 

 with a pointless top, or in some instances echinated (beset 

 with prickles). The species constitute a group of beautiful 

 shrubs with leaves in whorls of threes and generally quite 

 entire. 



Formosa is distinguished from the rest by 7-flowered 

 involucres, having the interior leaflets even with the corolla, 

 hairy styles, follicles spear-pointed on one side bicornous 

 on the other, linearly lanceolate spear- pointedly tipped 

 leaves which are rolled back at the edge. 



In a luminous exposition of the nature of the inflo- 

 rescence in Compositcey Mr. Brown makes the following in- 

 cidental mention of Lambertia. " In all the known species 

 of this genus the leaves are verticillate, and uniformly in 

 threes : in f&rmosa and inermis the involucrum constantly 

 contains seven flowers, while in unijlora it is reduced to one 

 flower. The seven flowers of the former species I consider 

 as made up of two verticilli, in number of flowers cor- 

 responding with that of the leaves, and of a single central or 

 terminal flower; to which terminal flower unzflora appears 

 to be i-educed." Brown in trans, linn. soc. 12. 100. 



• When, in another part of this work, we defined foUickf '* an in- 

 dehiscent seedvesse!;" we regarded 'dehiscence* as technically limited to 

 the symmetrical disjunction of the valves of plurivalvular seedvessels, and not 

 comprehending the one-seeded opening of tlie univalvular ^inds. But we 

 were wrong. 



