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wisely, — Schauer, the monographer of Climncdlauciem (Nov. Kdt. 

 Acad. Leopold.-Car, vol. xix. suppl. 2) has only subdivided it into 

 three sections, characterized partly by ^e structure of the calyx 

 and partly by that of the anthers As however the anthers show 

 but very minute and (except in two species only, viz. V. grandi- 

 flora and nohilis) by no means striking characters, we should 

 have thought it preferable to establish the sections chiefly, if not 

 exclusively, on the structure of the calyx, according to its liaving 

 three or two or only one series of lobes or appen<iages. Of these 

 different series of lobes, the innermost, and often the sole existing, 

 *. e, that whose lobes alternate with the petals and are always 

 coloured and deeply divided or fringed, is undoubtedly formed by 

 the free ends of the five sepals, and continuous with the tube 

 formed by the coalition of their inferior portion. But what are 

 the lobes of the accessory second and third series ? Without 

 presuming to decide this question, I may only say that, instead of 

 regarding them as a second and third whorl of (more or less 

 altered) sepals, we would rather consider them as mere appendages 

 of the calycinal leaves, analogous to those so commonly occurring 

 m Lythranece^ in certain Melastomac€(S {Otanthera, Blume; Lean- 

 dray Raddi ; Melastoma^ &c.), and even in some Myrtacem (species 

 ofAstartea, D.C. ; Lophostemon, Schott), or to the scales on the 

 <^alyx of certain species of Oaheclciay although the fixity of tbeir 

 number and position (those of one series constantly alternating 

 m the most regular manner with those of the next series) would 

 perhaps speak against our opinion ; while on the other hand the 

 10-lobed, 2-seriate calyx oi Pileanthus, and the doubled, trebled, 

 quadrupled, or even more increased number of stamens in the 

 plurality of genera of Mtjrtace<p, seem to indicate a tend( ncy in 

 this order to multiply the number and most probably also the 

 series or whorls of these organs. At all events, that inter- 

 pretation of the appendages in question which Dr. Schauer has 

 given in his Monograj)!!, appears, to say the least, very unsa- 

 tisfactory and arbitrary. AVhat I have designated (in V, chry- 

 sostacht/s, ociilafa and grandis) as the lobes of the first seri(^s, 

 Dr. Schauer mentions (though only en passant^ in the descrip- 

 tion of V. Lindleyi, pcjinigera and Drumviondii) under the name 

 oi''n?i(/ucs loborum'' (they are distinctly figured on his tab. 4. B. 

 %• 8, 9, litt. &), although they evidently do not originate from 

 the base, but from the upper part of the calyx, and always have 

 tbeir apex free, not adnate to the tube. AVhat I have de- 

 scribed as the reflexed and fringed membranous or petaloid lobes 



