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former, B. pseudoverticillata, Mart. & Gal., is a not un 

 a state of B. sessiliflora, H. B. K. ; B. oUusifolia is identica 



with 



to me. The ten published by Kunth appear to be chiefly slight 



Mexican 



a critical comparison with wild specimens of these very vairiable 

 plants, it is impossible to form any plausible opinion respecting 



luitil 



specmiens shall have been 

 with the genus in general. 



On the other hand, two Madagascar plants retamed as ±5uad- 

 leias in the * Prodxomus,' B. diversifolia of Vahl and my own B. 

 roTtdeletice/loray must be removed, as forming Tenore's genus I^tco- 

 demia. "With precisely the flowers and ovary of Buddleia they 

 bear, instead of a capsule, an indehiscent berry, not perhaps so 

 fleshy as in most of the Fagrceece, but white, and filled with a 

 juicy pulp in which the seeds are immersed. This increases much 



adhering 



racters 



in everything but the f 

 it seems very vmnatural 

 Many such unnatural se 



all 



In 



'WW, Wall., is figured 



hurry 



The 



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a mountain excursion, and never intended to be retained, 

 nnrevised publication of all these fugitive memoranda is much to 

 be regretted, as tending to do irreparable and most undeserved 

 injury to the reputation of so eminent a botanist, with those who 

 ere unacquainted with the circumstances of the case. 







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14. Ge>'tosxoma, Forsf. 



This 



j^ned?: 



the ovary is superior, although attached by a very broad 

 base. The corolla has the contorted aestivation of the Ape 

 and the fruit is not so xuilike as has been generally suj ^ 

 The two thick concave valves cohering at the base and curved 

 outwards, each crowned by one of the styles, which, though als<) 

 long cohering, ultimately separate, are very much like two foll^" 

 cles. The placentae generally form one central column, but m 

 •Bome species they separate and turn back with the valves. CfenUf 



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