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of tlie United States, and very probably Jussicea ramosa, Jacq., 

 figured in Eeich. Hort. Bot. cent. 1 to 75. AVe know not the 

 date of the latter name, or whether it is earlier or later than 

 Ludwiyia decurrens^ AValt. 



We come now to one that has so many names that it does not 

 know half of them. It is certainly J", salicifolia, Kth., as the 

 seeds clearly show. These are said to be hilocidar. But the 

 empty cell can l)e dispensed with, by calling it an enlarged raphe. 

 Perhaps this opinion will be confirmed by knowing that it is 

 full of raphides. It is easily separable from the true seed. 

 Sometliing similar is seen in Potantilla paradoxa. In this spe- 

 cies of Jussicjea the ovules are ascending, in three or tour series. 

 In the ripe fruit the seeds lie quite loose, and are very nume- 

 rous and unenclosed in any part of the endocarp. There is a 

 little groove on each side between itself and the raphe. 



Here belong : — the Cuban specimens numbered 159, ann. 

 1856-1857 and 1859-1860, wly. palustris, 2556, ann. 1860-1861, 

 " Pejidl. 115;" " Jl octonervia^ Spruce, 2113, San Gabriel da 

 Cocheira ad Eio JS'egro, Bras. Bor. Jan.-Aug. 1852;" ''No. 

 2227, coll. G. Maun, W. Trop. Africa ; " " J, exaltata, Eoxb., 

 Griffith, Malacca, 18;" "J. octojlla, DC, C. Wr., no. 83, Loo- 

 Choo Islands;" "Herb. Ind. Or. Hook, f et Thomps.," and 

 ^^ J. angustifolia, Lam. Ilex'b. Ind. Or. Ilook. f. et Thomps.;" 

 *' No. 2228, Herb, late East India Comp.:" some of the seeds have 

 the inflated raphe, others not, perhaps immature. A specimen from 

 Pondicherry, by Perollet, has the same seeds, and foliage within 

 the limits of variability. Mann and Bigham, no. 66, Oahu, is 

 the same, also " Juss. octojila^ DC, from Peru, in Herb. Gray, 

 distributed by the Smiths. Inst, from the Herb. U. S. Pacif 

 Expl. Exp. 1838-184^2 ; " item, a "plant collected by Wright on 

 the Eio Grande in 1848." A specimen from Grisebach, marked 

 J, occidentalism erased, and underneath, in the donor's handwriting, 

 J. Buffruticosa^ is also Kunth's J. salicifolia. This may seem like 

 heterodoxy on a "stampede." I do not ask any one to believe 

 as I do ; but please examine, and do not trust so much to hairs 

 and leaves. 



The distressing embarrassment I have so often felt when, having 

 before me a plaut which I could not doubt ought to be described 

 in the book to which I referred, I was yet quite unable to sa- 

 tisfy myself which it was, has led me to the careful and con- 

 scientious examination of the above-named plants. The order 

 merits a thorough revision. 



