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and pistils partly petaloid. Furthermore, in some of the flowers 
which Dr. Moore was kind enough to forward me for examination 
I found not only an increase in the number of petals, especially 
of the labella, but also central floral prolification—a small raceme, 
that is, standing up in the centre of the flower in the situation 
usually occupied by the column, here entirely wanting. What is 
very remarkable also is, that each of the accessory flower-buds is 
again the subject of prolification. This is, I believe, the first 
recorded instance of median floral prolification in this natural 
order, and as such should be added to the list given in my paper 
on that subject*. 
Observations on the Morphology and Anatomy of the: Genus 
Restio, Linn., together with an Enumeration of the South 
African Species. By Maxwetu T. Magers, M.D., F.L.S. 
[ Read April 16, 1863.] 
[Prarzs XIV. & XV.] 
For the opportunity of studying the genus Zestio, or more pro- 
perly speaking, the South African species of that group, I am 
especially indebted to the kindness of Drs. Hooker and Sonder, 
and of Professors Harvey and Daubeny. These gentlemen have 
with great liberality placed their collections at my disposal for 
study and examination, and I can only regret that my imperfect 
leisure and the pressure of other avocations should have prevented 
me from repaying their kindness by laying before the Society a 
more perfeet account of these plants than is to be found in the 
following observations. Crude and ill-digested as they may be, I 
would yet hope that they may be of some little service to botanists, 
as, from the abundant material at my disposal, I trust I have been 
able to rectify some errors into which my predecessors in this field 
have fallen from want of sufficient evidence. Dr. Sonder's collec- 
tions have been of especial service to me, not only from being 
more complete and copious than any other, but also because they 
contain many of Nees von Esenbeck's typical species, labelled by 
the author himself, and frequently also accompanied by manuscript 
notes. 
The origin of the genus Restio is somewhat curious. It was 
first published by Linnzust, not before it had been recognized as 
* Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 369. 
+ Syst. Nat. ed. 12. tom. ii. p: 735, Addenda, anno 1766. 
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