Mr. Brown was so obliging as to point out to us the 
description and figure of M. Desfontaines, and consequently 
the station of the plant in M. Decandolle's Prodromus. 
Description of the Dissections. 
1. Aleaf. 2. The sepals, stamens, and ovarium, the petals having 
been taken away. 3. A stamen. 4. An ovarium, with the stigmas. 
5. A transverse section of the ovarium. 6. An ovulum; a, the fora- 
men; 6, the stalk. 7. A capsule, the calyx and involucrum being 
torn away, all more or less magnified. 8. Seeds, natural size. 9. À 
seed very much magnified; 6, hilum; a, point answering to the 
foramen. 10. A longitudinal section of the same. 11. The embryo 
separate, much magnified. E 
