STIGMA three quarters of an inch long, attached to, and 
hitched on as it were to the tip of the ne@ary, 
roundifh, white, awl-fhaped, very vifcid, becoming 
as the flower decays of a deep purple brown colour, 
and ufually f{plitting into three pieces, continuing 
attached to the neétary till the neétary decays. 
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Mr. Farrsarrn, to whofe abilities and induftry the Com- 
panies Garden at Chelfea is indebted for its prefent flourifhing 
ftate, being defirous of obtaining ripe feeds, I had no oppor- 
tunity of examining the germen. 
Such were the appearances which prefented themfelves to 
us in the plant which flowered at the Chelfea Garden; that 
they are liable to confiderable variation is apparent from the 
figure of Mr. Mitiar, which appears to have been drawn 
from a very luxuriant fpecimen, as two {pathe grow from one 
flowering ftem, the ftigma is alfo remarkably convoluted, 
many other appearances are likewife reprefented, which our 
plant did not exhibit: in the figure given in the Hortus Kewen/is, 
the ftigma appears to have feparated from the ne@tary on the 
frft opening of the flower, and to be fplit into three parts, 
neither of which circumftances took place in our plant till 
they were both in a decaying ftate. 
