anther, or in the language of Swarrz, the pollen-maffes, 
club-fhaped, lying each in a hollow, in which they are con- 
fined by. the ne@ary, one ray of which covers aright and left- 
hand Jobe of two different anthers. Upon the removal of this 
ftar the lobes of the anthers rife up, fometimes fuddenly with 
a {pring, fometimes more gradually, and, if touched with the 
point of a pin, difcharge a colourlefs fluid. sas 
We have been thus particular in defcribing thefe parts, 
becaufe being more fimple than in moft of the fpecies it feemed 
to throw fome light on their ufes. The five rays of the ftar 
pointing exa€tly to the centre of the corolla feem admirably 
calculated to direét a fluid pollen more furely to the real 
ftigmas lying immediately under their points. We would not — 
however fpeak with too much certainty of the perforation of 
the centre of the corolla, having ufed only a common lens, and 
not having obferved fuch an opening in any other fpecies that 
we have examined. 
The plant from which our drawing was made was fent us 
by Mr. Loppipnces of Hackney, in Auguft. It is a free 
blower, flowers coming in fucceflion through moft part of the — 
year. Has an ill fmell and little beauty to recommend it. | 
‘The Stapelias are generally kept in the dry ftove, but we learn 
from the Rev. Mr. Bate, that many of them thrive better, and 
flower with more certainty, if kept in the bark ftove and 
watered plentifully.. gees as 
