they appear to be moll immediately incumbent upon the 

 itigma, a thin membrane, which has its insertion in the co- 

 rolla, is^nterpofed between them and it. Indeed the Itigma 

 itfelf, which in the natural order of Apocine^e is to differently 

 conftru£ted from Avhat is ufual in this organ, appears to be 

 rather an appendage of the corolla than of the germens. 

 But as it feems deftined to abfbrb the fertilizing fluid and 

 convey it to the ovaries, it thus performs the office of the 

 itigma, and we fee no reafon to call it by another name, as 

 Haller has done. 



All the fpecies of this genus are natives of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Communicated by Mr. Loddiges, in Sep- 

 tember 1801. 



