differs so much, as, perhaps, to render it a distinct order, to 
be hereafter divided into several genera, according to the 
number and form of the organs. ‘l‘his hint does not seem to 
have been pursued by any of his followers, as appears by the 
account given of Euphorbia, by Lamarck (Hncycl. Bot. 413.) 
Ventrenat (Tableau 3. p. 487.) Ricnarp (in Mich. Fl. 
Bor.-Am.2 p. 209.) and Decannouts (Fl. Franc. 3. p. 329.) 
but has been improved upon by Mr. Brown, who considers 
the part above the joint as the only true filament, and the part 
below as the peduncle. Of course, as the joint is quite naked, ' 
the flower, in this view, must be altogether destitute of peri- 
anthium ; the filiform scales, by some authors considered as 
such, being on this supposition analagus to bracteee. If this 
view of the structure be correct, Mr. Brown observes, that 
the true filament or part above the joint, should, as in other 
plants, be produced subsequent to the formation of the anther, 
and accordingly he finds, in every species that he has examined, 
that the anther is at first sessile, upon the part below the 
joint or the peduncle. The different surfaces of the parts above 
and below the joint in some species confirm the above view ; 
but it may be said to be absolutely proved, not only by an | 
unpublished genus of the same natural order, mentioned in 
the appendix above quoted, but still more directly by certain 
. species of Euphorbia itself, especially by one in the Banksian 
Herbarium, a native of Patagonia, in which the female flower 
is furnished with a manifest calyx, the footstalk of the ovarium 
terminating in three distinct and equal lobes of considerable 
length, and which, being regularly opposite to the cells of 
the capsule, may be compared to the three outer foliola of the 
perianthium of Phyllanthus, between which and the cells of 
- the capsule the same relation exists. Vide Trans. Linn. Soc. 
vol. 12. p. 99. note. | | , 7 
_ This very ornamental stove plant, native of Jamaica, is 
easily propagated by cuttings, or by seeds imported or pro-- 
duced here. Flowers from Christmas to Midsummer. In- 
troduced in 1778, by Marrnew Watusn, Esq. Our drawing 
was made several years ago, at Mr. Weeprorp’s, late of 
Vanxhall. eg 3 ‘ 
