single flower): Spathe of several bractes, which are oval, 
acuminate, membranaceous, one to each flower. Flowers 
yellow, pedunculated, opening at noon, and in the even- — 
ing, at first erect, afterwards deflexed: Peduncles three- 
sided, enlarged upwards, with reddish angles. Calyx three- 
leaved, green: leaflets oval, concave, obtuse, opposed to 
the sides of the peduncle, after deflorescence conniving © 
over the petals, in exstivation imbricate. Petals three, — 
twice the size of the calyx, very thin, roundish, semidia- — 
phanous, nerved, wrinkled, yellow, colour more intense at — 
the base ; after deflorescence gradually rolled inwards ’till — 
they are inclosed within the calyx. Stamens very many, — 
yellow, inserted into the disk in several rows, longer than — 
the ovarium (germen) ; Filaments ligular, outer ones ste- — 
rile, inner ones perfect, connivent over the stigmas: An- — 
thers, small, white, attached to the front of the filament, — 
two-celled: cells approximate, bursting lengthwise. Pollen — 
spherical, naked. Ovariwm (Germen L.) oval, with sixteen’ — 
streaks. Stigmas sixteen, sessile, radiating just in the same’ 
manner as in Nympuaa.” Fruit (not quite ripe when ex- — 
amined) globular marked, with the persistent stigmas in — 
rays, easily separable into sixteen capsules or carpella, with — 
membranous sides slightly connected together at the centre — 
and more firmly at the base, when separated opening on ~ 
the inner edge to discharge the seeds. Seeds oblong, sca- 
brous, bent like a horse-shoe, with the two ends meeting — 
and united, attached to the membranous sides of the car- — 
pella; according to M. Ricuarp, the embryo takes the 
same horse-shoe form. 
~ We had no opportunity of examining this plant when — 
growing, and are indebted for the above description to the — 
kindness of Mr. Linpxey for the use of his manuscript latin — 
notes. ‘These were taken before the formation of the fruit’; — 
but the communication, by the same gentleman, ofa recent — 
unripe fruit, enabled us to add the description of that also. — 
‘The genus Limnocnaris has been very properly detached — 
from Atisma by Humsotpr and Bonrxanp, from which it~ 
differs entirely in the number of stamens, and also in having — 
numerous seeds, with a parietal insertion. In the latter 
character it resembles the genus Buromus. ALIsMA was 
placed by Jussieu in his natural order of Junci; but Ds 
Canpo.te established a family of Alismacee, in which he 
has been followed by Mr. Rosert Brown. M. Ricard — 
has again separated three genera, viz. Butomus, HypRo-_ 
cLeys, and Limnocuaris, and made of them a distinct fa-_ 
mily, to which he has applied the name of Butomee, an — 
order adopted by Kunrn, in his Synopsis. : si 
Drawn at the Horticultural Society’s garden, in July last. 
