form lacinia, or appendages, most numerous on the out- 
_ side of the segments: these are downy when seen under a 
microscope. The upper surface of the receptacle is cover- 
ed with numerous papille, of two kinds, the one perfo- 
rated and covering the cell of the female flowers; the 
other, which are of a purple colour, when examined care- 
fully, are formed of two concave hemispherical downy 
scales, each enclosing a stamen, of which the filament is 
short, and terminated by two nearly-white globular cells, 
opening by a transverse fissure. Pistil having an ovate 
germen, from the side of which springs the style with an 
incrassated base, tapering upwards, and dividing into two 
rather short filiform spreading stigmata. The style is pro- 
truded through the aperture in the tubercle above men- 
tioned, while the whole of the germen is immersed. 
This very curious species of DorsTeniaA was communi- 
cated by the Horticultural Society of London to the Liver- 
pool Botanic Garden, where it flowered in the month of 
April, 1826 ; but of what particular country it is a native 
I am ignorant. In the shape of the leaves it is most nearly 
allied to the young foliage of D. arifolia, which is, how- 
ever, smaller, destitute of that roughness, which, in the 
present species, is scarcely sensible but to the touch, and 
they are decidedly sagittate. The receptacle is very sin- 
gular and quite different from that of every other species 
with which I am acquainted*. 
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* Thad called this species D. bifida, but just as ive on the point of 
sending the MSS. to the press, I received che 122d No. of Mr. Eeppiews 
Botanical Cabinet, where I find that it bears the name I have now adopted. 
It is said to be a native of South America; but of what part is not 
Fig. 1. Section of one of the Segments of the Receptacle. 2. Under side 
of a portion of ditto. 3. The two Seales constituting the tubercle or papille 
Reese, ages the Male Flower, 4, Stamen. 5, Pistil:—More or less 
magnified, 
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