ve 
Ps _ succulent, broséity, bi brittle die “Btems pdiiee from 
he same root, squame ovate-obtuse, 5 to 7 nerved, 
* nerves simple, rectilinear. _€ Corolla persistent, sumetimes 
Acs subtended by 2 or 3 bractes; petals channelled, erect, ad- 
“nate to the base of the germ, obsoletely 3-nerved, claws, * 
53 broad, cavernous. Filaments of the stamina pubescent, é 
_ alternated at the base by 10 short recurved filiform pro- 
=. eesses; anthers*cons: icuous, membranaceous, peltate, re- 
> mform, and jovizontal, partly inflated, 1-celled, furnished 
with 2 linear, transverse and puegivedsorareine, situated 
about: the side for the escape of pollen. Style 
‘seq y; stigma e sin gee orbicular, with 
= lepre: ul: i ‘internally 
ae : _ S-celled, 5-valved, 10- 
see ; ecdiat distinct ‘above, coalescing in the 
axis toads the base, margins of the valves connected by 
cancellate fibres. Seeds very iumerous and miniite, en- a 
‘ tirely similar to those of Pyr ola chlorantha, P. rotundifolia, © 
&e. presipting through a lens ahyaline nucleus, which is 
nearly rical, situated towards the centre of a mem- 
branacenus, integument, attenuated below and terminat- 
obtusely above. The seed is likewise.similar i in Hypopi- 
il these $ genera are distinctly allied to the 
& Pyrola, but the singular form and disposition of 
‘anthers interposes a difficulty of considerable mo-_ 
t against incorporating them With the natural order 
natural order, or section, oN 
Se as Bete: Cali 
ode and arising 
riled, © : 
