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we may safely add the present one, whose leaves, especially 
about the nerves, stems, and calyx, are thickly clothed 
with patent aculei, and whose capsule is so entirely covered 
with them that nothing but the stigma is seen. The colour of 
the flower, which is here of a delicate rose tint, may possi- 
bly vary; yet as colour appears constant in other species, it 
will probably prove so in this. It is perhaps not uncommon 
in the countries of the Pacific. I possess the same species, 
gathered by Mr. Menzies in the Sandwich Islands: and it 
is probably the 4. Mexicana of Schlechtendal and Chamisso, 
in the Ist vol. of the Linnza, p. 552. This they unite with 
one from the Philippine Isles, and with an East Indian species 
from Dr. Roxburgh, and say that it differs from the Bra- 
zilian plant, * caule ssepe numero spinis reversis horridis- . 
simo, capsula copiosioribus minoribusque spinis obsita, 
que in Americans majores sunt et parcee.”—The true A. 
Mexicana is indeed also found in Chili, and I have very fine 
specimens from Valparaiso, sent by Mr. Bridges, retaining 
all their true characters. 
| Ill, CAPPARIDEJE. Juss. 
Gynandropsis pentaphylla ; glabriuscula, foliis mediis 
; 5-foliolatis, infimis floralibusque 3-foliolatis, foliolis 
integris subserrulatisve. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 238.— 
Cleome pentaphylla. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 938. Bot. Mag. 
_ 41681. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 122. i 
Has. Lurin, near Lima. 
^ IV. POLYGALEJE. Juss. 
1. Monnina nemorosa ; foliis elliptico-oblongis acutis mucro- 
Satie (vel obtusis) basi angustatis et revolutis obsolete 
denticulatis subvenosis crassiusculis glabris, junioribus 
. ramulisque pubescentibus, racemis bifidis simplicibusv® 
DC.—Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. p. 410. t, 504. De Cand. 
à Prodr. v. 1, p. 339. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p- yr 
.. Hebeandra mucronata. « Bonpl. Ges. Berl. 1808. p. 40.” 
resembles this plant, that I can scarcely think they - 
