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[TAB. XXVII.] 



MONOCLEA CRISPATA. 



Cryptogamia Hepatic^. Nat. Ord. Hepaticje 



Gen. Char. Receptaculum commune fructus nullum. Cap- 

 sula pedunculo calyce longiori insidens, univalvis, hinc 

 longitudinaliter debisceiis. Semiiia^ filamcntaqiic spiralia 

 columellee tenuissim^c aflixa. 



Monoclea crispata; densissime ca3spitosa^ frondibus diclio- 

 tomis pinnatifidis valde crispatis pvoliferis, capsula lineari- 

 oblonga apice bifida. (Tab. XXVII.) 



Hab. In ramis arborum, Insulae Sancti VincentiL Rev. L. 

 Guilding. 



Frondes caespitosae, parvae, virides, dichotome divisae, costataj, 

 membranacese, minutse reticulatae, pinnatifidag; lobis in- 

 signiter crispatis subrotundatis; in costam globuliferae ; 

 glohulis rotundatis, carnosisj sessilibus, demum proliferis ; 

 gemmis subcalyciformibus, angulatis, convexis, inflatis, 

 marginibus involutis, cribrosis. Calyx cylindraceus, 

 carnosus, vix duas lineas longus, apice hinc iissus. Pe- 

 dunculus magis minusve e calyce exsertus, pallide virides- 

 cens. Capsula linearis, pallide fusca, hinc longitudinaliter 

 dehiscens, apice fissa. Columella centralis, gracillima, 

 filiformis, cui semina filamentaque spiralia, e duplice 

 hellce, affixee. Semina (pro ratione plantaj) magna, 

 spliaerica, subrotundata, paululum angulata. 



If it is agreeable, in the present very advanced state of our 

 knowledge of Botany, to detect and describe a new genus 

 of plants, it is doubly so to discover, at an after period, 

 another individual of the same genus, which shall determine 

 the correctness and the validity of the former one. Such 

 IS the case in the present instance. In Mr. Lambert's 

 Herbarium, among those plants collected by the celebrated 

 John Rpvnnlrl "Prtctov r1. irinfr fliR Yovafre of Captaln Cook, 



