belonging to the Natural Family of tbe Aurantia. 228 
varies very often, in number of loculaments and of feeds, from the ripe 
fruit.—The comparifon of thefe two ftates, of the fame object, re- 
quires an attention, from thofe who feek the ways of nature, far 
greater than has been hitherto beftowed on it. 
Thefe reafons, I hope, will be a fufficient excufe in n the eyes of 
every candid Botanift, for my attempting to defcribe*the fructifica- 
tion of the plants which are the fubjeét of this paper, in twelve, 
inftead of fix divifions, in the following manner : . 
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I. The fower, in the four ufoal Linnzan divifions of calyx, coroll, 
flamina, and pifill; marking, however, the infertion of the 
ftamina, and the nature of what Linné, in analogous plants, 
has called Declan ium. 
E "The ed in four ihan ions, ; viz. the: pa: ts of the Rewer Which. 
perfit and accompany the fruit, and which I defign by the 
name of induvia, the pericarp, the placentation of the feeds, 
and the deb; ifcentia. i i 
3 The i; in four act viz. its ien its integument, b 
= ig be and the embryo. 
The two genera which we are now to confider are deficient in 
fome of thefe parts; but it is equally interefting to the Botanift to 
know the abfence of fuch parts, as to be acquainted with their 
form when prefent. What new terms Tam ne to employ 
— fhall be TH in the notes, i 
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