of the 'Natural Order of Myrfr. 257 



The order in which I have now enumerated them accords, as 

 nearly as can be, with their natural affinity to each other ; but 

 they belong to various daffies in the artificial iyftem of Linn^us, 

 according to which I iliall now give their generic characters . 



i. IMBRICARIA. 



Jungia. G<zrtn. Sem. v. I. 175. /. 35./. 5. 



Pentandria Monogynta^ next to EfcallonJa. 



Char. Gen. Petala 5. Stigma capitatum. Capfula calyce tecta, 

 bilocularis, polyfperma. 



Gartner fufpected this might not be a diftindt genus from the 

 Efcailonia of Linn. SuppL which he had never feen. But it differs 

 efTentially in having a capfule inftead of a berry, not to mention 

 many other particulars. See Plant. Ic. ex Herbaria Linna?ano 9 tab* 30 



In the unripe germen Gartner found 2 cells, but of thefe one is 

 often abortive. This is an infrance, among many others, of the 

 propriety of confidering the fruit in an early ftate, when we form 

 generic characters, as the natural number of the parts is often mod: 

 certainly to be learned in that ftate. By this rule, the Linociera of 

 Schreber will, if I miftake not, be found not diftinct from Chionanthm. 



Gaertner mentions two fpecies of his Jungia, of which I have 

 received one from New South Wales — that reprefented in his plate. 

 In my fpecimens, the upper leaves, calyx, and petals, are crenate, 

 which he has not exprefTed, but which is an additional mark of its 

 affinity to Efcatfonia, the leaves of which are more or lefs ferrated ; 



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