Ditvio zibet hinus of Li mice us. 
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Arilli horizon tali ter aut oblique incumbentes loculamento 
conformes, irrcgulares: rnedii majores, supremus infiin us- 
que attenuati; omnes sublobati, crassi, earnoso-mucosi, 
tenerrimi, albi, ad niutuuni contaetuni oblique truncati, 
latere interno cum centre fructus pistillari arctissime con- 
nati, ceterum liberi, meinbrana tcnuissima pellucida scpa- 
ratim obdueti. 
Testa ex duabus paginis conferruminatis eonllata: pagjna 
exteriore solida, duriore ; interiore suberosa, subccllulosa: 
cellulis fluidum fuseum cocreentibus. 
Perisperma nullum. 
Embryo dicotyledoneus, testae cavitatein cxplens, rectus. 
Cotyledones amygdalino-carnosa?, ovato-oblongaj, parte supe- 
riore conferruminataj, inferiore libera?, jncisae. 
Hadicula intra extremitates cotyledonum liberas latens, in- 
verse subpyramidalis, obsolete tetragona. 
Obs. 1. Though this description does not in every point ex- 
actly answer the characteristic of the order of the Malvacece, as it 
now stands; yet it cannot be denied that many characters, which 1 
have pointed out, such as the double calyx, the connected stamens, 
the conglomerated anthers (which we observe exactly similar in 
several other Malvaceous plants, for instance, in Bomba.v pentan- 
driim), nay even the fruit itself, so anomalous at first sight, strongly 
indicate at least the neighbourhood in which the Durion is to be 
placed in natural arrangement. The place assigned to it by Jus- 
sieu is warranted by the idea which this naturalist entertained of 
thegermen being stipitate, and by the scales on the under surface 
of its leaves, which very much resemble those that cover the sur- 
face of the leaves of several ( 'eppdrtdts ; but the first character, as 1 
have shown, is erroneous, and the other is of less importance, and 
only indicative of the affinity subsisting between both families. 
Obs. 2. 
