368 Dr. Surru's Account of Brunonia. 
In arenosis maritimis Nove Hollandie. 
At Pine Port, just within the tropic, on the east coast of | New 
Holland, flowering in August 1802. Mr. Brown. 
Forma omninó pracedentis, at folia numerosiora, angustiora, 
undique sericea, pilis arcte adpressis. Capitulum priori simil- 
limum, sed apices calycis interioris denudati, subexserti, colorati, 
obtusiuscult. 
'The genus under consideration is, as Mr. Brown remarks, ex- 
ceedingly interesting, on account of its apparent relationship to 
several very different natural orders, and the great difficulty of 
referring it to any one in particular. Its discoverer is inclined to 
place it between the Campanulacee and Corymbifere of Jussieu, 
though it overturns the artificial characters of both orders, having 
a superior germen. But it accords with the latter in the very 
important circumstance of the upright embryo, and precisely in 
the number, form, texture, and connexion of its stamina and an- 
there, which are altogether those ofa true syngenesious flower. 
Its stigma on the other hand bears an exact resemblance to some 
of the Campanulacee, as Goodenia, Scaevola, Velleia, &c. and is 
unlike every thing else in nature. For this reason, and for the 
sake of its germen superum, which is the case with some of these, 
as Velleia, Mr. Brown was disposed to place it at the end of this 
order, bordering upon Syngenesic. 
On considering the above remarks, assisted by dried specimens, 
Ihave presumed to suggest that Brunonia may perhaps belong 
to Dipsacee, and Mr. Brown in reply informs me that this idea 
had not entirely escaped him. I was led to it by the general 
aspect of the plants, and by a suspicion of Jussieu *, that the 
* See Adanson and Gertner on this subject. dies 
exterior 
