cxteriorls, infklct iubcrcuium feflile, fubrotundum, inxquale; 

 forfan ruLilnientum flofculi. 

 Ke"ariutn. Petala s. membranulac 2. minima, bad crafTiufcula, 

 apice tcnuiflima ; genitalia obvolventia. 



St AM. Filamenta 6. brevillinia, circa germcn inferta. yinthenr li- 

 neares, erc6tx, bafi emarginata^, apice bifid a^, bilocularcs: 

 loculis apice oblique hiantibus. 



^iST. Germen ovatum, minutum, glabrum. Sfyli duo, brcviflimi, 

 ere6li, contigui. Stigmata longa, connivcntia, demiun diver- 

 gen tia, compreflb-bijubata. 

 Per. nullum; fed valvulac coroll. pcrfiftentes iiicludunt 

 Semen unicum glabrum. 

 ^v . Charadkr effeniialh, 



Cal. Gluma bivalvis unifiora. i^i0^ 



Cor. G/uffia duplex, utraque bivalvis; exterior h^C\ excifa. 



From the above generic character it appears — that the gluma- co^ 

 rollin£€ being joined at the bafe by a kind of hinge or articulation, the 

 interior of the exterior cor oWme glumes is emarginated at the fides of the 

 bafe, or has on each fide a femilunar cavity; — that a rtidimentum fofculi 

 is commonly found at the bafe between the two interior corolline valves ; 

 butin thofefpecies where this rudiment is WTintm^^'Sifquamapetaioidea 

 is feen in its place on both fides, where the interior valve is emargi- 

 nated; — ^that the filaments are not inferted in a parallel manner on 

 two fides of the germcn, but fuxround it; the anthem^ however, 

 concealed within the comprefled glumes of the corolla, arc placed 

 three on each oppofite fide of the pif ilium \ — that the anther cc open 

 only at the top at the time of foecundaticn ; — and finally, that the 

 Styles arc invariaWy two, and the Stigmata hijubata. 



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