on the new Genus Doryaftthes, 213 



hexapctahu The feeds in the jigave are ranged in two feries; in the 

 Doryanthes they are difpofed as above, and the antherse as defcribed. 



Obferv. 2. The veftige* of the corolla \\\ the fruit perfuade me 

 that the corolla is to be confidered tl^ fuperay but the traces of the 

 divifions of petals, which may be remarked in the flower as far as 

 the pedunculus, might perhaps induce a fufpicion that the fruit 

 makes one body with the inferior part of the corolla, which by that 

 means itifruSlum abit. 



The loftinefs of the ftem of the only fpecies hitherto known of 

 this genus, which arifes to the height of above 20 feet, may warrant 

 the trivial name of Doryanthes excel/a, 



REFERENCES TO THE PLATES, 



Tab. XXIII. 



Fig. I. The whole flower. . . :^.. ■■. 



2. Lacinia of the corolla with a filament. 



3. Anthera extin(5toriiformis, as it appears after the fcE- 



cundation. 



Tab. XXIV. 



Fig. A . Germen and piftillum; 



B. Horizontal fe6lion of the germen. 



1. Capfula. 



2. Horizontal fe^lion of the fame. 



3. Seed- 



4. Se6lion of the fame. 



5. Nucleus. 



6. Naked feed. 



7. Sedion of the fame to fliow the perifpermum and embryo. 



XIX. Obfer^ 



