8 Mr. Sautsspury on the Perigynous Insertion 
remains for me this evening to go through the Perigynous Genera 
of Jussieu, pointing out what I conceive to be their real inser- 
tion: but as English Botanists may be too justly reproached with 
neglecting the study of his Orders, on some future occasion I 
hope to lay before you the result of my meditations on the Mo- 
nocotyledones, to which I devoted the evenings of last winter: 
the Dicotyledones being far more numerous, and containing be- 
tween two and three hundred genera, that I have never yet even 
looked at, will take me a much longer time. 
The Palms are the first Perigynous Order: of these I have exa- 
` mined three genera living, and from the different dried specimens 
in Sir Joseph Bankss Herbarium, and the excellent drawings in 
the Coromandel Plants, I have no doubt that the Stamina of the 
whole Order are inserted in a distinct hypogynous receptacle. 
Jussieu indeed hesitates and says after ** imis laciniis calycinis, (an 
potius glanduloso corpori hypogyno?") From their affinity with 
Grasses, especially Juncus, one would at first conclude their Invo- 
lucrum to be a Calyx; but their Spathz and Bractez are the 
_parts analogous to the Glume of Grasses, and some genera have 
evidently a true monopetalous Corolla. The Palms come nearer to 
the Aroidee than Asparagi in a Natural Series, and may now be 
placed next to them: no one who compares the figures of Borassus 
and Cocos in the Coromandel Plants, with Aponogeton and Pothos, 
will doubt about this; and the germination of the last genus, 
. which I have repeatedly raised from seeds, still further confirms 
it. Asparagi, the second Perigynous Order, have their stamina 
likewise inserted either in the Corolla, or a distinct hypogynous 
receptacle: the fragrant Lily of theValley and Alstroemeria, which 
certainly belongs to this Order, are examples I would offer for 
your examination. Junci, the third Perigynous Order, will in all 
probability be greatly altered in the next edition of Jussieu's 
Genera. 
