326 Mr. Satispury’s Description of a new Genus 
his Classes Plantarum has long since taught us “ nulla his valet 
regula- à. priori, nec una vel altera pars fruetifieations, sed sola 
simplex symmetria omnium partium :” and the excellent canons of 
the French school may yet be improved, by a stricter attention 
to his principles on this head. : 
Among the primary characters of every Natural pido stipu- | 
lation is one of the most constant ; nevertheless, in some of the 
verticillated genera of Rubiaceae, Galium for instance, there is none 
at all. Linné.to get over this difficulty, supposed that its stipules 
were converted into leaves: that this is not the case, however, 
is evidently proved not only by Hamelia, and other verticillated 
genera with real stipules corresponding in number to their leaves, 
but by Galium itself, in several species of which the uppermost 
leaves. near the flowers are reduced to two, without any inter- 
vening stipule, as in the Apocinée. Whether their joints are - 
ever terminated by any of these glandular bristles so remarkable 
in some Apocinée, Y am yet ignorant ; but the peduncles of many 
Galiums are reflexed when in fruit, presenting asictiert posa of 
resemblance between the two orders. o — : 
The affinity of the curious genus now aciei is = fortunately 
indubitable. It belongs to the 7th section of Rubiacee ; and if 
mere number of parts is omitted in subdividing this family, as 
possibly it may be in future, it will stand next Frélichia of 
Vahl. I have not seen the ripe fruit, but when young it is 
bilocular, with a single seed in each cell: very soon after the 
flowers drop off, the seeds become long and narrow; and as the 
stipulation is so different from that of every known genus, I 
have named it after Edward Rudge, Esq. F.L.S., a botanist who 
has illustrated some of the plants of the country in which it 
grows wild, by the most accurate dissections sci ye vm to- 
the public from dried epeeinens T | 
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