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be compelled by logic to adopt. The petals of Turnera and Piriqueta 

 are without appendices, but those of ErhlicJda are furnished at theii- 

 base with filamentous processes, analogous to the corona of the true 

 Passion-flowers, The stigmas of Piriqueta and Turnera are more or 

 less flabellate \ those of Erhlichia^ although having a tendency to be- 

 come so, are capitate, and merely fimbriated on the margin; while it 

 must be borne in mind that the stigmas of several PamfioracecB have a 

 tendency to become divided, and occasionally bilobed, 



Turneracem then are intimately connected with PamfloreWy especially 

 with the tribe Paro^Hiece. The connecting link between them appears 

 to be Erblickia^ one of those peculiar genera, the discovery of which 

 will always produce great changes. As no other points of difference, 

 besides those already disposed of, seem to exist between the two Orders, 

 I have no hesitation in uniting Turneracea and Passijlorem into one 

 Natural Family, adopting the name Pamfioracem for both. 



It is evident that the discovery of ErblicJiia^ and the consequent 

 union of Turneracecs and Pass'^orece, throw a new light upon several 

 disputable points regarding the floral envelope of the latter, and 

 strengthen the views of Lindley, who regards the outer floral enve- 

 lopes as calyx, the inner as corolla, and the corona as a peculiar kind 

 of petals. 



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Plants of BraziL 



We have been requested to insert the subjoined prospectus, issued 

 on the part of Mr. J. Reinhardt, Curator of the Zoological Department 

 of the Royal Museum of Natural History at Copenhagen, and advan- 

 tageously known as one of the Naturalists on board the Danish Corvette 

 " Galathea," on her late voyage of circumnavigation, and by several 

 interesting memoirs, of which he is the author. 



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 wishes to us, or to Dr, Wallich, 5, Upper Gower Street, London. 



Prospectus. 

 The coast provinces of Brazil have been visited by many botanists, 



