Ophiorrhiza, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 701 
' perisperm is attached, ein conform to the seed, in 
the centre a thin portion thereof forms an entire sac, or cavi- 
ty for the embryo, the rest is divided into innumerable, di- 
verging, fleshy, cuneiform lobes ; colour greenish, becoming 
white, texture fleshy. Embryo erect, straight, nearly as the 
perisperm, Cotyledons lanceolar. Radicle sub-cylindric, 
inferior, 7 
Obs. I am inclined to think that this may be Forster’s 
Gynopogon stellatum, or another species of the same genus ; 
(now Alywxia; see Brown’s Prodromus, Nov. Holl. i. 469.) 
and I conclude he had not an opportanity of making him- 
self acquainted with the carpology of the genus. Until I met 
with the fruit I considered it a Rawwolfia ; but am now sa- 
tisfied it cannot belong to that family. To what natural’ or- 
der? A poner ? 
OPHIORRHIZA. Schreb. gen. N. 273. 
Calyx five-toothed. “Corol funnel-shaped, Germ inferior, 
two-celled ; ce//s many-seeded ; attachment to a sub-inferior, 
free, clavate receptacle. Stigma bifid, Capsule two-lobed, 
two-celled. Seeds numerous, angular, 
1. O. Mungos. Willd. i. ‘826, , . 
Leaves opposite, elliptic, smooth, Corymbs Seat 
Radix Mungo. Kempf. Amoen, 573 and 577. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, entire, pointed, in tex- 
ture remarkably thin, length from four to six inches, Pe- 
tioles short, villous. Stipules, aslight connecting mem- 
brane, Corymbs terminal, many-flowered, Calyx supe- 
rior, one-leaved, five-toothed, permanent. Corol one-petal- 
Jed, funnel-shaped ; tube short ; border five-parted ; divisions 
oblong, hairy on the inside, pointed. Nectary a thick, two- 
__ lipped, fleshy body crowning the germ between the base of 
the stamens and style. Filaments five, very short, inserted 
onthe base of the tube, 4nthers linear, erect, nearly bid 
