and on various Plants related to them. 335: 



in his excellent account o£ Bragantia tomentosa*, states to be the Bragantia 

 fVaUkhii of Mr. Brown. In default of intimate knowledge regarding this 

 plant and the original species of Loureirof, the stigma of which is described 

 as " concavum, integrum, erectum," I have attempted to distinguish this plant 

 by the absence of any tube to the perianth, the cordate sessile anthers, and 

 the discoid sinuate-lobed stigma, in which it presents some agreement with 

 Thottea. But whatever importance such a structure might be considered as 

 having with reference to Bragantia tomentosa and B. Khasiyana, the circum- 

 stance of these species having only 3 stigmata to 4 cells of the ovarium 

 argues a great tendency to variation, of which Asiphonia is bnly, perhaps, a 

 maximum instance. On the form of the anthers I am not disposed to place 

 any great reliance ; and from Mr. Bennett's remarks, regarding the presence 

 or absence of the annular corona of the faux, some tendency to variation 

 would appear to occur in the perianthia of the several species, with which its 

 state in this plant may not be incompatible. 



In case it should be determined that Asiphonia is a subordinate modification 

 of Bragantia, the character of the genus given by Mr. Bennett will require 

 some modification, particularly as regards the stigma. The species might 

 then be conveniently arranged as follows: 



Sect. I. — Frutices. Folia seriatim alternantia, spicee axillares vel terminales, stamina 6-9 ; 

 to which should be added, if true of all. Stigma discoideum, multi-lobatum. 



1. Bragantia racemosa, foliis late lanceolatis, spicis axillaribus, tubo peri- 



anthii 10-sulcato, antheris sex. 

 B. racemosa. Lour. Fl. Cochin, p. 508. 



2. B. fVallichii, foliis elongato- lanceolatis, spicis axillaribus, floribus diclini- 



bus, staminibus 9 subtriadelphis. 

 B. Wallichii, Br. in IValUclis List, no. 7415. Bennett, PI. Jav. Rar., part 1 . 

 p. 44. Trimeriza piperina, Lindl. {auct. Amott ex Bennett). 



3. B. corymhosa, foliis e basi cordata acuminatissimis, spicis in corymbum 



terminalem dispositis, perianthii tubo nuUo, antheris 8-10 obcordatis 

 glanduloso-pubescentibus. 

 Asiphonia piperiformis, Griff. 



* PI. Jav. Rarior. part 1. p. 44. f Fl. Cochin, p. 508. ed. Willd. 645. 



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