GARDNER ON LYGODISODEA, &c. . > 25 
It is quite obvious, that what Bartling considers to be the 
pericarp, is nothing more than the calyx which at length separ- 
ates from the carpels, the shining appearance of which is owing 
to the falling off of the epidermis, and that his two pendulous 
seeds are the two carpels. This, together with the inferior 
radicle, not (superior as stated by Bartling,) and the distinct - 
existence of albumen, completely annihilates Bartling's Order, 
and proves the correctness of the situation in which the 
genus has been placed by De Candolle. 
(The species of Lygodisodea above alluded to, is, it must be confessed, 
very nearly allied to the original Z. fetida of Ruiz and Pavon, a native 
of woods in Peru, But when we come to consider the widely separated 
locality of the two plants, and the different form of their leaves, it will be 
safer perhaps to look upon them as distinct, and we may call Mr Gardner's 
species— 
L. Brasiliensis ; foliis cordato-ovatis acutis supra glabris subtus in 
axillis hirsutis, dentibus calycinis valde inzequalibus.—( Tas. II.) 
Han. Among bushes at Serra de Araripe ; only two specimens could be 
found, Mr Gardner, (n. 1698.) It is to be regretted that Mr Gardner 
did not find any flowering specimens, although from the very immature state 
of some of the fruit, it would appear that the corolla had only recently fallen. 
A striking difference is observable between this very young and the mature 
fruit, the former having a softish wrinkled dark-green covering, crowned 
with the very unequal teeth of the calyx, of which two or three are very 
long, the other two or three extremely short, while the ripened fruit is smooth 
and glossy, chestnut-brown, and only terminated by very short, though yet 
unequal teeth, a difference that cannot be accounted for except by what Mr 
Gardner mentions above, “ the falling off of an epidermis.” The ripened 
fruit is then surrounded by the calyx which has parted with its epidermis, 
and this calyx is marked by five lines or strize, five corresponding with and 
five alternating with the teeth of the limb. The tube itself, glossy and 
membranaceous, splits irregularly from the base, falls off, and leaves two 
flat, black, broad, oval carpels, placed face to face, each surrounded by a 
broad membranaceous wing, and attached to the bottom of the calyx by an 
erect cord or slender stalk, from the top of which it is pendent; each carpel 
has besides another cord springing from the base of tbe carpel, and fixing 
it to the base of the calyx. Upon the surface of the carpels are several 
very minute white scales or short thickened hairs, Within is a very thin, 
soft, and fleshy albumen, in which lies the large pure white embryo, of 
-which the cotyledons are wit thin, 3-nerved, broadly cordate. Radicle 
inferior. - E 
Tas. II. fig. 1, young fruit with its epidermis. Fig. 2, ripe fruit, the — 
Vok H.— No. 9. E 
