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2-valved, and provided with two spherical pellucid white gib- 
- bosities at the base, a naked style, and one-celled ovary com- 
. posed of a single capillary leaf. But some species of Verticor- 
. dia have the stamens free, while V. chrysantha, Endl., (which 
_ 80 far as regards the anthers and style agrees with Chrysor- 
rhée), has the stamens slightly united at the base. Besides, 
in C. nitens, the type of the genus, the two gibbosities 
_ of the anther seem to be only the prominent bases of the 
 anther-cells : and in C. serrata, the whole anther forms one 
little globe no way different from what is observed in Verti- 
cordia grandiflora, and some other species. Although, how- 
ever, the above characters, as well as the smoothness of the 
style, are certainly insufficient to distinguish Chrysorrhóe 
as a genus, the other characters derived from the ovary may 
perhaps prove more certain, and therefore I retain the 
species as placed by Dr Lindley. 
— Tas. XIII. Fig. 1. Branch; f. 2. Leaves, front and back 
view ; f. 3. Flower-bud ; f. 4. Expanded flower; f. 5. Fertile 
stamens, front and back view, the alternate ones shorter than 
the others; f. 6. Sterile filaments :—magnijied. 
2. Verticordia grandiflora; foliis carnosis lineari-triquetris 
mucronatis summis distiche imbricatis, pedicellis flore 2—3- 
connectivo bicorni deflexo, stylo perbrevi glaberrimo. — 
V. grandiflora, Endl. Nov. Stirp. decad. p. 69.—V. helian- — 
tha, Lindl. in Swan River, Bot. p. yhp 9. ig Ba 
- We know our plant to be the same as that of Dr Lindley, 
and there cannot exist a doubt, we believe, of its being also. 
that of Endlicher, although our character is slightly at —— 
variance with both descriptions. For want of amore appro- — 
Priateterm wehavecalled the bracteoles persistent; but strictly — 
