432 Mr. Bentuam on the Heliamphora nutans, 
portance, as it is evident from their variableness and want of Symmetry that 
they are reductions from a normal type. 
As to the general affinities of the Order, this genus, a less complete one than 
Sarracenia itself, does not appear to furnish any further elucidations, except- 
ing in as far as it proves that neither the symmetry of the floral envelopes, nor 
the foliaceous stigma of Sarracenia, are of importance. The inflorescence, 
the only character more developed in Heliamphora, is not different from that 
of Papaveraceæ, to which order, as well as to Nymphæœaceæ, some affinities 
have been already indicated by various botanists, from both of which Orders, 
however, the placentation essentially removes the Sarraceniaceæ. 
I now proceed to give the technical character of the Heliamphora nutans, 
of which I have derived the generic name from £Aoc, a marsh, and auopevc, a 
pitcher, 
HELIAMPHORA. 
Ordo SARRACENIACEARUM. 
Char. Gen. Perigonii foliola 4, 5, (vel. 6?) hypogyna, libera, æstivatione valdè 
imbricata, subpetaloidea. Stamina numero indefinita, hypogyna. An- 
ter oblongo-lineares, versatiles, 
nalitér dehiscentibus. 
Stigma parvum, obscure trilobum, minut’ ciliatum. « Capsula trilocu- 
(Schomb.) Semina obovata, compressa, testa 
, à, in alam fusco-membranaceam semen cin- 
done parvus, teres, rectus prope basin albuminis co- 
plosi, radicula juxta hilum, cotyledonibus parvis. 
imé pilis reflexis striatis nitentibus 
basi pilis simplicibus excretoriis reflexis spar- 
a, orbiculata, concavo-cucullata, crassius- 
apus erectus, ( 1—2-pedalis,) apice simplicitér 
