ttnd on various Plants related to tlum. ;W7 



Planta digitalis vel subapithaauau Azm caUukm, oellate plananqua rabaaoentaa j vaaoran 



fasciculi plures, longitudinales, subbisfriati. e fibril ductubuaque conflatL Cutii «-t m< - 

 dulla nulla. Folia decolorata, adpreaaa, e bad latiuacull linearis canaliculata, dense 

 liubneata, pra\seitim infra spicam florum. plus minus pubescentia, ipedmtnum fructi- 

 ferorum sa-pius tranaverad fracta; vena centralis unica. Fiona nibaeaailea, dew 

 cati, tribracteati ; fceminei inferioreft, maacuti luperiorea ei pauciorea, Bracten 2 late- 

 rales, oblique carinata?, subacuta>, birta- ; antica j Iongior, spathulata, birta. anin 

 bato-villosa. Sepala 8, e toro annular! obsoleto exoricntia, ima basi connata, long) 

 unguiculata, spathulata, apice cochleariformia. pracmeaui : I poatiba plus mini 

 hserentia, longiora, textura (saltern post ma— HJimlum in acido pyroligneo) COriaoal 

 exsucca. Venula centralis unica, carinuliformis. Stamina:?; duo fertilia sepal; - 

 ticis opposita et alte cohaerentia; filament* libera) brevia. subulata, axi central! oped 

 vaaculosA. Anther* magna-, ovales, extrone, conniventea, nnu basilar) affixes, bilocu- 

 lares,longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Stamen tertium, tlum adest. rudimentarium, adnaturn 

 ungui sepali tertii antici. Pollen 4-G-bedrum, angulis poro vel Bulco perforata. Ru- 

 dimentum pistilli centrale, capite glanduloso-globoso. Florcs foeminei eodem more 

 bracteati. Perianthium deciduum, forma et divisione varinm, mode, brevissimum, tubu- 

 losum, 3-dentatum, modo longius ad medium usque 3-partitum, rtrb perianthium 

 masculum asmulans exsertum. Stamina rudimentaria (perianthiorum majorum) 2, 

 dentiformia, minuta. Ovarium globosum, parce puberulum, basi attemmta insuper 

 torum cupuliformem subdiaphanum laxe celluloso-areolatum insertum, et reeonditum, 

 ut videtur solidum et omnino cellulosum. Stylus filiformis, deeiduus, obsolete 3-sul- 

 catus, basin versus subtrigonus, epigyno more angustatus discoque obsoleto amp!- 

 atus. Stigma capitatum, subtrilobum, aspectu sub lente granulosum. Fructus dense 

 spicatus, sphaericus, parce puberulus, toro immutato insidens, bracteis e maxima parte 

 . fractura lapsis quasi subexsertus, in speciminibus meis subcrustaceus, apice cicatrice 

 areoliformi inconspicue notatus. Tela centralis, (embryo?) lutescens, c cellulis irrcgu- 

 laribus, angulatis, nucleosis, iutegra vix segreganda. Inter banc telam et epicarpium 

 tela cellulosa, spongiosa adest. Torus cupuliformis bractcarumque bases post fructus 

 persistunt. 



Obs. I. — For specimens of this very remarkable plant I am indebted to 

 Mr. Harvey, the founder of the genus, which appeared in the 'Annals of 

 Natural History' (he. cit.), with a note by Sir W. J. Hooker, describing- it to 

 be a genus of the natural order Rhizanthece of Biume, group Batanophorete. 



Obs. II. — The central tissue of the fruit, although it is marked off by its 

 yellow tint, has not appeared to me to be separable as one body, breaking up 

 rather on the slight pressure occasioned by attempts at dissection. In this 



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