and an various Plants related to them. \\ \ \ 



and Reichenbach refer it to Cytineee* ; Ltndley to Cytomoriacea \ \ Endttcher 

 to BalanopIiore(v\. To all these, insurmountable objections appear to me to 

 be presented. Even if the structure of the male flowers be as described by 

 M. Endlicber, the females arc widely different from those of Bakmopkoreee (to 

 which botanists seem perhaps most disposed to refer the genus), particularly 

 by their general structure, their much greater general perfection! the union of 

 the ovaria, and the obvious stigmatic surfaces. Perhaps on the whole the 

 general tendency of the plant is towards UrHcime. 



§ 7- Thismia. 



This mi a. Grtffl 



Locus Naturalis, subregnum Monocotyledons inter Tacceas et Bmraumniaeeai, 

 Char. Gen. Perianthium superum, campanulatum. cadueuin.) 6-partitum, lariniis .? exteri- 

 oribus (brevibus),oblongis; S alterau, interioribua, longiaaunis, subulatis: faux mnulo 

 semiclausa. Stamina fi, fauci inserta, perianthii laciniis opposita, deflect inauper pari- 



etem tubi internum; filamenta brevia, discreta; antherce (maximac) tecua DUU 

 connatae, membrana. bilamellosa terminata*, biloculares, loculis parvis distantibns td- 

 natis. Ovarium inferum, 1-loculare; placentae 3 parietales, supra medium ovuligera;; 

 ovula indefinita, anatropa. Stylus brevis. Stigmata 3, bifida. Fmclns carnosus, trun- 

 cato-turbinatus, apice pericarpii circumscisso dehiscens, 1-locularis. Semina indefinita, 

 placentis 3 parietalibus, demum liberis affixa. Embryo indivisus, homogeneus. 

 Planta pusilla, radicum parasitica, aspectu cereaceo. Perianthium luteum, coccineo pictum, 



Thismia Brunoniana. 



Descr. Planta aphylla, radicum parasitica, spithamaea vel digitalis. Caulis simpliciusculus. 

 dimidia sua longitudine humo obtectus, crassitie penna- anserinae, angulatus. Squama? 

 (loco foliorum) alternantes, adpressae, lanccolatae, acutae. Bractea; squamis similes, vd 

 solitaria? sub floribus, vel imbricate in pedicellis, interdum flori unico terna-. Flores 

 pauci, in racemum brevem terminalem dispositi, sa?pius breviter pedicellati, pro ratione 

 plantae magni, pulchre colorati, inodori. Perianthium superum, campanulatum, extufl 

 verrucis plurimis, parum elevatis, sine ordine evidente dispositis, ovato-oblongis, snb- 

 lobatis insignitum; tubus basin versus ovario adnatus, anthesi peracta paullo supra 

 apicem ovarii citissime circumscissus ; faux annularis, circumferentia exteriore obsoi 



* Ord. Plantar. 81. Cor.spectus Regn. Veg. 78. t Intr. Nat. Syst. 394. 



{ Melet. Botan. i. 11. Gen. PI. 73. 



