Ophiorrhiza. pentandria monogynia. 701 



perisperm is attached. Perisperm conform to the seed, in 

 the centre a thin portion thereof forms an entire sac, or cavi- 

 ty for the embryo, the rest is divided into innumerable, di- 

 verging - , fleshy, cuneiform lobes ; colour greenish, becoming 

 white, texture fleshy. Embryo erect, straight, nearly as the 

 perisperm. Cotyledons lanceolar. Radicle sub-cylindric, 

 inferior. 



Obs. I am inclined to think that this may be Forster's 

 Gynopoyon stellatum, or another species of the same genus; 

 (now Ahjxia; see Brown's Prodromus, Nov. Ho II. i. 4()J).) 

 and 1 conclude he had not an opportunity of making him- 

 self acquainted with the earpology of the genus. Until I met 

 with the fruit I considered it a Rauwolfia ; but am now sa- 

 tisfied it cannot belong to that family. To what natural or- 

 der % Apocyneee ? 



OPHIORRHIZA. Schreb. gen. N. 273. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Corol funnel-shaped. Germ inferior, 

 two-celled ; cells many-seeded ; attachment to a sub- inferior, 

 free, clavate receptacle. Stigma bifid. Capsule two-lobed, 

 two-celled. Seeds numerous, angular. 



1. O. Munyos. Willd, i. 826. 



Leaves opposite, elliptic, smooth. Corymbs terminal. 



Radix Muugo. Kcempf. Amoen. 573 and 577. 



Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, entire, pointed, in tex- 

 ture remarkably thin, length from four to six inches. Pe- 

 tioles short, villous. Stipules., a slight connecting mem- 

 brane. Corymbs terminal, many-flowered. Calyx supe- 

 rior, one-leaved, five-toothed, permanent. Corol one-petal- 

 led, funnel-shaped ; tube short; border five-parted ; divisions 

 oblong, hairy on the inside, pointed. Nectary a thick, two- 

 lipped, fleshy body crowning the germ between the base of 

 the stamens and style. Filaments five, very short, inserted 

 on the base of the tube. Anthers linear, erect, nearly hid 



