FLORA TELLURIANA, 



CENTUllIA PRIMA. 



Synopsis pl vntarum select — This Synopsis 

 will contain nearly 2000 new or revised Genera, 

 with some new or corrected Families and spe- 

 cies of Plants, from North and South America, 

 Oceania, Asia, Africa and Europe ; which hav- 

 ing been neglected or mistaken hy the Botani- 

 cal writers, were by myself ascertained, and 

 even several published, between 1805 and 1835. 

 It forms the complement to my New Flora of 

 North America, Autikon Botanikon (of 2500 

 New or rare Gen. and Sp.) and all my Botani- 

 cal w^orks since 1805. 



Number 1. Nvctosma Raf {stccrt sineUing 

 Inj tn*iht)G. Orchid, ad. Epidmdrum distincto. 

 Sepalis 5 eq. angust. olongatis, labellum colum- 

 na adn. ineq. 3partito, 2 auriculif. 1 calcari- 

 fore basi biglar.dul. cclumna 3 appendices den- 

 tatis, anthera 4loc. 41ol)a, alata, intus clausa, 

 N. nocturna. Epid. do. L. &^ omnis auctoris, 

 Lind. Hooker bot. m 3298, fol distichis ellipt. re- 

 tusis. caule compresso unif! — flos magno citrino, 

 Antillis, an Florida? 



2. Kadakia i\..{Nomenindicum) 1815. Cal- 

 carunia R. 1830. Ponfedrrki Sp. Sepalis 6 

 sessilib. carinatis ineq. 3 ext. lane. ac. patens, 3 

 int- obov. obt. supero erecto. Stam. Gineq. subul. 

 sep. insertis, 5 fertiles adscendens antheris lin. 

 bisulc. apice dehiscens, 1 stam. major erccta ap- 

 pend icul. Ovar. 3gonum superum, stylo, filif in- 

 curvus, stigma oht. Clips, ov- acum. lloc. 3 valvis, 

 trcta basi sepalis marcoscen.^ contortiF. Semina 



