dI Dues At 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ERIOCAULON. 443 
presertim dorsum versus pilis simplicibus albo-flavescen- 
tibus ornata et ciliata; interiora in tubum obconicum, 
apice trifidum connata. Stamina 3. Anthere exserte, 
oblonge. Planta foeminea ignota. 
This species belongs to Kunth’s first section of his genus 
Pepalanthus * Capitula villosa,’ and is nearly allied to P. 
Bahiensis, ciliatus, and brachypus. I have only access at 
present to three specimens, and in all of these I find the 
flowers to be staminiferous, from which I am induced to 
believe that the plant is dicecious. Fig. 4, the artist, con- 
sidered to be the female flower, but it is certainly nothing 
more than an older state of fig. 3. It is only in the stami- 
niferous flower of its allies that the inner sepals are connate. 
The female flowers, therefore, still remain unknown; but most 
` probably they do not differ much from those of P. Bahiensis. 
Several other remarkable species of the Pepalanthus group 
from my Diamond district collections have been delineated and 
KA Ge in an early part of Sir W. Hooker's Jcones Plan- 
pon XIII. Fig. 1. Plants, nat. size. f. 2. A head of 
flowers, magn. f.3. A male flower, showing the bract, the 
three external ciliated sepals, the internal connate do., and 
the anthers, magn. f. 4. An older state of the same, with 
the abortive style and stigmata seen through the transparent 
connate sepals, magn. f. 5 and 6, Leaves, magn. 
Kew, July 4th., 1842. 
On Oaxrzsia, a new Genus of the Order EwPETREXE; by 
Edward Tuckerman, Esq., of Boston, U.S.A. 
The plant, of which I shall here attempt to give some 
account, is admirably described by Dr. Klotzsch, in the April 
number of Wiegmann’s Archives. The name, however, there 
so obligingly given it being anticipated,* and several additional 
* Nutt. in Trans, Amer, Phil. Soc. (n, ser.) 7., Torr. and Gray, Fl. N. 
Amer. 2, 355. 
