458 SPECIES OF. CHRYSOSPLENIUM. 
The two may be thus distinguished. 
1. Chrysosplenium macranthum; glabrum, caule basi repente, 
foliis oppositis cordato-ovatis obtusis grosse crenatis in petio- 
lum attenuatis,cymis terminalibus pedunculatis bracteatis, 
floribus di-trigynis. (Tas. XVI.) 
Has. Eagle Bay, Port Famine. Capt. King, R.N. (n. 130.) 
Glabrum. Caulis pedalis inferne repens, ad nodos 
radicans, superne parce ramosus. Folia opposita, paten- 
tia, cordato-ovata, obtusa, grosse crenata, tenui-subcartila- 
gineo-marginata, reticulatim venosa, in petiolum vix folii 
longitudine attenuata. Pedunculi terminales, bini, in axilla 
ramorum duorum superiorum, cum flore intermedio sub- 
sessili. Flores cymosi. Cyme triflore, flore intermedio 
sessili, unibracteato, floribus lateralibus sessilibus, bibrac- 
teatis. Flores omnes pro hoc genere magni, ut videtur, flavi. 
Calycis ubus turbinatus, venosus, minute pubescens ; limbus 
4-fidus, lobis patentibus rotundatis. Corolla nulla. Stamina 
decem, erecta, glandulis subrotundatis, patentibus, ad basin 
stylorum alternantia. Filamenta subulata, stylis breviora. 
Anthere rotundate, didyme. Styli 2-3, magni, ovati, inflati, 
stigmatibus parvis recurvatis terminati. Fructus capsula- 
ris, ee pr tnicornis ; ; nempe stylis 2 vel 3 incrassatis 
e cinctus, stylis intus longitu- 
duh dehiscentibus. Dës plurima, ovata, fusco-nigra, 
nitida, pedicellata, placentis parietalibus ramosis inserta. 
Albumen copiosum, carnosum. Embryo immersus, basin 
versus albuminis, Radicula infera, ad hilum seminis versa. 
Cotyledones breves, obtuse. 
The present is much larger than any of the known species 
of the northern hemisphere, but not so large as some states 
of the following one. 
Tas XVI. Fig. 1, flower, nat. size; f. 2, the same (with 3 
styles), magnified ; f. 3 fruit (with 2 styles), bursting open in 
the inside of the styles; f. 4, cell of the fruit laid open, 
showing the seeds on parietal placenta ; f. 5, seed; f. 6, seed 
laid open, showing the albumen and embryo; f. 7, embryo ;— 
