Cl. 1. Spadicifere. Liriogame. Orn, 6. Panpanex. 9 
dien egeris the solid mass of Pericarpium through which ex 
Chorda Pistillaris passes before it reaches the Cell. When 
ied: this to Dryanver, he immediately went to od collection ‘of 
Fruits, and brought down a Strobilus labelled Zamia Caffra, but 
structure in the Fruits of that Genus; in fact, it was almost i impos- 
sible to converse with him on any branch of Botany, without gaining 
knowledge. A species of Pandanus at Sierra Leone is called the 
Self burning Tree, from the facility with which it catches fire, and 
this property confirms the affinity of the Order to Spadiciferee ; for 
and so named from its locality, by Sir Josera Baxxs, with the habit 
of Fonai, but differs in having succulent „Fruits and m many small 
striated Seeds in each cell; it t approaches 
to Dracontec, and it is miro o be lamented that Mr. FERDINAND 
Baver has not yet been enabled to pub eur um the figures which he 
made of this interesting mei in Norfolk Islan 
. connus, 
od. 8. Pra 
Titragyne. Orontium Japonicum degens 
Platymetra. Norona. Tupistia Rev. in Bot. Mag. No. 1655. 
Porpax. E. 
A small Order, disiiagaishod by its perennial Rootst ock, which is 
in fact a subterraneous Stem; Leaves sessile or petiolated, dice 
while young, Flowers spiked or solitary; one or more Bractes to 
each ; Corolla monopetalous in the usual sense of that term, its 
divisions valved or imbricated before they expand; Stamina inserted 
in the Corolla; and a 3-4-locular Pericarpium, containing one or 
two erect Seeds inserted at the bottom of each Cell. Titragyne is 
so named from z perforated Stigma: this Plant is still confounded 
in the v ut our metropolis with Orontiwm, but differs 
essentially in Sica 3-locular Berries, and Anthers on wedge-shaped 
Filaments dilated mer xni at their bottom into a lobe between 
each; its Fruits, which used formerly to ripen in Sir Josep Banxs’ 
smaller Cranberry bed at Spring Grove, round the Chama Gigas, 
thro ch the water runs, are of an orange colour, and 
ected by Nono t 
every way preferable to the barbarous one of T'upistia: it has a 
thick spike of pie like pisi adit the lower ones often 8-androus 
as in that, but its Anthers are sessile near the middle of the Corolla, 
and have a eos Rachis with oblique Cells; there is no foundation 
for Mr. R. Brown’s suspicion that it is a dioicous Genus, the Seeds 
which are 2 in each cell, having ripened in er Lady pg Crrr- 
ForD’s stove at Paddington. The country where Porpax grows wild, 
