10 ORD. 8. PrarYwETREX. Cl. 1. Spadicifere. Liriogame. 
though not pet exactly n i is probably China; it was intro- 
duced by the late Tmowas Evans Esq. of Stepney, ‘who sent the 
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Paradisus Londinensis, not long before he gave up that work to be 
more PNE Mem deg Y the Horticultural Society of London. 
The Leaves are ra r 3 in each Head, and forming in time a 
large close Tuft, each lanceolate with a finely crenulated mar- 
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oung Leaves in our Stoves about May; and their Peduncle hardly 
rising above the surface of the earth, they look somewhat like those 
of Asarum; Corolla divided half way down into 8 equal — 
wedge-shaped segments, eine — they M ; its Nerves 
16, but those under the in es dividing into 2 branches ecd 
they reach the top, each raisa en ecomes S nerved as in Portlandia 
among Dicotyledones; Anthers ind but with perpendicular paral- 
lel Cells and a narrower Rachis than p laira ; Pistillum very 
ss, apparently consisting of a Style gradually dilated into a 
large convex Stigma resembling a Button, — which is so] 
as to lise the orifice ‘of the Corolla and I believe pollinisugens at 
the margin; the base of the apparent Style nevertheless is a Peri- 
prone with 4 cells and as many Seeds, which I have not yet seen 
; but in a decayed Flower it had already swelled to twice the 
raia of the Style immediately above it. 
= Ord. 9. Taccex, 
Tacca. J. L. Foxr 
Here I insulate a Goins, which by its Radication, Pericarpium 
nearly quite inferum and monopetalous Corolla, in my opinion con- 
the preceding Orders of this Class with Diosco ridec, differi 
quite sufficiently in the — Appendages behind its Anthers, 
to claim the rank of one itself. Some affinity in it to ~— 
has been suggested by Ur. R. Brown, but the Stamin i 
talous in a single series, and the Stigma = closely to that 
of Porpax. Dryanper always said that Tac acco of its 
Foliage would prove 1-cotyledonous, before Daw ribs uh us 
aequainted with the germination of its Seeds; and one species has 
simple Leaves like those of some Caladec to which Apaxsox joined 
it in his 
Ord. 10. DrosconrpEx. Dmxawp. R. Br. 
Pericarpium inferum, 3-loculare, membranaceum et 3-valve, 
Anthere introrsum dehiscentes, nune tantum 
3. Rhe ^» gfe 3 ya minus coaliti. Stigmata ies vel 2-furca, 
Semina in singulis loculis, fulva badiave, m septorum sessili: 
dus j jim coma compressa vel venei nunc alata; Albu- 
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