Liriogame. Cl. 2. Coronarie. Orv. 4. OnxrrHOGALEX. 41 
c Allerton, I enquired of Bruce, sending him a coloured yen 
of it; he frankly replied that he did not recollect, but if n 
in p yssinia most probably within the Tropic. Monotassa has cre- 
ay as my n 
indicates ; shite of a dull yellow tint, and strongly bearded at their 
points ; ments narrow and equal; Style long and slender. Rha- 
amantis i is so named from its slender Peduncle and Pedicels; but 
shaped, and dd a narrow fleshy Leaves appearing soon after the 
Peduncle. I am not well acquainted either with Physodia; u^ is 
however a most distinct Genus, and I formerly believed like Jaco 
i i 7 ies 
that it had some affinity to Anthe cum ; e ments of in 
Flowers, taken from the identical speci e Botanical 
gazine, were pubescent as thi: oiai o describes 
acrid Juice; Pericarpium a little stipitated, not splitting down to 
its base; Seeds erect, comprest, and smooth; this us may 
divided into two Sections, in one of which the Leaves a 
er, the Leaves are narrow, Petals exceedingly revolute and Fila- 
ments approximated into a Bundle. ypharissa has scarious Stipules 
barred with transve 
and traces of these are visible in several Drimias; the Peduncle 
eomes up with the = or soon after; and the Pericarpium is 
sessile, containing m r. J. B. Kur has joined 
two of the Species to Absent ! but he now iy in the 311th number 
of the Botanical Register, — cd ** will probably be at some period 
formed into a separate Gen 
FE 3. Terre, 
rders here combined have occasionally a twining Stem or if 
not the young Shoot is id suddenly out of the ground, vege- 
tating rapidly, and seldom w iie or et rsen Most of the ien 
are hexandrous, and if three of their Filaments are barren or sup- 
prest, they are those opposite to the terse divisions of the floral 
Envelope, as in the next Class of Sarmentacec, from which they may 
be distinguished 1st by having no joint in their Pedicels the 
sstivation, as LixxE quaintly named it, of their Petals is pecu- 
liar the sides having a disposition to ro ; of me Genera 
g and are sometimes so little closed that their other 
organs of reproduction may be seen in the middle or protruded beyond 
them: 3rdly their Embryo is situated near or close to the Hilum, 
