Liriogame. Cl.3. Tetra. Orv. 2. HyroxipE x. 45 
Pedicelli infimi fere semper oppositi inde 2-chotomi vel alterni. 
Bractew 1-rie Eoo tun lineari-attenuate. Species 11. 
osa Tuvxs. O olifera Jacq. Obtusa Burca. Pra- 
tensis, Hygrometrica, Merian Glabella [3 Br. Erecta, Decum- 
bens L. Juncea 
The Seeds of all y ecd yet diseovered have a black shining 
brittle Coat, for which Mr. R. Brown in his Prodromus annexed 
them to Asphodelec. This charaeter alone however is of little 
ordinal value, differing exceedingly in many Genera very nearly allied, 
Bryonia and. Cucumis, Ricinus and Jatropha, Euryspermum and 
Leneadendron, Myrtus and Eugenia, Epilobium and Fuchsia, Eurya 
and Thea, Hymenocallis and Paneratium, Canna and Maranta, are 
familiar instances. The Funiculus of their Seeds either arillated or 
indurated as in some Lachenalec affords amore decisive —s 
mined me to separate them as an Order; whic r. R. Brown now 
p.27 
however is not only incomplete, their organs of vegetation being 
entirely left ire but erroneous in two material points; for the Fila- 
ts are Ways * imis laciniis inserta," nor is the ovarium 
constantly **3-locular," as there stated. Hypoxidee appear to me 
1 x : 
remarks “ Gethyllidi peraffine Genus ;” nevertheless in the Botanic 
Register of Feb. 1819, after copying Mr. R. WwN's aeter 
observations respecting Curculigo, he sre i that Botanist’s contrary 
opinion, and there joins two Species, whi w wild at the Cape 
of Good Hope. The material difference hhowerel in the bulbous root 
en 
to 
emis is corroborated by a Flower of Curculigo Plicata 8 now 
in Mr. GrirFin’s infit imi in which two of its ts 
Pericarpium, lanthe has an annual Bulb, dilated at the base into a 
jagged margin like that of Hesperanthus; its Leaves are attenuated, 
in one cum striped with white down the middle; Pericarpium 1- 
loeular from the earliest period; internal surface of Petals yellow 
without a large spot at their base; Filaments inserted on the recep- 
