68 Orp. 6. DraxgnnEx, Cl. 4. Sarmentacew. Liriogame. 
in Lamwerrr’s Herbarium have enabled me to ascertain that it has 
jointed Pedicels and a different Embryo, so that it connects very 
naturally the aging lk Order of —M conte: differs widely 
from Luzuriaga of Ruiz and Pavow, in many points: and as they 
deseribe the latter itis n « Petalis albidis punctis ribet, exterioribus 
angustioribus, Baccá rubrá, seminibus fu vis," it possibly belongs to 
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remain undetermined at present, no cimens having reached 
Europe. Of Eustrephus one Species 0 mon here, the Style 
of which is not “ filiformis," but swelled towards the top. Jsandra 
and Chlamysporum have the complement of six Stamina, 
but in the former the Anthers are equal, in the latter unequal i 
length. Thysanotus of Mr. R. contains at least 3 genera, 
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states; and their fringed inner Petals, as well as arillated Seeds, 
are common to several others of the Order: here he complains that 
I did not a ame “in Herbario Banksiano receptum, et D. 
Salisburio bene cognitum cum Chlamysporum suum in publica luce 
emisit." To say nothing of his bad Latin, this assertion as far as 
concerns me is totally false; but I should certain nly have opposed 
his selfish — to taboo that New Holland Genus, even if I had 
; for it flowered in my own garden at Mill Hill, 
though he GiMiristes to the contrary, from Mr. Hooxrm's having 
faithfully delineated = fugacious blossoms as he saw them, not fully 
expanded; and as he criticizes the dissections in Paradisus Londi- 
nensis, they are here dod from Specimens cinta it produced 
specimens it remains marcescens ut as none of the Capsules are 
ripe or even anid, their floral mp probably may at last fall 
off; Johnsonia like Thysanella has only three Stamina, without an 
rudiments of more. Sowerbcea and pene are unquestionably 
nearly allied; but I do not see any “ facies Polycarpec " in the latter, 
and so far from being ** affinis Aphwllanthi," 1 seas that Genus in 
another Order confined to the Northern Hemisphere, Siig am on 
account of its large tender petaloid floral Envelope, soo: n de 
racter is only negatively bad, peers "that of my illiberal critic is 
positively erroneous; for he describes its “ Perianthium cquale," of 
which the 3 inner divisions are nearly twice longer; ** Stamina imo 
