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PHILYDRACE:. 
In Philydrium lanuginosum, the sepals are certainly 3, as 
shewn by development, the coalescence taking place at a very 
early period, and the sinus protruding a tooth occasionally of 
some size. 
The anther is simple, and entire at first, but soon becomes 
emarginate, then bilobed, the cell is marked out along the 
margin, and from the two cells originally being on one line 
as the emargination коен. they become аз it were placed 
back to back. 
Although the vessels are 2, and tho’ unusually branched in 
the connectivum, yet the anther is certainly simple. 
The Petals are visible at the earliest times I have seen the 
anther, they are always smaller than it. 
There is nothing remarkable about the developments, of 
the Pistil, except the minority of the carpel leaf opposite the 
stamen. 
The consequence is, that its real structure is to have the 
posticous 2 sepals united into one 
To have two petals alternating with the posticous and anti- 
cous sepal, and therefore the posticous petal wanting. 
Anticous stamen developed, the 2 posticous wanting. 
Then again as in so many Monocot’s, such as Iridez, the 
carpel leaves are opposite the stamens. 
It is difficult to tell exactly whether the petals are true 
petals. They certainly are of a different series from the 
stamens. Their venation is that of petals. 
The venation of the filament is remarkable, and the only. 
instance of the kind known to me, out of Scitaminezm, the 
' branching into the connectivum appears to me unique. 
e Pistilla keep throughout their bi-stigmatic apices, an 
argument in favour of the origin of stigmata from the pla- 
centz. 
The seeds are singular, being quite cellular, the chalazal 
end is very large, of lax roundish cells. The foramen striated 
spirally, and very large. 
