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margine uniform. Glandule majuscule brunnez apice trun- 
cate, lateribus obsolete 3-gonis, caudicula longa. medio torta, 
parte torsionem supra fuscescento ; infra, subhyalina. 
Styli nulli, stigma muticum capita papilloso, cellulose 
albo, conum obtusum formante, superficie basis obconicze cu- 
ticula orbata ideoque stigmatosa. 
Ovar. ordinis, Ovula pluriseriata ordinis. 
Vix dubito quin species sit sectiones supra citate ; nullo- 
modo Gymnema. Polliniaenim Gymnematis (salle in G. Syl- 
vestra) apice pellucido coarctato gaudent. 
Differt ab omnibus aliis mihi cognitis fissura fecundationis 
deorsum continuata, quasi completa vel aliis verbis, filamentæ 
Sursum discreta (partibus fissurze respondentibus) inferne in- 
terne tantum cohzrentia. 
Pollinia, ut alia in omnia, in aquam immersa inventuntur, 
€t quoad glandulam pendula fiunt. Ab hoc anjudicare licet, 
positione pendula tantem naturalea esse. 
um Gymnema occordat laciniis corolle intus carnosis. 
An affinis G. Finlaysonio, Sect. 3 Wight Contr. p. 46. 
l. Alabastrum just before expansion. 
2. Flower : at a rather late period: I have not seen any in 
perfect expausion. 
3. Staminal column of bud. 
4. Ditto, two anthers removed to expose the situation of 
the pollinia. 
5. Pollinia in situ (opaque and vertical view.) 
6. Ditto ditto lateral. 
7. Pollinia viewed in water. 
8. Pollen mass and its caudicule. 
9. Long section of staminal column and pistillum, base of 
stigma certainly has a stigmatic surface. 
10. Ovulum, 
1l. Staminal column of bud, corolla equal to the calyx. 
: =o fone of a gland and its caudicule. 115. Pollen mass. 
ditto corolla, twice the length of € 
