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parts composing the disk ; the teeth of which as particularly 
pointed out by the single one are opposite the sepals. "This 
can only be explained by the supposition, that the interme- 
diate series is either altogether wanting or represented by 
the tooth like appendages of the scales. 
This is most likely the true nature of these bodies, it is 
at once evident that such appendages are opposite to the 
compound petals, and further there is but one developed 
opposite the smaller petal. Of the nature of the bifid scales 
attached to the back of the fertile filaments, I am at a 
loss; are they analogous to the tooth-like processes, in 
which case they would belong to the sterile filaments, 
with which however they do not separate. 
Granting the above teeth to represent the intermediate 
Series, the male organs are normally situated, and ought 
to be 15, 
The ovary is two celled, the cells are anticous and posti. 
cous. The above view is quite distinct from that entertained 
by Wight and Arnott, to which a greater degree of objection 
t exists in the fact, that their bifid petals are opposite the 
mnermost sepals, while they have no analogy either of 
Structure or situation with the three orbicular petals. 
I am not sufficiently acquainted with other genera of the 
arder, to form an opinion of the true nature of the appen- 
dages of fertile stamina. 
The views of the authors of the Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. 
Orient. were it not for the opposition of the fertile fila- 
Ments to the interior sepals, would square well with the 
alternation of the teeth of the disk, the single petal is 
anticous, 
l. Alabastrum just before expansion. 
la. Ditto, 
2,3, Flowers, 
|. & Inner view of compound petal and its scale. 
4a. Same to shew the venation. 
Ditto, simple petal, its one-celled scale and one tooth. 
