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.. ment depending upon causes, which are obvious in some 
~ other plants. 
In the pistillum there is nothing singular; the opposition 
of the placentz to the stigmata can be as satisfactorily ac- 
counted for, as the loculicidal dehiscence of certain fruit. 
The production of the septum is curious, in as much as it 
points out the extreme tendency in all the most perfect fami- 
lies, to have bilocular fruit. 
The natural divisions of Crucifere will probably be point- 
ed out by the sensible properties, as much as by any thing 
else 
BEGONIACEJE. 
Begonia. 
. Begonie sp. Pl. DCXII. 
Pedicel. peduncul. sepala hispida, ramentis reflexis vel pa- 
tentissimis sanguineis, folia viridia. 
HOMALIACEJE. 
HonMaALINEA. 
— Novum genus, Pl. DCXIII. Fig. I. 
— Perianth. duplici serie 4- partitum, laciniis fimbHstin exter- 
nis minoribus, glandulz 4, sepalis externis oppositis. Stam. 
4 (internis opposit.) Styli 4. Orvar. nondum extum. 
Arbor magna primo intuiti Henslovia pubescens referens, 
= l. alterna stipulata, et partes novelle pubescentia, stipule, 
idus, Panicule compositze racemiformes, axillares pen- 
> æstiv. imbricat. Flores minuti viridescenti. ingrati * 
odori, pedicellis medio-incrassatis et articulatis. 
Homalinee, Pl. DCXIII. Fig. II. 
*dicelli clavati, infra fructum in annulum dilatati. 
s inferus, calyce omnino adnat. subturbinatus car- 
Man, levis. . * 
