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Capsula basi calyce persistente cincta, monosperma, ab apice 
fere ad basin in valvas tres dehiscens; valvae stylorum 
cicatricibus alternantes, demum ‘saepius recurvae, a medio 
si ad apicem in duo segmenta longitudinaliter 
findentes. Semen albuminosum, pendulum, trigonum, a latere 
visum anguste oblongum, laeve, nitidulum, micropyla basi foveae 
circularis supra medium seminis sita; albumen corneum, 
copiosum; embryo jongitudine 11 seminis metiens, radicula a 
micropyla descendente cum cotyledonibus angulum magnum 
efficiente. 
The valves of the capsule bear half a style-scar at each side 
of their apex. They apparently open elastically, probably 
no resemblane to the pitted seeds of the Euparopsieae, and it is 
seed, with its basin-shaped depression above the micropyle, bears 
shooting out the seed in the process. The large smooth trigonous 
evident that the relationship with this group has been 
exaggerated. Soyaueia was known to differ from the 
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that were afforded for officers to go on shore and_ the 
extreme poverty of the soil in the places visited. Parry’s winter - 
cases no collector’s name is given. A portion of them were 
deposited in Hooker’s A chasamn and eg ees at Kew, ee 
without exact indication of the station where they were collected. 
1 lyeopo erainws comprised 66 phanerogams, 1 fern, 
week poerum, 3 mosses and 12 lower cryptogams. fe 
: ny rea set of plants collected on the same expedition 
i Kew owes this interesting contribu- 
tion to the generosity of Mrs. W Punk Weel a Bath, who is 
now in her 89th year, but stil] 
ae sh tic plants which man years ago was given into her 
ona consists of 4] phanerogams, 1 lycopodium, and several 
ey are all contained in Hooker’s list, and are mostly 
from the same localiti 
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ment the incomplete 
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