PODOPHYLLUM DIPHYLLUM LINN. 342 
pale rofe-colour, and falling off fome time before the 
expantion of the flower. 
Coroxra. The corolla confifts.of eight, lanceolate, or 
narrow, ovate, pointed, fomewhat concave, and {preading 
petals. In. figure, they refemble the fegments of the 
flower-cup, but are larger. 
StaMINa. The filaments, or threads, arecight in num- 
ber, fimple, flender, much fhorter than the corolla*, and 
inferted into the receptacle. ‘The. Authere are flat, large, 
erect, oblong, and incurved. 
PistittuM. The germen, or feed-bud, is fuperous, 
large, oblong, or ovate. The ftyle is cylindrical, thick, 
and fomewhat fhorter than the filaments. The ftigma is 
flefhy, radiated, or crifped. 
PerrIcarPiuM. A large capfule, turban-fhaped, pimp- 
led, tapering towards the lower part, thin, unilocular, and 
divided, on the pofterior part, by a longitudinalridge. It 
fplits, or opens, by a tranfverfe future, or lip, which 
is more than one half the circumference of the upper part. 
Semina. The feeds are from twelve to twenty in 
number, lying loofe. They are nearly ovate, and {mooth: 
The foregoing defcription is not, perhaps, in every re~ 
fect, as accurate as I could with. Future obfervations, 
however, will enable me to render it more worthy of your 
notice. 
Irs NAME. 
From the account which I have given of this plant, I 
have little doubt that you will agree with me in confider- 
ingitasa genus, diftin@ from the Sanguiaria and 
the Podophylum, to both which, however, it muft be 
confefled, it bears confiderable relation. AsI have not 
found: 
* They are about one fifth of the length of the corolla. 
+ Since the letter was written, a greater number of flowers of this plant have been examin- 
ed. [1 confequence of thisexamination, I do not find any neceflity for altering, in the Icaft, - 
the defcription which | have given, 
