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MEMOIR ON A NEW PLANT 



arid many others, fliould be given to plants in order to be 

 tranfmitted to pofterity ? Or was it proper that fuch men 

 ihould be claffed with thofe who hardly know botany by 

 name, and yet have their names given to plants ? The 

 word Heterandra fignifies two difierent kinds offtamina. 

 1 finifh this memoir by a comparative defcription of 

 this plant and the pontederia, which will enable you to 

 decide on the juftice of my obfervations, and may aflift 

 naturalifts in fixing its proper place in the natural order. 



Defcription of the Pontederia ^ ac- \ 

 cording to Linnaus. | 



Spatha commnnis, oblonga | 

 latere dehifcens. j 



Corolla (calix Juffieu) mono- j 

 petala, bipardta, tubulofa, la- 

 bium fuperius reftum, tripar- 



Defcription of the Heterandra. 



Spatha, ut in Pontederia, 

 ex utriculo foliorum egrediens. 



Corolla (calix Juffieuj mo- 

 nopetala, fexfida, fubbipartita, 

 tubulofa, infera, labium fupe- 



titum, exterius ccquale. Labium rius tripartitum, lacinia inter- 



iaferius reflexum, tripartitum la- 

 ciniis iequalibus. 



Stamina, filamenta fex ccrollce 



media major, interior bafi co- 

 lorata, neftarii aemula ; labium 

 inferius tripartitum, lacinia in- 

 termedia auguftior, refiexa. 

 Stamina, filamenta tria co- 

 inferta, quorum tria fubulata, ' rollce inferta, quorum duo mi- 

 longiora ori tubi corolla?, tria nora approximata ad bafm laci- 



reliqua bafi ejufdem tubi inferta. 

 Antherse ereftae, oblongce. 



ni« neftarii aemuli, antherae 

 fulvje rotundfp, altera longitu- 

 dine flyli didans, anthera ob- 

 longa pallida. 



Piftillura, germen ejufmodi 



Pifbllum germen oblongum 

 inferum aut fuperiim. Stylus fed Temper fuperum. 

 femplex, declinatus, ftigma craf- i 

 fmfculum. 



Capfula carnofa, conica, api- 

 ce la to inflexo, trilocularis, tri. 

 angularis, trifulca. 



Semina fubrotunda, plurima. 



Capfula, oblonga,' trigona, tri- 

 locularis a latere dehifcens. 



Semina oblonga utriufque ob- 

 tufa, plurima. 



The 



