belonging to the Natural Family of the Aurantia, 221 



varies very often, in number of loculamcnts and of feeds, from the ripe 

 fruit. — The comparifon of thcfe two flates, of the fame objeft, re- 

 quires an attention, from thofc who feek the ways of nature, far 

 greater than has been hitherto beftowed on it. 



Thcfe reafons, I hope, will be a fufficient excufc in the eyes of 

 every candid Botaiiift, for my attempting to defcribe the fruiflifica- 

 tion of the plants which are the fubje£t of this paper, in twelve, 

 inftcad of fix divifions, in the following manner : 



T. T\\t flower^ in the four ufual Linnaean divifions oi calyx, coroll, 

 Jlamina, and pijlill \ marking, however, the infertion of the 

 ftamina, and the nature of what Linne, in analogous plants, 

 has called neclarium. 



2. T\\e. fruit, in four divifions, viz, the parts of the flower which 

 perfift and accompany the fruit, and which I defign by the 

 name of induvia;, the pericarp, the placentalion of the feeds, 

 and the dehifcentia, 



3. Thtfeedfm. four divifions, viz. its form, its integuments, the peri- 

 fperm, and the embryo. 



The two genera which we are now to confider are deficient in 

 fome of thefe parts ; but it is equally interefting to the Botanift to 

 know the abfence of fuch parts, as to be acquainted with their 

 form when prefent. What new terms I am obliged to employ 

 fliall be explained in the notes. 



The 



