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involved and intricate state of the whole genns absolutely required 

 it, I redoubled my exertions and new modelled the whole ; 

 and, with the assistance of the living plants themselves (which I 

 found indispensably necessary to have always before me), have 

 given to my specifics differentia, that decisive kind of perspicuity 

 which they could not possibly have received in any other way. 

 I claim no merit on this account, because any other person, of 

 equal diligence, might have done as much, perhaps more, had he 

 been in possession of the same advantageous materials. 



Exclusive of all the foregoing species and varieties, Avhich I 

 have described from the living plants, I have still a knowledge, 

 from figures and their accompanying descriptions only, of the 

 following species ; an account of which, in a systematical man- 

 ner, I am advised to add as a necessary appendix to my Arrange- 

 ment, that they may no longer remain the opprobrious impedi- 

 ment of such as are engaged in the study of this genus. The 

 reader must accept them, as I have done, upon the fidelity alone 

 of the authors from whose works I have taken them up ; whose 

 names (long since enrolled in the Nomenclature of the science) 

 are at once familiar and respectable to the ear of a botanist, viz. 

 Muntingius, Plukenet, and Pctiver, Commeline and Tilli. For the 

 most part they appear to me tolerable figures ; and, from the ac- 

 curacy which some well-known species accompanying them are re- 

 presented with, I am inclined to believe that they are themselves 

 not very imperfect. This, however, must be left for time to de- 

 velop. They are all, without a doubt, specifically distinct from 

 each other; and probably from all my preceding species and vari- 

 eties also. I do not think any of them have hitherto -been in the 

 British collections ; neither have they, as yet, been named by any 

 systematic writer, although some of them have been erroneously 



referred to well-known species. 



anomala. 



