104 Mr. Bbown's Observations on the 



Sohri/a of the Flora Peruviana, it appears evident that this genus 

 is reducible to Meyera. Enhydra of Loureiro's Flora cochinchi- 

 mensis, though described somewhat difierently, and referred to 

 Polygamia segregata, I have little doubt, belongs to the same 

 genus; as does unquestionably Hingstha of Roxburgh's unpub- 

 lished Flora Indica, where it is also referred to Polygamia segre- 

 -gata. This plant, which I have examined, is scarcely distinct 

 from a species of Meyera that grows in New South Wales. 



Cryphiospermum of Mons.de Beauvois's interesting Flore d'Oware 

 et Benin, although reduced by him to Cichoraceae, I have but 

 little hesitation in referring also to Meyera. And lastly, Cccsulia 

 radicans of Willdenow, likewise a native of sequinoctial Africa, is 

 perhaps not specifically different from Cryphiospermum repens of 

 Mons. de Beauvoia. 



MeLAM PODIUM 



■was estaTilished by Linneus, in the first edition of Genera Plan- 

 tarum and in Hortus Cliffortianus, from a specimen found by 

 Houston near Vera Cruz, and communicated by Miller to CHf- 

 ford, in whose Herbarium, now forming part of the collection 

 of Sir Joseph Banks, it still exists. It does not appear that this 

 plant has been found by any other botanist than Houston; and 

 according to the character given by Linneus of Melampodium, it 

 inust be considered the only species of the genus. 



In the second edition of Species Plantarum he added to it, 

 but with a doubt, Melampodium australe, a plant adopted from 

 Loefling, according to whose description the pappus and surface 

 of the seed are widely different from those of the original species. 

 Swartz has referred to the genus a third species, M. humile, en- 

 tirely distinct in these respects from both the former; and more 

 recently a fourth species, M. longifolium, with seeds differently 

 XDodified from all the others, has been annexed .to it. 



But 



