Tropseolum pentaphyllum of Lamarck. 15 



In Tovaria, a genus clearly referrible to Capparidece, the stamina vary from 

 6 to 9, the stigma is 8-cleft, and the fruit is a round, sessile berry. In the 

 neighbouring group of Resedacece the stamina are also variable in number, 

 and the stigmata are 3 or 4. 



In the Geraniacece, as has been well remarked by that accurate observer 

 M. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, the same variety of aestivation occurs as in Tro- 

 pceolece; but in the former the styles are simply united, and the anthers 

 incumbent, being attached to the filaments by their middle, with compressed 

 paralltil cells, united by a linear connectivum. The stigmata are filiform and 

 piuinose, and the insertion of the stamina rather perigynous than hypogynous. 

 These circumstances, together with what has already been advanced, have led 

 me to dissent from the opinion of some of the most eminent authorities in 

 systematic botany, regarding the affinities of Tropoeolece, whose proper station, 

 I am fully persuaded, is near to the Capparidece and Cruciferce. 



