380 Celestial Phenomena from Oct. 1. 1831 to Jan. 1. 1832. 



ferruginous, stellate. Capitulum spherical, terminal, solitary, nearly ses- 

 sile. Flowers dioecious ? sessile. Calyx 5-parted, segments ovate, acute, 

 spreading, recurved at the points, hairy especially on the back, shining 

 and nearly glabrous in front. Petals .5, pale yellowish-green, linear, spa- 

 thulate, folded and twisted, recurved, glabrous, scarcely ciliated, fleshy, 

 especially at the base. Stamens 5, opposite the segments of the calyx, 

 and alternating with the petals ; filaments very short, thick, and fleshy, 

 glabrous ; anthers pale red, and equal in length to the filaments, bilocu- 

 lar, cells opening longitudinally by two unequal valves, the larger of 

 which spreads outwards, connective blunt and slightly projecting beyond 

 the anther-cells. Styles 2, channelled, and ragged along their inner side, 

 upper half glabrous, lower half (abortive germen ?) hairy. 

 This cui'ious plant, the structui'e of whose flowers appears to me to have 

 been misunderstood •, we received from Kew, through the kindness of Mr 

 Aiton. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and flowered in the 

 greenhouse in the Botanic Garden during the summer and autumn. 



» On reading this statement, Mr Brown did me the favour to refer me to his observations in 

 Abel's Voyage to China, p. 374. I was not before aware that he had noticed the plant, but there, 

 with his uniform accuracy, he gives a just view of the parts, in the cstablbhment of the natural 

 order HamameHdeie, in which he placed it. 



Celestial Phenomena from October 1. 1831 to January 1. 1832, 

 calculated for the Meridian of Edinburgh, Mean Time. 

 By Mr George Innes, Astronomical Calculator, Aberdeen. 



The times are inserted according to the Civil reckoning, the day beginiifaig at midnight 

 — The Conjunctions of the Moon with the Stars are given in Right Ascension. 



