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the cavity. The pulp investing the seeds is perhaps never, 

 at any stage of the growth of the ovule, in contact with the 

 wall of the ovary. The lining of the mature pericarp is 

 glabrous and shining, though not of even surface, but rather 

 irregularly scrobiculate, TLough the two pulpy seed-lumps 

 are suspended from the summit of that which event-ually 

 becomes the lid of the pyxis, they seem to part from their 

 points of attachment before the falling away of the lid, and 

 from that time lie in the bottom of the persistent half of the 

 pericarp. The pulp of the seeds is of a deep coral-red, and 

 has a rather keenly acidulous flower, mingled with a decided 

 bitter. The circumscission of the capsule is neither very 

 prompt, nor in a geometrically perfect circle; but if tardy, 

 and slightly irregular/ it is still an unimpeachably circum- 

 scissile dehiscence; and the fruit of this genus resembles 

 quite closely that of Celastriis and its allies, in all but the 

 direction of tlie dehiscence. It may also be compared with 

 that of Piliosporuyn, Avith the same exception. It is in nowise 

 like that of Cornus, and the genus ought doubtless to be 

 excluded from the Cornaee^. Lindley at the outset w^as of 

 this opinion, and he proposed the ordinal name Garryace^ for 

 a family of which the several species of Garrya are still the 

 only knoAvn representatives. 



New or Noteworthy Species. 



XIV. 



Lotus suLrnuEEUS. SufPrutescent at the very base, the 

 slender branches 1 or 2 feet long, only sparsely leafy, florif- 

 erous chiefly near the ends: herbage canescent with an 

 appressed silky pubescence: leaflets 3 to 5, cuneate-obovate, 

 obtuse or acutish, 2 to 4 lines long: umbel unifoliolate- 

 bracted, many-flowered, on a slender peduncle about an inch 



