440 APPENDIX. No. VY. 
Apetale by Samydez,* and on the other, though as it seems to me less 
intimately, with Polypetale by Violeze, would not accord with any arrange- 
ment of natural orders that has yet been given. While the admission of the 
floral envelope being entirely calyx ; and of the affinity of the class with Violez, 
would certainly be unfavourable to M. de Candolle’s ingenious hypothesis of 
petals in all cases being modified stamina. 
VIOLE.+ This order does not appear to me so nearly related to Passi- 
floreee as M. du Petit Thouars is disposed to consider it: for it not only has 
a genuine polypetalous corolla, which is hypogynous, but its anthers: differ 
materially in structure, and its simple calyx is divided to the base. The 
irregularity both of petals and stamina in the original genera of the order, 
namely, Viola, Pombalia,|} and Hybanthus, though characters of considerable 
importance, are not in all cases connected with such a difference im habit as to 
prevent their union with certain regular flowered genera, which it has lately 
been proposed to associate with them. 
The collection from Congo contains two plants belonging to the section of 
Violeze with regular flowers. One of these evidently belongs to Passalia, an 
unpublished genus in Sir J oseph Banks’s herbarium, and described in the manu- 
scripts of Solander from a plant found by Smeathman at Sierra Leone, which is 
perhaps not specifically distinct from that of Congo, or from Ceranthera dentata 
of the Flore @Oware. But Ceranthera,§ which M. de Beauvois, being unac- 
quainted with its fruit, has placed in the order Meliacez, is not different from 
Alsodeia, a genus published somewhat earlier, and from more perfect materials, 
by M. du Petit Thouars,|| who refers it to Viole. The latter generic name 
ought of course to be adopted, and with a change in the termination (Alsodine) 
it may also denote the section of this order with regular flowers. 
Physiphora of Sir Joseph Banks’s herbarium, discovered by himself in 
Brazil, differs from Alsodeia only in its filaments being very slightly connected 
at base, and in the form and texture of its capsule, which is membranaceous, 
and, as the name imports, inflated. 
* Ventenat in Mém. de VInstit. Sc. Phys. 1807, 2 sem. p. 142. 
+ Juss. Gen Pl. 295. Ventenat Malmais. 27. 
+ Vandelli Fasc Pl. p.7, 1.1. lonidium, Venten. Malmais. 27. 
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