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nullo przditis, connectivum autem superantibus, rimula apicali latera- 
iter dehiscentibus, extrorsum versis, pistillum elongatum, ovario 
ovoideo 3-loculari, in stylum longum subrepentino attenuatum, stigmate 
3-partito, e centro styli apicis partitionibus spathulato-linearibus 
angustis protenso-extensum, septis ovarii non ex toto perfectis, locula- 
mentis l-ovulatis, ovulis e placenta infra medium loculamenti ex axi 
exsertis, funiculo brevi suffultis, anatropis. Fructus ignotus.—Folium 
solitarium, hysterantium, petiolo longo crasso elato aculeolato maculato, 
vertice 3-chotomo v. 3-eruri, cruribus in laminam tritomam abeuntibus, 
partitionibus principalibus pinnatipartitis v. confluenti-pinnatipartitis, 
costa iterato-dichotomanti. Spatha et spadix saturate violascentes, 
prior magis in brunneo-rubrum, posterior magis in ceruleum. Species 
unica :— 
l. B. gigas, Seem. (sp. nov.), Tab. nostr. n. 95 et 96. Seem. Journ. 
of Bot. 1869, p. 278.— Mountains of Chontales, Republic of Nicara- 
gua, between the Javali Mine and the Quebrada de los lajas (Seemann !) 
LANATION OF Prares XCVI. and XCVII. (double Plate).—Fig. 1 
leaf (portrait of); 2, sp: "a same scale f); 8, e 
wn to same scale as leaf and spathe; 4, part of stem (portion of) ; 5, por- 
on of segments of leaf, di show venation ; 6, base ri 
of flowers ; 8, r fi ; 9- flower, side view; 10, fl th pe- 
rianth segments reflexed to show ovary ; 11, section of o it of 
style; 18, stamen, inner side; 14, stamen, outer side; 15, section throug 
16, ent from outer side (flattened out); 17, perianth 
m inner side to show veining (partly flattened out). d flower, 
from a sk f Antonio Fairburn (made in Nicaragua); t from 
ing plant in . W. Bull's on, taken W. G. Smith, 
and the dissection of flower by Dr. H. Trimen, fro 
preserved in spirit at the British Museum. 
NOTES ON ISLE OF WIGHT PLANTS. 
By Frep. Srratron, Eso, F.L.S. 
Ranunculus Flammula, var. B. pseudo-reptans, Syme. Tolerably 
common. This plant was sent to the London Botanical Exchange 
Club last year, and is mentioned in the curator’s report. The Isle of 
-Wight plant seems to be a late summer or autumn state only of R. 
Flammula, but it is remarkable how entirely in many localities it sup- 
plies the place, at a later period of the year, of the parent plant. The 
flowers are very much smaller, and have generally a star-like appear- 
ance, from the petals being narrow and widely separated ; bearing, in 
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