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these evidently l^eloiigs to Passalia, an unpublished genus 

 in Sir Joseph Banks's herbarium, and (lescribed in the 

 manuscripts of Solandcr fiom a })lant fouuil by Snicath- 

 man at Sierra Leone, which is perhaps not specifically 

 distinct from that of Congo, or from Cerantlicra deniafa 

 of the riorc crOwarc. 13ut Ccranlhera} which M. de 

 Beauvois, being unacquainted with its fruit, has placed in 

 the order iNlcliaccge, is not different from Ahodeia, a genus 

 published somewhat earlier, and from more perfect mate- 

 rials, by M. du Petit Thouars," who refers it to Violea3. 

 The latter generic name ought of course to be adopted, 

 and with a change in the termination {Ahodince) it may 

 also denote the section of this order with regular flowers. 



Flrf/sipliorn of Sir Joseph j^anks's herbarium, discovered 

 by himself in Brazil, differs from Alsodeia only in its fila- 

 ments being very slightly connected at base, and in the 

 form and texture of its capsule, which is membranaceous, 

 and, as the name imports, inflated. 



Five species belonging to this section of Violese occur in 

 Aublet's History of the Plants of Guiana, where each of cm 

 them is considered as forming a separate genus. Of three 

 of these genera, namely, Conohoria, Itinorca, and Miana 

 the flowers alone are described ; the two others, Passiira 

 and Piparea, were seen in fruit only. 



Prom the examination of flowers of x\ublet's oricinal 

 specimens of the three former genera, in Sir Jose})h 

 Banks's herbarium, and of the fruit of Conohoria, which 

 entirely agrees with that of Passiira, and essentially Avith 

 that (di Plparea, I have hardly a doubt of these five plants, 

 notwithstanding some difl'crences in the disposition of their 

 leaves, actually belonging to one and the same genus ; and 

 as they agree with PlipipJiora in every respect, except in 

 the texture and form of the capsule, and with the Pa.smlia 

 of Sierra Leone and Congo, except in having their stamina 

 nearly or entirely disthict, it ap})ears that all those genera 

 may be referred to Alsodeia. 



I have also examined, in Sir Joseph Banks's herbarium, 

 a specimen of Pentaloha sessilis of the Flora Cochinchi- 



1 Flore d'Oware, 2, p. 10. " IlisL des Fcget. des Isles de VAfrique^ 55. 



