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It has been already remarked, that there is iiothhig c^^i 

 in the structure of the cohnmi in Bafflcsia to enable us to 

 determine the position of the ovarium in tlie female flower ; [222 

 but that from another consideration there seems a some- 

 what greater probability of its ])eing superior. If, however, 

 it were even inferior, the objection to the affinity in question 

 would not be insuperable, the relationship of Ilomalince to 

 Passiforece being admitted. 



If Xaj^oleona or Bdvlsia loe really allied to Passijlorece, 



brevissimre geiiitalium inserta. Sttjli 5. Stigmata peltata, Capstda inflata, 

 quinquevalvis. Semhia axibus valvularum inserta. 



J'rutices {forsaii clecumbentes). Tolia alterna simplicia suhdentata, stipulis 

 lateralibus {idrinque soUtariis geminisve) dlstinctis, callosis. Florcs axillares 

 subsolitarii, pedunculis, quandoque tjrevissimis, basi bracteolatis. Urceolus 

 abbreviati'.s, ore denticulato. Pilanicnta simplici serie, viginti circiter. Aiitherse 

 incumhentes, lineares. Capsula chartacea. Semina axibus filiformibus valvula- 

 rum subsimplici serie inserta, pedicellata^ punctata, oninino Passiflorae. 



Patria. Africa aequinoctialis. 



1. S. fj^^^^^^^//'^, ramis tomeutosis, foliis oblongo-ovatis basi obtusis : adullis 

 pube rara conspersis, urceolo barbato. 



Smeathmannia pubcscens. Solander I.e. 



Loc. Nat. Guinea, prope Sierra Leone, Smeathman^ Afzelius. 



i. S. IcEvigata, ramis glabris, foliis oblongis ovatisve basi acutis : adultis 

 glaberrimis utrinque nitidis, urceolo imberbi inciso. 



Smeathmaunia Icevigata. Poland, l. c. 



Loc. Nat. Guinea, prope Sierra Leone, Smeathman^ Afzelius.^ Purdie. 



o. S. media., ramis glabris, foliis obovato-oblongis basi obtusis : adultis 

 utrinque glabris subopacis. 



Loc. Nat. Guinea, prope Sierra Leone, Smeathman. 



Porsan varietas S- la-cigatce. 



The affinity of Smeatlmainiia to Paropsia of ]M. du Petit Thouars will 

 probably be admitted without hesitation ; and its exact agreement in fruit in 

 every important point, both with this genus and with Modecca, seems to leave 

 no doubt of its belonging to Passijlorece., with which it agrees in habit even 

 better than Paropsia, and certainly much more nearly than ^lalcsherbia, 

 considered by M. de Jussieu (in Flor. Peruv. iii, ^;. xix) as belonging to the 

 same family. 



SmeaiJimannia differs then from the other genera of Passijlorae solely in its 

 greater number of stamina, which, however, may not be really indefinite ; and an 

 approach to this structure is already known to exist in an unpublished genus 

 (ihompsonia) discovered in Madagascar by Mr. Thompson, of which the habit 

 is entirely that of Beidamia, and whose stamina arc equal in number to the 

 divisions of both series of the perianthium. 



But from Sriieatlimannia the transition is easy to Pi/ania, which differs 

 chiefly in its still greater number of stamina, in the want of petals or inner 

 series of perianthium, in the single stjle being only slightly divideJ, and in the 

 form of its placcntcC. 



And Bi/ania, although it has a superior ovarium, may even be supposed to be 

 related to Asteranthos and Bekisia, if the fruit of these two genera should 

 prove to be unilocular with several parietal placenta:. 



