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marked that it had been referred with a doubt to Cyrtan- 

 dracece by Professor Lindley, in his enumeration of the 

 genera belonging to that family, I should probably have 

 overlooked it altogether, as I had previously done with 

 respect to Ejiithema of Blume, which the author included in 

 Primuhcece, though unquestionably the same genus with 

 my Aikinia, also belonging to Cyrtandracece. 



With regard to the genus itself, it may be doubted 

 whether Loxotis and Ghssanthus ought to be generically 

 distinguished merely or chiefly on account of the difference 

 in the number of their antheriferous stamina, especially as 

 they entirely agree in habit, in which there is something 

 peculiar. It is not a little remarkable, that in some of the 

 more minute and less important differences between them, 

 the intermediate structure or connecting link should be 

 found in a species sent by Dr. Schiede from Mexico {Ghs- 

 santhus Meccicana, Br. ined.), and that this should be 

 the only plant belonging to Cyrtandracea hitherto observed 

 in any part of America. 



Tab. XXIV. Fig. 1. Loxotis obliqua, natural size. 

 Fig. 2. A front view of a flower, slightly magnified. Fig. 3. 

 An opposite view of corolla only. Fig. 4. Corolla laid open, 

 showing the antheriferous and the two lateral barren stamina 

 (the minute rudiments of the 5th omitted). Fig. 5. Calyx, 

 after the falling of corolla, with the persistent style and 

 stigma. Fig. 6. An antheriferous stamen. Fig. 7. Pis- 

 tillum separate and magnified (the hypogynous incom- 

 plete disk wanting). Fig. 8. Upper part of style with the 

 slightly and unequally bilobed stigma. Fig. 9. Capsule 

 with its persistent style, natural size. Fig. 10. The same 

 magnified. Fig. 11. Capsule after bursting, showing the 

 form of one of the parietal placentas. Fig. 12. A placenta 

 separate. Fig. 13. A transverse section of a capsule, show- 

 ing the origin of the placenta and insertion of seeds on both 

 surfaces. Fig. 14. A valve of the capsule with its placenta, 

 from which the seeds have been removed. Fig. 15. A 

 side view of the same. Fig. 16. A seed, with its testa. 

 Fig. 17. A seed, deprived of its testa. Fig. 18. The 

 embrvo. 



