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r rioN. — A] ' ■ — Burman 



Since the foregoing remarks were written, much b 

 knowledge of the order, but little to the theory ofstructun 

 whicb Bcation Bhould be founded. 



I have pointed out' {F nder Zj I that thi 



..ii tin- labellum have probably a much higher import tl. 



Dr !;. Brown long aim H lich, PI. A ■ . I : 

 the processes of the lip found in P 



stamina! apparatus, completing the customary aumber of male 

 Endogena Be even remarked that " perhaps it may be consider) 



! where the labellum is furnished with a process, however mil 

 its axis." I have not that hy] I 



nothavii I in findh f its truth ; on tin 



had appeared t> me that the processes in 



stigma: I am, however, bound to admit that upon the whole there is 

 of facta so much in favour of the theorj ,-i.ms ol 



that it h and more probable. It iB especially I 



of pi ■ found on the Up is usually oi 



may represent the front i 

 maj it the two laterals only, and throe may n all ll 



rkable that where thi or three rows of pi -"^~* 



be two lateral an as if they 



represented • > mi 



in the centre. To which it may be added, that where m 

 three rows of pr at, nevertheless, the am 



three seems fundamental The ider will 



understand this by reference to the accompanying diagram, in i 

 which the supposed inner na is rej ' x v 



three black dots (•), and the outer pen 



ih'ts ( .i ). 



A cording to this theory the stamina! 

 of two rings or whorls, 



general t : 1 of the outer whorl is alone j 



perfection is confined to the two lateral inn 

 . suppressed, as in many Dendr 

 column or crests upon the lip : the 

 lateral inner Btaminodee, and the crests of the 1 ; ; 

 outer and one centra] inner staminodi . 

 this subject appears favourable to thi 

 Wished if the crests of the Up won- d I 

 nol yet been observed. 



If this be so, the accompanying dia 

 Btaminal apparatus in the different 

 oases but one, No. 5, the exterior rii 

 stamen belongs, and the inner ring the 

 For the convenience of description tl 

 may be called the oufc r sta . 

 paradoxical Beries may be termed the 

 indicate an entire suppression of si 



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