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genera, not found attached to these cells or valves, 

 but to five glands, each of which is double, and all 

 of them seated on that thick abrupt angular body 

 which acts as a stigma*. Nor is it worth while to 

 dispute whether this whole body be a stigma or not, 

 with regard to the question under consideration; for 

 it is borne by the styles, above the germen, and 

 itself bears the anthers. I humbly conceive, how- 

 ever, with Linnceus and Jacquin, that as part of it, 

 at least, receives the pollen, stigma is full as good a 

 name for this body as Hallers term dolium, a tub ! 

 Still less is itworthwhiletocontrovertwith Kolreuter 

 the propriety of the term pollen, because the sub- 

 stance in question is not actually a dry powder, any 

 more than in the Orchis tribe, or in Mirabilis, 

 Exot. Bot. t. 23. That term is technically used for 

 the matter which renders the seeds fertile, including 

 its vehicle, whether the latter be capsular or glu- 

 tinous, in short, whatever the appearance or texture 

 of the whole may be. Another question remains, 

 more immediately to our present purpose, whether 

 these plants have five stamens or ten? Jacquin, who 

 has well illustrated several of them in his Miscell. 

 Austr. v. 1. t. 1 4, and Rottboll in a dissertation 

 on the subject, contend for the latter. Rottboll 



* Mr. R. Brown believes the cells secrete the pollen, and deposit it 

 on the stigma, as the pollen of some Orchidea sticks to any part of the 

 plant. I now readily assent to this, and therefore these plants must 

 remain in Pentandria. 



