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late; antherH vei-Hatile : ovary villous, somewhat stipitato, 3-('i- 

 lobed, 3-G-collod; Htylos Hliort, coherent, as many, and Htignia 

 as many lobed as there are carpels in the ovary; ovules ana- 

 tropous, two in each cell, pendulous from the inner angle; 

 micropylar extremity ])roduced u])\vard, as in the figure of 

 Guaiaciirn, Gray's Genera, but in less tubular shape (in the 

 description of Viscainoa mentioned as a "small hemis- 

 pherical white stro])hiolo)"; raphe ventral; fruit more or 

 less pubescent, 3-G lobed, f-1 inch long, tipped by the 

 stout styles; carpels coriaceous, separating at maturity from 

 each other, navicular (in dehiscence), opening along the 

 inner angle, and remaining attached by slender threads to 

 the upper part of the axis formed by the united placontfe: 

 seeds two in each carpel, remaining suspended from ab(JV0 

 the middle of the axis, ovoid, witli a fleshy green or glau- 

 cous testa and thin dark-brown togtnen; albumen cornoous- 

 cartilaginous, rimose; embryo nearly straigfit in the axis 

 of the albumen almost as long as the seed; cotyledons 

 nearly orbi-cular, foliaceous, or a little fleshy, curved at the 

 apex, their edges directed to the raphe and to the axis of 

 the fruit, radicle short, wjnical, superior. 



It will be observed that tlie description of I ho seed is 

 almost exactly that of Gtiaiucum by Dr. (Uny in (>(iii. of 

 Am. Plants — even the wording has l)oon intentionally fol- 

 lowed in order to still more <!mphasize their ros(jnil>lanc(!. 



Some curious errors which appear in the earlier descrip- 

 tions are herein corrected. Dr Kellogg, in the original 

 notice, states that there are pellucid dots in the leaves; a 

 careful examination of these makes it probable that ho was 

 misled hy small gummy exudations. The errors of the sec- 

 ond description (Vvicainoa) , which contains the following 

 statements: "testa dull and dark-brown; embryo very small 

 at the base of a copious hard-cartilaginous or almost cor- 

 neous albumen; cotyledons rounded, somewhat convolutely 

 enfolding the short blunt radicle " — are more vital and quite 

 incomprehensible in the light of the author's succeeding 



