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the inside of a valve with a parietal placenta on the lower 
half. Meyer, therefore, had seen the ripe fruit, and could not 
have failed to see some seeds, unless all had fallen out; but 
as they did not differ from the common form of Jun cus seeds, 
he did not mention their shape, which he would pets ainly 
have done, and would have placed the plant in his second 
section, Marsippos, um, had they been at all appendicu- 
late, as they are in the plant with us heretofore taken for J. 
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r ones, has rarely, if ever, as far nform- 
ed, those leafy degenerations of the Aowerbonls so com- 
mon in var. le “us. Ts , who describes “J. para- 
their J. "panaitens or sieininchibs from this J. paradoxus is 
not very clear; they have evidently seen very few or single 
tent aif only, and seem to have laid too much stress on the 
ones at least) awned ; heads and flowers are of different sizes, 
but the sepals always regularly lance-subulate and very acute 
or almost awned but not rigid, and, with rare exceptions, 
equal in length; only if some few specimens of var. legiti- 
mus I have seen ile ent a little longer than the inner ones. 
Capsules as long as, or longer than, the sepals, pale green 
acute or apiculate at both ends, 0.20—0.25 line long, the length 
being equal to about 2! diameters, of a yellowish or light 
brown color and apparently 5 a on ie neatly poked 
pe and 6 or 7 ribs visible on one si 
aoweled i 5—2.0 lines loiieg and the ovate-pris obtusi 
ucronate capsule of the length of the sepals seins iasenky 
ever over 2 feet high; panicle, as well as he: extremely 
E. , Hall, Hb. n. 55) and Texas specimens (“Hog bed prai- 
ries” on the Guadaloupe, Wright, Guadaloupe to Matamoras, 
