Plants of the order Santalacee. 351 
owing. I append, therefore, its technical characters, as at 
present known. 
DARBYA, gen. nov. ord. Santalacearum. 
Flores dioici. Masc. Perigonium simplex turbinatum, ad 
medium 4—5-dum; lobis ovatis patentibus. Discus crassius- 
culus, perigonii penitus tubo adnatus, margine 4 — 5-crenatus. 
Stamina 4—5, e sinubus disci, lobis perigonii opposita: fila- 
menta brevia, subulata : anthere biloculares ; loculis fasciculo 
filarum araneosarum ad basin lobi perigonii annexis. Fem. 
ignota. Fructus . . . ; stylo unico superatus, unilocu- 
laris, monospermus. Frutex in Georgia et Carolina superiori 
vigens, glaber, cortice griseo. Folia opposita, uncialia, mem- 
ranacea, ovalia, margine integerrima, subundulata, breviter 
petiolata, venosa, subtus pallidiorà. Pedunculi axillares, soli- 
tarii, folio breviores, ebracteolati, umbellam 3 — 8-floram geren- 
tes; floribus parvis virescentibus, intus flavidis. 
Darsya vwsrELLULATA.— Hab. near Milledgeville, Geor- 
gia, Dr. Boykin, and at Macon, Professor Darby : also at 
Lincolnton, North Carolina, Rev. M. A. Curtis. 
lintended here to record some observations made last season, 
Upon the ovula and fecundation of Comandra, which, although 
exhibiting the same general plan as in Thesium, according to 
the investigations of Decaisne, appear to differ considerably in 
“ome particulars, But as the season approaches when I may 
be able to repeat and extend my observations, these remarks 
are for the present deferred. —— 
