PSIS OF THE GERARDIE®, 
tion it appears that the valves of Esterha- 
nea. = she Scene cause i cde 
ie Dargerie in the genus | Este rhazya, 
and reduced the other Virgularie of Mar- 
tius, together with Ruiz and Pavon's spe- 
cies (for it is evident that V. revoluta is 
soil to > Gerardie of ihg section Eu- 
z% allied to Esterhazya is the plant 
ented by Nuttall under the name of 
onradia meae Anne but as the name 
tions of Cerda are, as du as hitherto 
wn, exclusively American. The East 
an and African ones belong to two dis- 
tinct sections. 
Among the East Indian ones, the G. del- 
| phinifolia long remained the only one 
known. Don, in his Prodromus Flore 
JNepalensis established a genus Sopubia, 
whi e distinguished from Gerardia by 
the campanulate corolla, the simple stig- 
‘mate, and the structure of the anthers, 
which have one cell large and erect, by 
hich they cohere, and the other small, 
mpty, and divergent. The first character, 
ever, is common to a great many Ame- 
rican Gerardie, and the simple stigma is 
s stant in the whole genus, the structure 
in G. dE. ifolia, Linn., G. scabra, 
fro e Cape, e stricta, Wall, 
ters, I have thought it best to co 
them as a mere section of that dans. 
observed any peculiarity in the corolla i 
the ill-dried specimens I had before 
Having now, however, had the opportuni 
of examining some be 
Dr. Hooker’s Herbarium, dried at Si 
by Lady Dalhousie, I have ascertained. 
that each lobe of the corolla is bifid, which, - 
tegether with some difference in habit, wil 
justify the placing it at least in a ipie 
section, to which I have given the name, 
now unoccupied, of Dargeria. 
There remain two Linnean species the 
one G. tubiflora, is a Buchnera, or perhaps. 
a new genus closely allied to it, the oth 
G. ——— or Melasma scabrum of Ber- 3 
s congener and closely allied to Phy 
to me as marked as those which se 
any Gerardieous genera. I have dev 
adopted for them Berger’s name of Mela: 
a, which I have taken in preference 
Nigrina, given to it by Linneus in 
Mantissa, in order to avoid confusion with 
Thunberg’s Nigrina, a very different pla 
itasa third species of Melasma. Ga 
meria, Do has i in some pa 
