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Dr. Seemann himself.* In Jacaranda, on the contrary, aecording to Mr. 
Miers,f the pF. are parletal along the middle of each valve, and do 
not meet in the axis, so that the fruit is one-celled only. It therefore 
seems to me evident that Markhamia, supposing our plant to belong to 
r 
entham has very justly remarked that Seemann must have used the 
e marginicidal in some peculiar sense, since a septum placed transversely 
in relation to the valves “is incompatible with a marginicidal dehiscence, 
Chinese species is very closely allied both to Dolichandrone and Muenteria 
but differs from both, as well as from the African Spathodea, ae the 
absence of the rudimentary fifth stamen. A similar difference, however, 
occurs in Diplanthera, where D. tetraphylla, R. Br., D. bancana, Scheff., 
D. sessilifolia, Vieill., and D. montana, Vieill., have four stamens only, D. 
speciosa, Seem., also the rudiment ofa fifth ;$ and the genus Siam 
Teijsm. and Binnend. , comprises both pentandrous and didynamous species, 
the latter with a staminodium, so that it is tolerably clear this pg aea 
ter of but slight importance. I have never made Bignoniacee a special 
object of study, nor can I pretend to be well acquainted with the order; 
but, judging from the characters assigned them, and from figures, some o 
de recently proposed genera appear to me founded on very trivial distine- 
ons. Ihave noted the structure of "io seed in the Hai-nan plant, for 
the purpose of showing how closely it agrees with that of Spathodea lutea 
lp ge to Muenteria by Seemann), as described by Bentham.| 1 can 
onfirm Mr. Miers s observation that the nate is lines ente radiate 
run the body of the seed into the wing are apparently due 
or wrinkling of the laminze of the duplicat ted testa, here ee ea with- 
out any interposed embr but which, as he states, are separable 
s d much difficulty after temi . The apparent ‘stipules look as 
if they were merely the owe est dwarfed pair of leaflets, cum often a 
clean ohyilula i is left, the false a remaining on the branch. 
LA 
NOTES E Aaa SOME PLYMOUTH PLANTS. 
T. R. AncurR Briees, F.L.S. 
Chelidonium majus, L.—Some British botanists seem to be doubtful 
as to the position this greens occupy in their flora, but were the circum- 
stances under which i ars in the neighbourhood of Plymouth to be 
taken as a test of its ty dai character or otherwise, it would certainly 
oo i: A III. 332, t. 40. 
t Op. ci 
i Ha i 9. if, without 
Thave eae D. tetraphylla eon Mira s two species myse oF ihe 
finding any staminode in either. The latter are evidently co 
Australian plant. D. amt - have des ste 
| Hooker's * Niger Flora, 4 $2 
