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Original Articles. 
ON HYDNORA AMERICANA, R.Br. 
By Jonn Miers, F.R.S. 
(Tas. 135a.) 
TuE species of Hydnora lescribed first made known in 1844 
by Mr. Rob. Bro own, 1 2 a brief diagnosis in the acai to 
his celebrated memoir on Rafflesia, published in the Linnean Trans- 
actions. It was established upon a solitary specimen in the sgesigg 
he 
of Sir Wm. Hooker, collected most probably by Dr. Gillies in 
= Sie nor drawing could be found. A considerable afer 2 
to me that it would be i damaile to place on record my remembrance 
of oR curious plant, and with this view the following description is 
give 
AMERICAN Br., Linn. Trans. v. xix., p. 245: herm- 
ates NORA R. : 
mplirbd:te, parasitica ; " porianthio chia superne “inflato et | pyri- 
formi, crassiuscule coriaceo, extus le eviter verruculoso, hepatice rubi- 
nectivis imo in annulum epigynum nexis: antheris linearibus, extror- 
sis, parallelis, creberrime adnatis, rima longit tudinali dehiscentibus : 
pr 
(mihi lecta): ». s. in Mus. K w (specim. i immat. ), prov. Tacuman, 
prope Santiago del Estero (Tweedie 
oro-corto is a small village in ‘the desert plain lying | pias 
N.s. voL, 2. [sepremBer, 1873. ] 
