120 0, BAY NALDIA, 
origin to two underlying cell-zones. In ull-grown seed o 
nost genera the epidermal cells of the testa are sicher: - with bands 
of thickening, which either extend wholly or partially across the cell, 
and are then either simple or branched, or else run up and down the 
cell-wall, the opposite thickenings bebe someti imes connected by 
e 
thick-walled, it takes in most instances the principal share both 
in protection of the embryo and in the due adjustment of the supply 
of water during germination. The layers of cells lying under this 
derived from the inner te nie remain thin-walled and are pressed 
together by the growing emb 
Hayw. nov. gen. Lobeliacearum, auctore Aveusto Kanrrz.— 
Flos pla tenbyaous zygomorphus, opisthodromus resupinatus 
hermaphroditus, cyclicus, cyclis ex indole pentameris, gyneciali 
vero dep to Yalyx basi ovario connatus, pentamerus sub- 
lobosus, oblongus, sepalis 3 superioribus, 2 inferioribus (in flore 
resup ineequalibus, supra basin connatis ceterum 
lineari-lanceolatis, subulatis. Corolla disci margini inserta, sympetala, 
pentar revior, bilabi labiu 
m 
superius (in flore resupinato) petalis duobus #qualibus longitudinaliter 
fissum, inferius tripetalum squale vel petalo medio paullo oi po 
petalorum partes libere apicales subincumbentes vel patentes. Andree 
m tamerum a pe supra plus minus remotum, epigynum 
tamina 5 monadelpha styla cingentia. Filamenta basi libera inferne 
dilatata juxta gaurd longitudinem in tubum connata, duo writ: 
#, duo inferiores paullo preeiorea: 
vertice barbate vel penicilla ate. Pollinis ae discreta, flava, ellip- 
soidea, levia, ynecium dimerum, synearpieu m; earpidia 2. 
Pistillum turbinatum stamina superans. Ovarium 
bosum, pr ees Placente carnosule. ula pl 
undique a, integumentis 2. anatropa. Stylus apicalis, simplex, 
filiformis, one anthesi inclusus, demum ex andreecio exserto. Stigmat: 
duo m , lobis rotundatis, glabris, subtus pilorum collectivorum 
° infera vel semisupera, bilocularis, ‘guinies tecteate. 
ala cineta.. Embryon orthotropus in endospermio ex 
cellulia is colina divisione ortis composi iti, axi, aslo fere longi- 
tudine. 
Herbe elate, 1-4 metrales, perennes, paludam Brasilie incolw,* 
eaulibus simplicibus fistulosis, inferne nudes, foliis usque 40 cm. longis 
alternis. bracteis magnis linearibus vel ete. racemis a 30 em. 
usque fere metralibus, petalis ceruleis, cyanis vel a 
