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dicle is long, curved upwards, and, as it appears, towards the rima of the 
cotyledons, but the extreme intricacy of the lobes of these, prevents my 
speaking with confidence upon that point. 
Through the great kindness of my friend Dr Granam, 
I am enabled to give a more full analysis of the parts of fructi- 
fication in this most singular plant than has hitherto appeared, 
and, what gives me peculiar pleasure, (since the organ was un- 
known to Dr Sims, and was therefore omitted in his generic 
character given in the Botanical Magazine), of the embryo of 
the seed. ‘This is not only curiously and spirally twisted, even 
more so than in the division of the Cruciform family denomi- 
nated by DE CanDoLLE Spirolobee and Diplecolobee; but, 
what is, as far as I know, as great an anomaly in the cotyledons 
as the pinnatifid petals are in the corolla of this tribe, each co- 
tyledon is bipartite ; so that there are four lobes or segments 
i | of two. 
The blossoms, which are fragrant, their scent resembling 
that of Hawthorn flowers, were produced from seeds sent from 
Chili by Mr CruixsHanxs, in the greenhouse both of the 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Botanic Gardens, during the month 
of May, in great profusion. The individual figured in the Bo- 
tanical Magazine blossomed in Mr Watxer’s collection in 
November, a circumstance which may account for the diminu- 
tive size of its petals. 
Fig. 1. Flowering branch of a stem. Fig. 2. Portion of a branch with the 
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