8 
@ different tint and different growth from the rest, and 
= uriant 
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were 3 carpels the ovary would be apocarpous. From the pecu- 
liarities of the stamens of the single flower examined it would 
appear that the odd sepal is next the axis, as in other Vochysiacea. 
In Erisma violacea the ovules are 2 collateral, attached to a 
projecting process of the placenta, amphitropal, with an inferior 
foramen. The ovule is attached by its side for some length, so 
that there is no funiculus. Its lower third is free from the placenta, 
and projects nearly to the base of the cell, having the foramen at 
Its apex; the upper end has a thick chalaza, like a small knot. 
From descriptions it would appear that no other genera of Vochy- 
staceeé have an inferior foramen, and, if so, these two might be 
Separated as a distinct section, offering one of the most conclusive 
evidences that the position of the foramen is not much to be relied 
on as an indication of affinity between orders more or less allied. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Heiieporvus ratipus In GLAMORGANSHIRE (p. 23). — This plant 
had long since been considered a true native in Glamorganshire, 
where it was discovered by the late Dr. Maton, many years since, 
growing in some plenty among hedges south of ‘‘ Park Mill,” in the 
wan 
locality for several successive seasons since 1838. The late 
H. C. Watson informed me he might have been a little too hasty 
in not considering H. fetidus truly wild in Glamorganshire, after he 
had printed « Topographical Botany.-—T. Bruezs Fiower. 
Trtsh Hreracta.—I was well pleased to observe that Mr. Hart 
me; but on 
. Arthur 
