250 G. Bentham’s Anniversary Address 
ual elements and in the development of floral appendages 
tions calculated to promote the welfare of the race. In the 
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from the latter the Conifers ;—the former ever increasing in the 
sexual; the latter retaining rather more of their primitive sim- 
plicity. Welwitschia does not absolutely belong to ara and 
ried to the perfection exemplified in the two great subclasses; 
and the race would diab 1 
