LXXVIIL. 
STYLIDIUM GLANDULOSUM. =” 
Glandular Stylidium. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Campanulacee. Juss. Gen. p. 164. 
<chisiasenietaenanai 
2-labiatus, labiis varie fissis. Corolle Tubus brevis : Limbus 
gg banise ris, 5- fidus lacinid und tere basi varie glandulosus tentaculisque ornatus. Nectarium 
mitreforme, Stylus face compressus, reclinato-déflaxus, € levissimo tactu in latus oppositum 
transiliens. Stigma amplum, convexum, lateribus barbatum, Antherz 2, disco stigmatis sessi 
- didymz lobis obversis. Herbe Suffruticesve facie Lobeliarum. Folia si ia A nunc in rosas COn- 
Serta, sepe glandulosa, succulentula. Flores carnei purpureive ; paniculis: term. 
decompositisve. Bractee ad ramos solitarie. An omnium stylus irritabilis, eed 
* Suffruticose. 
§. foliis 5-9 lineas longis, linearibus, vix crenulatis, mucronatis glabris: panicula decomposita . 
corollz lacinid minim disco toto glandulosa ; tentaculis 4 
Sponte nascentem in New Holland, oris-occidentalibus, legit Rtss- Brown. 
Floret apud nos 2 Maio in Augustum. 
The genus of Stylidium was. established by SwaRTZ, from four species, in a paper communicated 
: ublication of the 4th volume of WILLDENow’s Species 
Plantarum, in 1805, where a very insufficient character of it first appear 
In the same year, on the 8th of July, a memoir of La Sad s was read at the French 
full extract from, this, with 
Annales du Museum, by which all their parts, 
if we except the Embryo and curious economy of the cf tge’ may be pretty well understood ; the au- 
thor then supposing that they would prove the foundation of @ new Natur al Order between Orchi- 
dee and Scitaminee. : 
The real affinity of the genus however to to Campanulacee of Juss1Ev, was first at least promulgated 
by SMITH, who in his Exotic Botany for January, 1806, being yet unacquainted [ha 
there fig ‘ch he had himself sent to 
vga is. ems as wi ormation he mat pes 
irritability of the st: an but that gentleman will probably chang of flower. 
ration of their. reguicn Aa ered genera - nera from Campanulacee if Forstera has.a regular , 
they cannot even form a section in the order. fl at Kew 
For this species, Mr. Hooker is indebted to E. J. A. WooprorD, Esq. Isaw - in aa ait this 
in July,~1804, ik wal upon the return of Mr. Brown who had colle < Oa 
irritable genus, from a circumstance not worth « , Dost ited a considerable degree of cu- 
Tiosity, and became the — of - conversation. Dou joubts arose ae ay 
Lanpizne, from a new examination. dvied specimens, takes up the last opinion *_ 
: Poe Seer ith the tre sil a its be oR 
the stigma is almost sessile.” He also acknowledges the affinity « the genus, a5 ei 
© Coma ao tells us that in Phyllachne erect placed agrrcey : 
Wn opinion on this te ee w is. 
sige secreting part belg in the middle of them. Tika with aa gst 
