be more truly gynandrous, but instead of his corollary, “ i shews that class to be founded in na- 
ture,” I should say, it shews that class to be purely artificial, for the genus has no affinity whatever 
with Orchidew. After the corolla is fully expanded, the style is exceedingly irritable, especially in 
the sunshine, snapping back, if its lower bended part be touched, to the other side of the pericar- 
terminated by a red gland. Pedicles from 2 to 1 line | A lanceolate-wedge-shaped bracte, 
me underneath, is placed at the bottom of each branch, but none at the pedicles. Pe- 
ricarpi arrow! -shaped, 2-locular nearly up to the middle, very hairy. Calyx about 1 line 
rather inezquilateral; the 5th is very small, exceedingly recurved, round with the adjacent sinusses 
ventricose, and entirely covered by a yellow gland: Tentacles 4, yellow; two at the base of the 
small division, and confluent with its margin, about 3 a line long, horizontally divaricated, nar- 
rowly wedge-shaped ; two at the base of the upper side of the next divisions, placed a little within the 
margin, simi t smaller. Nectarium orange colour, mitre-shaped, one side rather shorter, ap- 
pearing as if pressed to the base of the style. Style 34 lines long, reclined over the little division of 
the limb; at the first curvature, which is the irritable part, somewhat dilated, elsewhere linear, 
compressed, smooth, Stigma confluent with the style below the middle of its back, 1-lateral, its 
face turned towards the upper side of the style, almost orbicular, convex, bearded at the sides with 
thick succulent hairs. Anthers 2, dark violet with yellowish sides, attached to the face of the stigma ; 
their lobes opposite to each other and not parallel as in most vegetables, 1-locular, 2-valveds 
splitting without any motion ofthe style. Pollen white. Seeds numerous, very minute. : 
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and Anthers, highly magnified. 4. The Nectarium at the base of the Style, with a portion of the 
Style, highly magnified. 5, Different views of the Pericarpium and Seeds, 
