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specimen of which I am indebted to the Horticultural 

 Society, another modification of inflorescence occurs. The 

 peduncles in this species have but one flower, which is 

 considered as one of the lateral flowers, the ovarium being 

 subtended by three bracts, placed exactly as in those of the 

 corresponding flower of Ahelia triflora. 



Of the Natural Order Caprifoliacece , the only certain 

 genera appear to me to be, — Caprifolium, Xylosteum, 8ym~ 

 phoricarpus, Linncea, Ahelia, Diervilla (to which belongs 

 Weiffelia of Thunberg, who described the epigynous gland 

 as the ovarium which he overlooked) Triosteum, and Ley- 

 sesteria of Dr. Wallich. I am not acquainted, however, 

 with any other character distinguishing them from the 

 genera, which have hitherto been associated with them, 

 except the very minute one of the raphe, or adnate portion 

 of the funiculus umbilicahs being on the outer instead of 

 the inner side of the ovulum. — Brown MS8. 



16] Matonia. (Brown MSS.) 



SoRi dorsales, rotundi, e puncto confluentise venularum 

 plurium orti. Indusixjm orbiculatum, peltatum. Capsula 

 sessiles, in serie simplici circa receptaculum dispositse. — 

 Brown. 



Ordo Naturalis, Filices, tribus Polypodiacece. — Brown. 



Habitus : Pilix pulcherrima, laevis, fronde subbipinnata. 

 Pinnae plures hinc superiores, pauciores inde secundse, 

 omnes pinnatifidse, lobis integerrimis, singulis basi, nunc 

 utroque latere, nunc inferiore tantiim monosoris, raro 

 bisoris. — Brown I. c. 



Matonia pectinata. Brown MSS. 



Indusium depresso-sphgeroideum, capsulas omninb in- 

 cludens, hemisphserio superiore crassiusculo, inferiore tenu- 

 issimo, menibranaceo, capsulis arete applicito, et mox sub- 

 evanido. Receptaculum parvum, paulo elevatum. Cap- 

 sule annulo oblique verticali incomplete cinctse. Semina 

 angulata. — Brown MSS. 



