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institutions, do not exist in India, not even in the Public Botanic 

 Gardens. The only way therefore by which I could hope to attach 

 any interest to this paper was, by confining myself to the genera 

 contained in it, which appeared to me either new to science, or 

 imperfectly known. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE I, 



IxONANTHES RETICULATA, DODECANDKA. 



I. reticulata. 



1. Flowering branch, natural size. 



2. Flower. 



3. Same, sepals, upper part of stamina, and style removed. 



4. Anther, back view. 



5. Ditto, front. 



6. Pistillum and lower parts of stamina. 

 I. dodecandra. 



7. Flower. 



8. The same, sepals and upper parts of stamina and style cut away. 



9. Pistillum, annulus, and lower parts of the filaments. 



10. Part of the annulus and three filaments, inner face. 



11. Anther, back view. 



12. Ditto, front. 



13. Pollen, ( ¥ V triplet) . 



14. Situation of petals in bud. 



15. Stigma. 



16. Ovulum. 



17. Ovarium, transverse section. 



18. Fruit. 



19. Same, dehisced. 



20. Seed. 



21. Same, longitudinal section. 



22. Abortive seed — a. body of the ovulum — b. funiculus. 



lare, ob placentis intus productis pseudo-triloculare. Ovula 6, pendula. Styli 3, 

 bipartiti. Fructus capsularis, vertice piano valvis tribus dehiscens ; placenta 

 trigonse, maxiinse, in axi concurrentes. Semina marginato-alata. 



Habitus — Plantese indicce, scandentes , carnosae, glabra. Folia indivisa, vel 

 trisecta (Arn). Flores purvi, paniculati, viridescenles. Antherarum dehiscenlia 

 transversa. Fructus clavalus, aubtrigonus, apicem infra annulatus. 



Obs. — Genus ab aliis subfumilise distinctum, Alsomitra excepta ?, sepalorum 

 aliquorum cohesione, placentis intus productis, ovulorum numero, et seminibus 

 uaarginato-alatis. Z. Vightiana. Arn. verisimiliter genere excludenda. 



