EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



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theras connate. The fruit inferior to the caljx, 

 and connected with it, (34.) 

 24. Pollen of Amaryllis regincE^ (335.) 



PLATE III. 



, 1. Male and female flowers of Phyllanthus epiphyllan- 

 thus W, out of their buds. The apparent flower- 

 stalk is an abortive leaf. The male floWers have 

 abortive pistilla, (174.) The three filaments are 

 united in one pillar. On their base are nectareous 

 glands, which are wanting in the female flowers, 

 (138, 187.) Of the six flower-stalks, the interior 

 alternate with the exterior, and the former may 

 therefore be considered as petals, (196.) 



2. Piqueria trinervia Cav. The common calyx, antho- 



dium or periclinium, consists of four leaves, and 

 contains four florets, (87.) 



3. A single floret, the rim of which has five lobes. The 



stigma cleft. Syngenesia oequalis^ (137.) 



4. Racemus of Ottonia anisum.^ Neue Entdeck., i. s. 



255, (84.) 



5. A sinole floret of the same. At the base of the stalk, 



a fringed scale or bractea. No corolla. Four bi- 

 locular antherse. Spherical germen, with a four 

 cornered stigma, (86.) 



6. Crassula spathulata. The ovaria superior to the ca- 



lyx and corolla. These alternate with the filaments, 

 the latter parts with the petals, and these last with 

 the teeth of the calyx, (34, 196.) 



7. Schmidtia suhtilis Trattin. Two glume-valves en- 



close two hypogynous filaments with moveable an- 

 therac, a proportionately very large germen, and two 

 simple linear stigmata, (35, 40, 198«.) 



8. Capsules of Targiouia hypopJtylla.i surrounded by a 



notched ring, and furnished with catenula^ as they 

 had never before been observed. Its affinity with 



