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tube. Style short, thick. Stigma orbicular, peltate, divid- 

 ed on the summit into six conical erect lobes. Anthers 

 sessile, regularly arranged in a circle below the stigma, six 

 in number each consisting of two lobes which are two-celled 

 and deeply furrowed along the middle. (As these are not 

 arranged by pairs, might they not with equal propriety be 

 considered as twelve distinct two-celled anthers.) Ovary 

 oblong, obtusely six-angled, six-celled, many-seeded. 



Obs, — This is a large and very beautiful species of Aris- 

 tolochia, remarkable for the size and form of its flowers. 

 The ventricle at the base is large and the narrow urn-like 

 tube rises upwards with a very graceful curve. In this 

 species the anthers might properly be considered as twelve 

 in number, each two-celled, as they are all arranged at 

 equal distances round the stigma^ and it seems questionable 

 whether the genus itself ought not to be referred to Dode- 

 candria in place of Hexandria, The arrangement of the 

 anthers by pairs in the other species does not appear to 

 necessitate the supposition of a deviation from the usual 

 structure in ascribing to them four parallel cells in place of 

 the more usual number of two, nor does the analogy of other 

 cognate genera furnish any thing opposed to the inference 

 so strongly suggested by the present species. 



LV. RAFFLESIACEiE. 



RAFFLESIA.* (W, J.) 

 Dioscia Gynandria. 

 Perianthium monophyllum ventricoso-campanulatum, fauce 

 coarctata nectario annulari incumbente coronata, limbo 5- 

 partito subreflexo, laciniis rotundatis ; Columna fructifica- 



R. Br. Linn. Trans. 13 p. 201. 



