BOTANICAL APHORISMS. 169 
‘The genus Rupala, fig. 115, has the filaments 
standing at the point of the foliola of the calyx. 
~ The genus Lacis, fig. 116, has neither calyx nor 
corolla, but a very simple flower, consisting of many 
stamina and one style. 
) Dimorpha, fg. 126, appears with a single petal, 
rolled up on the side. : 
~Dorstenia, fig. 122, has a common receptacle, set 
close with male flowers, | fig. 124, and with female 
flowers, fig. 125.5 and has a particular calyx. 
Sterculia, fig. 144. has a germen raised on a, long 
footstalk, that i is set with cee filaments. 
In the same manner are found the flowers of 
‘Periploca, Asclepias and Stapelia; fig. 88, 88, 89, 
90,91, 92, 28, 99, 100. Dhese are Aen ished with 
par ene organs which we have described with the 
Nectaria, and which quite cover the stamina with 
the style. The stamina are singularly formed, the 
filaments are attached like forks to a cartilaginous 
body, and bear at the tip of each an anthera, 
| Two genera are remarkable for the particular 
structure of the floral leaf, namely Ascium and 
Ruyschia, The for mer, re 117, has an ascidiform 
stipitate floral leaf, (bractea ascidiformis stipitata), 
which stands close behind the flower. The latter 
has an ascidiform sessile bractea, (bractea ascidiformis 
sessilis) furnished with two lobes, (bileba), which 
surround the flower behind, | 
These few instances are sufficient to shew that the 
flowers above-mentioned have a particular struc. 
ii are altog sether different from the common one, 
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