PELTANDKA. 
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In Carolina, not well described, but very near 
P, latifolia , said to be larger than P. hastata 
with similar flowers. 
8. Peltandiia angustifolia Raf. Calla Yir- 
ginica Yar. Michaux. Leaves hastate cordate 
narrow oblong, lobes obtuse, spatha elongate 
incurved — Virginia &c, in this sp. Michaux 
has blended probably the sp. 1, 2 aud 4, but the 
narrow leaves and incurved spatha indicate a 
peculiar species. 
MONOGRAPH OF LECHEA. 
AND THE SUBGENERA MENANDRA, EUDIEXA fyc* 
Linneus had only two sp. of Lechea , having 
reduced to that Genus the Menandra of Gro- 
vonius. His L. minor and major figured in 
Amer. Acad. 3. tab. 1. have been applied at 
random by nearly all the botanists to any other 
Species, till Michaux who added 3 sp. and 
Wildenow L . verticillata of India, which I 
doubt to be of this Genus, as it appears to be 
strictly North American. I shall now increase 
it to 21 sp. and divide it into 3 subgenera that 
might perhaps become as many Genera. 
The essential characters of this Genus were 
also widely mistaken. Linneus put it into tri- 
andria trigynia, altho’ the stamens vary from 3 
to 12, and there are not 3 styles, but a single 
trilobe sessile plumose stigma ! The Capsule 
is not one seeded as stated by most of Authors,, 
unless sometimes by abortion ; but it has 3 or 
b seeds : nor is that capsule Slocular nor with 
double valves as stated by others, it is strictly 
unilocular, with 3 free placentas mistaken for 
valves, or partitions. The calix is not single 
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