
          Genève le 7 Janvier 1873


 My dear Sir,


 The fragment of the new Arkansas Phyllanthus
 is curious as an intermediate form between hanging
 and ascending ovules. The ovules appear ascending
 between of their micropylar part being more
 elongated than usually, or the rapheal part
 being shorter comparatively to the mircopylar (the 
 raphis is distinct), but the all ovule is fixed in
 the young state, much nearer the middle than 
 the base, and all this does not change the
 character of the order [quoad?] direction of
 micropyle and radicula, but it require a 
 modification in the terms upon form and fixation
        