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straight to the extremity, where, meeting the carina, they terminate 
obtusely. 
3. Stamina , the filaments, of two different forms—a lower one that 
involves the pistillum, and an upper one incumbent upon it; the 
former, from the middle downwards, is cylindraceous, membranaceous, 
and split lengthways on its upper side: but the upper half terminates 
in nine subulate parts, that are of the same length with and follow 
the flexure of the carina of the corolla, and of which the intermediate 
or lower radii are longer by alternate pairs; the upper filament is subu¬ 
late-setose, covering the splitting of the cylindraceous filament incum¬ 
bent upon it, answering to it in situation, simple, and gradually 
shorter; its base is detached from the rest, and prepares an outlet for 
the honey on each side. The antliera, reckoned altogether, are ten; 
one on the upper filament, and nine on the lower, each of the radii 
being furnished with a single one; they are small, all of one size, and 
terminate the radii. 
4. Pistillum, single, growing out of the receptacle within the calyx; 
the germen oblong, roundish, lightly compressed, straight, of the length 
of the cylinder of the lower filament which involves it; the style subu¬ 
late, filiform, ascending, having the same length and position as the 
radii of the filament, among which it is placed and withering; the 
stigma downy, of the length of the style from the part turned upwards, 
and placed immediately under the anthera. 
5. Pericarpinm, a legumen, oblong, compressed, obtuse, bivalved, 
with a longitudinal suture both above and below; each suture straight, 
though the upper one falls near the base, and the lower one rises near 
the top, and opens at the upper suture. 
6. Semina, a few roundish, smooth, fleshy, pendulous, marked with 
an embiso that is a little prominent towards the points of insertion. 
7- Recepiaculum , the proper receptacle of the seeds, which are very 
small, very short, thinner towards the base, obtuse at the disk that 
fastens them, oblong, inserted longitudinally in the upper suture of the 
legumen only, but placed alternate, so that when the valves have 
been parted they adhere alternately to each valve. Orders four, viz.: 
Pentandria ; Monnieria trifolia . 
Hexandria; Corydalis solida. 
Octandria ; Poly gala myrtifolia. 
Decandria ; Templetonia retusa. 
(To be continued.) 
