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inequalissime, 3 imis maximis corniformibus arcuatis-parallelis corolld pauls 
-brevioribus: in hermaph. param inequales, corolla 3-plo ferée breviores. 
Stylus virens, arcuato-declinatus, altitudine feré corolla.- Flos masculus 
nondim expansus refert papilionaceum non apertum. .  — — 
The Soldnums have recently given occasion to a valuable 
monégraph,. in. which, more;than 200 species are displayed : 
avlarge proportion of which hasbeen supplied by South, 
América, The author is Monsieur Dunal, a pupil of the — 
celebrated Professor dé Candolle. Considerable pains ap- 
pear to have been bestowed on an analytical arrangement of 
the species, the best defence we have against an inundation. 
of new gencric names, A supplement is announced, and is, 
to-contain many more figures than: are in the former part. 
This had been already communicated in: manuscript to 
Monsieur Poiret, who has introduced the substance into a 
late volume of the supplement to Lamarck’s Encyclopedia. 
We haye not, however, been able to discover our plant in 
any specics. It agrees in part with éridynamum ; hie tthe 
stem im that-is described as herbaceous and, prickly, and no 
mention is made of the species being polygamous, nor of 
any ‘difference between the barren and the fertile calyx. 
“Th the last points our plant coincides with polygamum, but 
there again the barren flowers are not tridynamous, viz. with 
three anthers large, the others small. KP i 
Amazonium would Rave ranged under Nycrerium, but 
that genus has been reduced to. Soranum by Monsieur Dunal. ~ 
The: species is ‘shrubby, flexuose, dichotomously. branched, 
clothed by a close short pile of stellately pencilled stipitate 
hairs; ‘arid has Wot, we believe, exceeded four feet in height 
with us. Racemes numerous, many-flowered, placed be- 
tween the leaves, so as» to be. alternate with. these as 
well’ ‘as Opposite’ tothém); at first revolute, as im Hxrto- 
rropium. flowers ‘pointing one way, nearly two inches 
across, of a bright violet, blue, with a, yellow 5-rayed star, 
answering to a tomentose‘one of as many rays on. the out- 
side: tle primary one of each bunch fertile, with a ‘calyx 
armed with prickles ‘and ‘stowing with the germen of 
the future berry, as that grows: the.others barren, and we 
‘may observe, -that as no offspring is ‘confided to their) care, 
so no arms have béen bestowed on them, and ‘they fall 
when the flower falls. The corolla of both flowers is 
jrregular, but that of the barren one more conspicuously 
so, the'angles or segments being separated by much deeper 
