‘olla, single stamen, anther with two lobes, and seeds hav= 
ing a vitellus, a multiform variable viscus of far less fre- 
quent occurrence than any of the others which belong to 
seeds ; usually situated between the rudinient of the future 
plant and the albumen, from which, however, as well as 
the cotyledon, Mr. Brown thinks with Gertner, that it is 
essentially distinct, notwithstanding the contrary opinion of 
some others, That of the Cannee, which agrees in most points 
with the preceding, he has distinguished by an anther with 
one lobe only, a seed without the vitedlus, and by the want 
of aroma, or by that which they have being very feeble. 
Mr. Edwards was favoured with the specimen from 
which the drawing was taken by Lord Caernarvon, who 
had the kindness to send it from his seat at Highclere in 
Hampshire, in June last. As we had no opportunity of 
seeing the blossom after the drawing was made, we shall 
not attempt its description. 
The species was introduced in 1804, by Mr. Aylmer 
Bourke Lambert, from the East Indies, where it had been 
discovered by Dr. William Roxburgh. Like the whole 
order it requires to be kept in the hot-house; and is propa» 
gated by parting the root. 
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a The pistil. 6 Stamens. 
