describe their plants as tetrandrous; those which we 
examined were certainly. triandrous. 
Plate A represents the lower part of the stem, and 
the flowers of the natural size. Plate B exhibits a di- 
minished figure of the plant, together with dissections of 
the male flowers; of these the upper left figure is the 
head of flowers; that beneath it is a single floret torn 
open, shewing the position of the stamens and rudiment ; 
the upper right figure is that of several male florets in their 
natural position; the lower on the same side are a stamen 
and the rudiment of the ovarium. 
The brief description given by Dr. Blume of his Cono- 
cephalus suaveolens is not sufficient to distinguish that 
species from the present; it is probable, however, that it 
is a different plant. 
J. L. 
