genus with that: the nature of their anthers seems too 
distinct, as well as the consistence of their corollas and 
shape of their pistillums. Having neglected to dissect the 
germen in Tupistra, we can say nothing as to their agree- 
ment. in respect to that organ. 
We have ranked Asprpistra in the above natural order, 
not knowing any more suitable place for it; though it 
does not agree yery exactly with the definition of the As- 
phodelee of Mr. Brown. Perhaps Tupisrra, Asprpisrra, 
and Orontium japonicum (erroneously combined with aqua- 
ticum), may lay the foundation of a distinct natural order ; 
to which SANSEVIERA carnea seems also to approach. 
The drawing was made in the hothouse of Messrs. 
Colyill, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where the plant is 
presumed to be native of some tropical country ; but of the 
place whence or the time when introduced nothing seems 
known that can be relied upon, nor have we met with any 
sample in either the Banksian or Lambertian Herbariums. 
The pistillum reminds us of a Mushroom in miniature. 
The stamens are eight, and the cells of the germen four ; 
but an examination of other samples may very likely 
prove the more natural number of the former to be six, and 
of the latter three. The six faintly raised plaitlike radii 
on the surface of the convex stigma are probably produced 
by the pressure of the seams of the divisions of the limb of 
the corolla in the bud state. The obsoletely 4-rayed cica- 
trix in the centre of the stigma seems to announce some 
duct that may correspond: with the decided hollow of the 
same organ in our Turisrra squalida. The anthers are con- 
cealed by the large umbrella-shaped stigma, which nearly 
fills up the mouth of the urceolate tube of the corolla. The 
pollen is of a deep yellow, pulverous, considerable in quan- 
tity, the particles minute and globular. The flower, which 
reclines upon the ground, is of a dingy broken brownish 
purple on the outside and smooth, but of a uniform deep 
violet-purple and irregularly shagreened on the inside, ex- 
cept at the bottom, where it is yellowish with purple spots 
and even. . 
The uncoloured outline in the plate exhibits the tubular 
portion of the corolla opened longitudinally on one side, to 
show the pistillum and stamens in their natural positions. 
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