are produced from all parts of the stem or branches from 
between the leaves, and serve as aboveground stays or 
props, adhering where requisite to the smoothest surface 
by the same process that holds the misletoe to the oak and 
the sea-weed to the rock. 
According to the character of this division of the order, 
the anther should be deciduous ; but Mr. Lindley has cha- 
racterized it as permanent; and it is true, that in our 
hothouses we have never seen it spontaneously removed at 
any stage of the existence of the flower from the bud state 
to its decay. By a slight pressure, however, from the point 
of a needle it falls off entire, while the pollen-masses, 
by means of the remarkable process which supports them, 
start with considerable elasticity from their places; and we 
suspect that in the native country of the plant the anther 
is spontaneously deciduous, and not of the nature of that 
intended by Mr. Brown by a permanent anther. We do 
not mean to imply, by this remark, that such removal is in 
any way necessary for the due access of the pollen-masses 
to any portion of the pistil. 
In terming the pollen-masses entire (integre), if Mr. 
Lindley means, that they are without division or incision, 
he is certainly mistaken, for each is scored or cut round 
into two unequal lobes or segments of its orb, and in that. 
respect comes directly within the definition of the character 
attributed to the genus by Mr. Brown. 
Mr. Lindley speaks of the germen being twisted ; to us 
it appeared straight, as in the Vanpa paniculata of this 
publication, to which it comes near in many respects. 
