Belongs to the greenhouse, where it flowers in May. 
The following critical view of the order is borrowed 
from Mr. Brown. 
“ Stylidee. This order, consisting of SrytipIuM, LEVENHOOKIA, and — 
ForsTERA, I have formerly separated from Campanulacee, on account of 
its reduced number of stamina, and the remarkable and intimate cohesion of — 
their filaments with the style, through the whole length of both organs, It 
differs also both from Campanulacee and Goodenovie in the imbricate esti- 
vation of the corolla, and where its segments are unequal.in the nature of the 
irregularity. In the relation which the parts of its flower haye to the axis of 
the inflorescence, and in the parallel septum of its capsule, it agrees with 
Goodenovie and differs from LoBELIA, which, however, in some other 
respects it more nearly resembles.” 
« Very different descriptions of the stamens and pistil in this tribe, and 
especially of the latter, have been given by several French botanists. Ac- 
cording to Richard the lateral appendices of the labellum in StyLiprum are 
the real stigmata, the style being consequently considered as cohering with the _ 
tube of the corolla, and the column as consisting of stamina only. This view 
of the structure demands particular notice, not only from the respect to which _ 
its author is himself entitled, but because it has also been adopted by Jussieu, _ 
whose arguments in support of it, and against the common opinion, may be 
reduced to three. Ist, Were the common opinion admitted, the difficulty of 
conceiving so wide a difference in what he terms insertion of Stamina, in two 
orders so nearly related as Campanulacee and Stylidee obviously are: 2dly. 
The alleged non-existence of the stigma, which preceding authors had 
described as terminating the column: and lastly the manifest existence of 
another part, which, both from its appearance and supposed origin, is con- 
sidered as capable of performing the function of that organ.” 
«In opposition to these arguments it may be observed, that the real origin 
of the Stamina is in both orders'the same, the apparent difference arising 
simply from their accretion to the style in Stylidee, a tendency to which 
may be said to exist in Loprnia. The inability to detect the Stigma ter- 
minating the column in StyL1DIuM must have arisen from the imperfection of 
the specimens examined, for in the recent state, in which this organ is even 
more obvious than in Goodenovie at the time of bursting of the antherz, 
_ it could not have escaped so accurate an observer as Richard; and were it 
even less manifest in StyLipIuM, its existence would be sufficiently con- 
firmed from the strict analogy of that genus with LEVENHOOKIA, whose 
stigma, also terminating the column, consists of two long capillary lacinix, 
which are in no stage concealed by the anthera.” % 
«‘ With respect to the part considered as Stigma by Richard, I have for- — 
merly observed that it is obsolete in some species of StyLiDIUM, and en-— 
tirely wanting in others, and there is certainly no trace of any thing analogous 
io itin FORSTERA.” ae 
«« The greater part of the Australian Stylidee exist at the western extre- 
mity of the principal parallel, several species are found at the Eastern extre- 
mity of the same parallel, and a few others occur both within the tropic and in 
Van Diemen’s sland. Beyond Terra Australis very few plants of this order 
have been observed; two species of STYLIDIUM, very similar to certain in- 
tratropical species of New Holland, were found in Ceylon and Malacca by 
Keenig; and of the only two known species of FoRSTERA, one is a native of 
New Zealand, the other of Tierra del Fuego, and the opposite coast of Pata- 
gonia.” Brown gen. rem. in append. to Flind. voy. 2. 561, CARES 
