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 542 NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON INDIAN PLANTS.

specimen of which I am indebted to the Horticultural Society, another modification of inflorescence occurs. The peduncles in this species have but one flower, which is considered as one of the lateral flowers, the ovarium being- subtended by three bracts, placed exactly as in those of the corresponding flower of Abelia triflora.

Of the Natural Order Cajirifoliacea, the only certain genera appear to me to be, — Caprifolium, Xylosteum, Sym- phoricarpus, Linncea, Abelia, Diervilla (to which belongs Weigelia of Thunberg, who described the epigynous gland as the ovarium which he overlooked) Triosteum, and Ley- sesteria of Dr. Wallich. I am not acquainted, however, with any other character distinguishing them from the genera, which have hitherto been associated with them, except the very minute one of the raphe, or adnate portion of the funiculus umbilicalis being on the outer instead of the inner side of the ovulum. — Brown MSS.

i6] Matonia. (Brown MSS.)

Sori dorsales, rotundi, e puncto confluentiae venularuni plurium orti. Indusium orbiculatum, peltatum. Capsulce sessiles, in serie simplici circa receptaculum dispositae. — Brown.

Orclo Naturalis, Filices, tribus Polypodiaceoz. — Brown.

Habitus: Filix pulcherrima, laevis, fronde subbipinnata. Pinnae plures hinc superiores, pauciores inde secundae, omnes pinnatifidae, lobis integerrimis, singulis basi, nunc utroque latere, nunc inferiore tan turn monosoris, raro bisoris. — Brown I. c.

Matonia pectinata. Brown MSS.

Indusium depresso-sphaeroideum," capsulas omnino in- cludens, hemisphaerio superiore crassiusculo, inferiore tenu- issimo, membranaceo, capsulis arete applicito, et mox sub- evanido. Receptaculum parvum, paulo elevatum. Cap- suLiB annulo oblique verticali incompleto cinctae. Semina angulata. — Brow// MSS.

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