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DICOTYLEDONES. 195

EXPLICATIO TABULiE— A.^

EuTREMA Edwardsii. — 1. Plaiita florida, et 17. fructi- fera ; utraque nia<];nitu{line naturali. Sequcntcs magiiitucline aucta3 ; 2. flos integer ; 3. petalum ; 4. flos petalis orljatus ; 6. sepaluni (foliolum calycis) ; C. stamina et pistilluni integumentis floralibus avulsis ; 7. stamen longius ; 8, sta- men brevius; 9. pollen ad augmentmn 200; 10. pistilluni receptaculo insidens a facie visum ; 11. idem duplo auctius ; 12. ejusdem portio transverse secta; 13. idem valvis avulsis ; 14. pistilluni a latere visum; 15. idem valvis avulsis; 16. placentae parietalis ])ortio cum ovulis ; 18. siliqiia matura deliiscens a facie visa; 19. siliqua matura clausaa latere visa; 20. eadeni valvis orbata; 21. eadem duplo auctius ; 22. semen ; 23. idem transverse sectum ; 24. idem longitudinaliter sectum ; 25. embryo.

PARRYA.

Char. Gen. Siliqua lato-linearis, valvis venosis. Semina biseriata, tesfce epidennicle laxo, corrugato. Cotyledones accumbentes. Stigmata approximata basibus connatis lccLxIx in stylum (brevissimum) decurrentibus. Filamenta eden- tula.

l^^x\>yd 2')erenneSy suhacaides. Folia radicalia intcfjcrrima V. dentata'y crassiuscida, opaca, venis immersis inconsjncuisy petiolorum hasihits dilatatis scariosis semivaginantihus. Scapi radicates, aphgtli, ehradeati. Flores jmrpurei. Calyx 67/^- patens. Glandulse hypogynae 4, flamenta longiora extus stipantes.

Obs. Affinitate proximum genus Arabidi, diversum sili- quarum figura, structiira seminum et stigmatis, et denique liabitu.

This Genus is named in honour of Captain Parry, the distinguished commander of the Expedition in which it was discovered, and whose herbarium contained very complete specimens of the species here described.

1 See Note at r>. 187.

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