hairs and fringed, persistent. Petals 5, inserted in the base
of the calyx, ascending so as the flower to form a cup or
bowl, shortly unguiculate and concave near the base, which
forms a short blunt spur, terminated in a broad rounded
point, or sometimes slightly emarginate, pubescent outside.
Scales 5, petal-like and alternate with the petals, also
shortly unguiculate and hollowed out like a spur near the
base, peltate at the point, six-lobed, of a bright glossy purple,
terminated in three horns, resembling barren filaments,
with spatulate points. Stamens numerous: 10 sterile
ones, flat, attenuated to the point and curved inwards, glandularly
pubescent, 2 inserted in the base of each of the
scales, one on each side: fe r tile ones in 5 sets, opposite to
the petals, and enclosed in their hollow cavities before the
anthers burst, they then spring forward and enclose the
style: anthers tvio-\dbeA, bursting longitudinally: jOoZ/ew
straw-coloured. Style simple, 3-sided. Capsule long and
slender, bursting into three valves at the point, many-seeded.
Seeds brown, oval, rugged.
The present beautiful flowering plant is a native of Chili,
and is generally considered in our collections as the Loasa
vohchilis of Jussieu ; but we have examined a specimen of
that plant in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, that was received
from Jussieu himself; in that the capsule is short and turbinate,
and does not belong to the same genus as the present
plant.
Our drawing was made from a plant in the collection of
H. B. Ker, Esq. of the Regent’s Park, who raised it from
seeds received from the Horticultural Society, who we believe
first introduced it. It may be treated as a half hardy
annual, to be sown on a hotbed or in the Greenhouse, and
from thence to be planted in the flower-borders, and will
probably prove a perennial if covered in frosty weather, or
placed in the Greenhouse.
We have derived the generic name from aKv<j>og, a cup
or bowl, and avOot;, a flower, from the form of its flowers.
1. Calyx, witli a portion o f the capsule attached to it. 2. Two o f the Pe tals,
front and back view. 3. Two o f the Scales that are alternate with the petals,
front and side view, showing the two sterile Stamens at the base o f each.
4 . Tlie two barren Stamens, with the upper part o f the scale detached from
them. 5 / The fertile Stamens, the petals taken from them. 6. The 3-sided
simple Style. 7. Capsule, terminated with the calyx, the upper part o f the
segments taken off. 8. Seed.
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