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joined by their back to the filaments, Ovarmm ovate,
smooth, the lower part immersed in the thickened upper
part of the pedicle. Style smooth, purple, much shorter than
the stamens. Stigma blunt, slightly two-lobed.
Our drawing of this beautiM plant was made from fine
specimens sent us from the collection of Robert Barclay,
Esq. of Bury H ill; it is a native of the Gape of Good Hope,
and the first time we ever heard of it was in 1823, at the
Nursery of Messrs. Rollison, at Tooting, who had raised it
from seed received from the Cape, and which, we believe,
was the first time of its introduction to this country: its roots
creep under ground, and throw up shoots similar to Mint,
so that it is readily increased ; it will also sometimes ripen
its seeds; the best situation for it is a sheltered border in a
southern aspect, and in severe weather it will need some
slight covering, that its roots may not be destroyed by the
frost; the protection of a mat, or any other slight covering,
will lae sufficient, or some plants of it may be kept in small
pots in the frames through the Winter, and turned out in
the borders in Spring ; they will then flower the latter end
of Summer and Autumn, continuing to bloom a considerable
time.D
r. Hooker has published the present plant as Lysimá-
chia atropurpúrea, to which it is not in the least related,
according to the figure in Flora Grseca, that being a tall,
slender, upright plant, with a long spike of small rose-coloured
flowers, nearly related to L. diibia, which is also there
figured; they will most probably, with L. Ephémerum, be
hereafter constructed into a genus distinct from Lysimáchia,
which is at present a very polymorphous one.
The genus was named by Commerson in compliment to
M. de St. Lubin, a French officer, who travelled in the East
Indies.
J . Calyx. 2. Corolla spread open, showing its inside, and the insertion of the 5 Stamens
at the base of the segments of the limb. 3. Ovarium detached from the upper part
of the pedicle in which it is half included, terminated by the Style and slightly two-lobed