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mata 4, rarò 5, nunc 6 v. 8, loculis ovarii numero æqualibus alterna
adpnmùm connata, cuneifonnia, plana, truncata, leviter emarginata, crassa’
pruinosa, margine revoluta, basi connata. Capsula (è folliculis 4 v .5 , aiio^u)
lis interioribus connatis, petalisque oppositis composita,) 4-5-locularis,apice
torammibus totidem dehiscens, polysperma : valvis apice prominenti bus,
crustaceo-membranaceis. Dùsepimenta è duplici margine valvularum in-
troHexo constituta, crustaceo-membranacea. Placentæ duplicatæ, angustè
lineares, complanatæ, marginibus interioribus valvularum longitudinaliter
adnatæ, nunc demùm solutæ. Semina minuta, scobiformia, trigona, gilva •
testa exteriore membranaceà, laxà ; interiore subcrustaceà, fuscà : albumen
wpiosum, album, carnosum. Ifm ir /o minutus, in basi albuminis erectus
Kadicula brevissima, obtusa. D . Dan Mss.
I b is remarkable and hitherto little known plant is one of the many interesting
additions made to our collections by Mr. Anderson, the assiduous
JJotaiiist who accompanied our much esteemed friend Captain King in his
recent voyage of survey on the coasts o f South America. I t was raised at
tne Clapton Nursery, from seeds collected by Mr. Anderson near the port
ot ¡^n Carlos de Chiloe, where the plant had been originally discovered
by IJon Luis N e e , Naturalist to the Spanish expedition under the ill-fated
Malaspna, and from whose Herbarium the materials were derived on
■which Cavanilles founded the genus. Two other species, namely Francoa
wnchifoha and ramosa, described by me in the work above referred to
have also been recently introduced from seeds collected by Mr. Hugh
Cuming, in Chile. The former is very nearly related to the present species,
but the elongated caudex, and the rounded lobes o f the stigma, appear sufficient
to distinguish it. The plant appears to succeed w ell in the open border,
where its tall clusters o f rosy blossoms, marked with deepcrimson, render it a
conspicuous object. The Galadnæ, at present consisting of Galax, Francoa,
and I etilla, form asmall family intimately related to theSaxifraqeee, and peculiar
to America. The curious genus Tetilla has all the air o f a Saxifraga, and
agrees with^several species of that genus in the remarkable inequality of its petals.
M. De Candolle, who has referred this genus to the Saxifrageæ, has
overteoked the sterile stamens which are also present in it, and alternate with
the fertile ones, as in Francoa, which the same distinguished Botanist has
included among the Crassulaceoe. I t is chiefly distinguished from Francoa
by Its irregular calyx, and by the inequality of its petals. The sti°-mata
are two, and slightly cloven, but confluent at the base into a short style
and the ovarium (although I have only had an imperfectly developed spe)
cimen to examine) appears to consist of four cells, so that in the structure
ot these organs the genus does not materially difler from Francoa, which
M. Adrian de Jussieu, who was the first to point out the real affinities of
Tettila, IS. disposed to regard as the type of a family distinct from Galax;
but not having seen the paper o f that acute and learned Botanist on the
subject, I am ignorant o f the reasons which have led him to this conclusion.
In consequence o f the specimens which I had to examine being very incomplete,
several errors have unavoidably crept into my former description
of the genus, which are now corrected. The genus was named by Cava-
nilles after Don Francisco Franco, a Physician of Valentia, who flourished
at the commencement of the sixteenth century. H e was author of several
medical works, and an ardent cultivator and promoter o f the science of
Botany. The Francoa sonchifolia is the second species o f Molina’s genus
Panke, the other being Gunnera scabra, from which his generic character
has been principally derived. Every Botanist must rejoice at having the
science rid of such unnatural associations. In the unexpanded flower of
Francoa, the lobes of the stigma are connate, and in that state this organ
resembles very much the stigma o f Galax. D . Don Mss.
1. T h e d e ep ly 4 - c le ft ca ly x , with Its segments prominently 3-nerved. 2. P e ta l d e tached.
3. Th e 8 Stamens, ev ery other one opposite to th e petals, and the 4 alternate ones
passing b etween them, and laying free on th e c a ly x ; 8 scales placed between the Stamens,
which are sterile stamens. 4, The 4 S tyles fre e , but united at the top by a 4- lobed Stigma.
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