ï f e ' v f « “&c™staceo-membranaceis. P la c e n tæ duplicatæ, mardèmùm
soteî F«g-f>d'naliter adnatæ, lineari-angustissimæ,
demùm solutæ. S em in a subfusiformia, hmc convexa, Inde planiuscula
brevissimis inserta, horizontaliter assurgentia!
Raised by Mr. Anderson, from seeds collected at Conception,
in Chile, by an officer, attached to the expedition
of our friend Captain King; and the plant whence
our figure was derived, blossomed at the Chelsea Botanic
Carden, m August last. It is perennial, and succeeds
well in the open border, during the Summer months, but
requires the protection of a frame, or hand-glass, in Winter
; a light soil appears to suit it best, and it is readily in-
ci eased by seeds It is distinguished from F. appendiculala,
already given at Tab. 151, of this Work, by several important
marks. The caudex rises to a foot, or a‘ foot and a half •
the leaves are decurrent at their base ; the segments of thé
calyx are broader, and less pointed than in the latter ; the
petals smaller, and incurved at the edges; and the stigmas
elliptical, and perfectly entire.
Our former description of this species having been drawn
up from rather slender materials, it is, therefore, gratinino-
to have an opportunity of giving a more complete illustration
of a plant, which although faithfully represented by the
accurate Feuillee, has been involved in much obscurity. I
take this opportunity, also, of giving the following corrected
character of Fi-ancoa r « « .— segmentis calycinis ovato-
lanceolatis acutis læviusculis, staminibus sterilibus obtusis,
stigmatibus cuneatis bilobis, scapo ramoso.
The radical leaves in this last, which ray former specimens
vvanted, are sessile, lyrate, and clothed on both sides
with adpressed hairs. The stem, which is as much entitled
to be regarded as a scape, as that of F. appendiculala, is much
branched and is either glabrous, or pilose ; the flowers are
puie white, and the segments of the calyx less distinctly
nerved than in the other species, and the point is more or less
eloi^ated. I have not referred to the description and figure,
by M. Adrien de Jussieu, m the “ Annales des Sciences
Waturelles, because they evidently do not belong to the
present species, but to F. appendiculala.
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1. Calyx. 2 . P eta ls. 3. Stamens and P istil. 4. Capsule.
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