cence, the throat wide, ventricose, and whitish beneath, and
marked with several violet-coloured bands ; the limb spreading,
bilabiate, with 5 broad, rounded, sharply and unequallv
serrated lobes, imbricate in aestivation ; the upper two rather
narrower, lateral pair reflexed ; lower one larger, somewhat
reniform, stretched out. Stamens 4, fertile, didynamous, or
rare y 5. Inlaments white, closely united to the tube of the
corolla bearded at the base with short glandular hairs. Anthers
bilocular, pale blue, smooth, the cells opening length-
ways, cohering with the pair of the opposite anthers, distinct
at the top, attached to the edge of the broad apex of the
connectivum, which is long, filiform, arched, smooth, that of
the longer pair of stamens furnished at the base with a broad
bisk-like, slightly reniform a¡)pendage. Ovarium ovate, bil
iocular surrounded by a cup-shaped, entire, fleshy, yellow
disk, btyle slightly compressed, smooth. Stigma s¿arcelv
exserted, composed of two, flat, blunt, finally revolute lobe.s
minutely papillose above, the lower one larger. Capsule
rounded-ovate, crustaceous, smooth, and shining, bilocular
with a broad, transverse, fixed partition, and having the whole
cavity of the cells filled up by two large, fleshy, succulent placentae.
beeds very numerous, closely arranged in a sinole
stratum over the broad placentae, obovate, rough, brovvn
with a prominent hilum.
A native o f the banks of the river Brisbane, a t Moreton B ay , New
to thp'^Fn ' l VF® by the late Mr. Charles Fra se r,
to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where the plan t blossomed in 1831 My
desciibed, has been led to refer it to Torenia, regarding it a t the time as
w F E Z ’fin d ‘ '» "/> P l"'» " ^h ich he shortly afterwards abandoned.
N o v t f í ^ I n l his valuable Prodromus Floree
A d I® F® ““ y senus with which it can well be
s^sociated ; we have, therefore, ventured to propose it as the type of a new
n a r tp T " T '‘^ " t5 F ®®®®‘'tia lly distinguished from Torenia b y its deeply
stamen h F r ®F®‘®‘' '®'’®" h j the strifcture of its
sucFd t F 7™ ‘»»"®’®teuce of its capsule, and finally, by its large
ucculent p lá c e n te—characters so obvious and important, th a t I could wish
t i r y 7ronnd°s “ de»- were established on equally satisfac-
Akthongh usually treated as a greenhouse plant, it will he found to suc-
cee< very well in the open border during the Summer months, producing
s blossoms and ripening I t s seeds freely. I t should be planted in a mix-
tu ie of peat and loam, and is increased by seeds, or by cuttings • b u t the
", 7 P'®^®‘F ‘'- ‘he ’aspect of
c n l l lp t ln f 'F 'r® * i® ‘' h'®*" p'»»"t which blossomed in Mr. N e ill’s
collection, a t Canonmills, near Edinburgh, in September last.
le generic name is compounded of apraw, to append, and vt¡ya. ¡, fija.
" »»tended to designate the peculiar structure of the stamens.
3. '““erlion of the Stamens. 2. Pistil.
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