opening lengthways. Ovarium ovate, angular, bilocular,
surrounded at the base by a slightly lobed, fleshy ring.
% /e clavate, slightly compressed, glabrous, attenuated at the
base. Stigma compressed, blunt, slightly 2-lobed, viscid,
the lobes connate, revolute at the margin. Capsule rounded,
ovate, bilocular, with five prominent ribs. Placentce 2, fungous,
pitted, attached to the partition. Seeds when mature,
few in each cell, round, rough, with elevated dots.
Testa brown, crustaceous. Albumen copious, fleshy, white.
Embryo small, slightly curved.
A native of sandy plains near the banks of the Parana,
where it was discovered by Mr. Tweedie, and from seeds
transmitted by that enterprising collector, in 1832, to our
highly valued friend, Mr. Neill, a single individual, was
raised in the collection at Canonmills, where our drawing
was taken in September last. As the plant is found to produce
seeds much more freely than the other species, and to
be readily increased by cuttings, we hope soon to see it a
common ornament of the flower border, to which its graceful
habit, and successive profusion of blossoms of the deepest
purple, shaded partly with brown, and of a rich velvetty
hue, cannot fail to render it a most welcome addition. It
appears to be quite as hardy as the phcenicia, given in the
preceding volume, and is found to thrive best in a mixture
of peat and river sand.
For the explanation of the generic name, see folio 172.
D. Don.
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