slightly reflexed. Vesdllum very broad, rounded, with a slight
notch in the summit, and a long slender unguis, yellow, with a
reddish purple crescent near the base, that is divided through the
middle by a purple mark : from the crescent run numerous faint
lines to the margin in all directions. Alas or wings spathulate,
eared above the base, the ears half the length of the slender unguis,
yellow, tinged with red. Keel a little longer than the wings,
notched at the point, obtuse, also eared at the base, with long
slender unguis. Stamens 10, all connected at the bottom, with a
slit on the upper side : filaments free above half their length,
ascending, attached to the back of the anthers: pollen pale yellow.
Ovarium on a long footstalk, flat, falcate, smooth, purple.
Style smooth, ascending. Stigma small, flat.
Our drawing of this pretty plant was made in April last, at
the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham,
where it was raised from seed sent to them from New South
Wales, by Mr. Charles Frazer; it is a very free flowering plant,
and makes a handsome appearance when covered with bloom;
fine specimens of it are preserved in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium,
who received them from Sieber, so that we have ascertained it
to be the plant of Decandolle; whether his B. rotundifolia be
really different or not, we cannot pretend to say at present, as
the specimens vary so much in the form of their leaves, some
of them agreeing very well with the description of both.
It is a hardy Greenhouse plant, requiring only protection
from frost, and. would be a handsome plant for the front of a
Conservatory. It succeeds well in an equal mixture of light
turfy loam, peat, and sand; and young cuttings, planted under
bell-glasses, and placed in a shady part of the Greenhouse, will
strike root.
The genus was named by Ventenat, after Bossieu-Lamarti-
nikre, a French Naturalist.
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