style when magnified pubescent, about equal to the germen: 



calyx sitting close to the lower part of the corolla, with a 

 remarkable concave or dinted base; leaves about the third 

 of an inch wide at most. The boundaries of the genus have 

 been as yet but incompletely defined, and require revision. 



The Lipauia hir&uta of Moench's work, above quoted, 

 is a very different species, but not Borbonia trlnervia of 

 Bergius, as he presumes. This flowered at Kew in 1794, and 

 was deposited along with a spontaneous Cape specimen in 

 the Banksian Herbarium, by the same title that Mcench has 



it; but was not recorded in the late edition of 

 the Hortus Kcwensis ; the Liparta hirsute of which is 

 Thunbcrg s and the present plant. So that a new name re- 



in ven 



mains to be adopted for Moench's species, which is not yet 

 published in any other work known to us than his own. 



Our plant has a forked stigma, a calyx that does not 

 answer to that of its generic character, nor are three of the 

 anthers more shortly stipitate than the others; but still we 



believe it to be a good LlPARlA. 



The drawing was made 

 from a fine plant that flowered last January, at the nursery 



of Messrs. Whitley, Brame, Milne, and Co. Parson's Green, 

 Fulham: where it had been raised from seed. 



a Calyx with the pedicle attached, b The simple and the nine-parted 

 stamen, c The pistil, d The forked stigma, magnified, e One of the two 

 alae or wines of the flower. 











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