b 



entire; at first imperceptible and concealed by the superin- 

 cumbent anthers; upon their disruption developing itself 



increase of bulk, prominence, and supervening pu- 

 bescence. Capsule obovate, bilocular, pubescent, opening 

 vertically: seeds numerous, small, roundish, fixed at the axis 

 of a partition parallel with the valves. 



Introduced by Mr. P. Good in 1803. A greenhouse 

 plant, flowering most part of the summer. The drawing 

 was made last year at the nursery of Messrs. Lee and 

 Kennedy, Hammersmith, the 



met with the species. 



only place where we have 



a Three bractes of two kinds. 



b The germen. c The calyx, d The la- 



bellum or fifth segment of the limb of the corolla, e One of the two small 

 linear appendicles at its base. ./The shaft of the column, g The stigma and 

 incumbent anthers, h The bifid teethlike lobules that line the orifice of the 







tube, i The stigma, after the anthers have exploded ; magnified. 





