to have been known for some time in the collections of 
France, Gerinany, and Italy. Its historians are not, how- 
ever, unanimous concerning the place of its origin; some 
state it to be from the Isle of France, others from South 
America. Mr. Anderson, who. superintends the Apo- 
thecaries' garden at Chelsea, informs us, that it was first 
raised in this country by himself from seed received from a 
'garden in Germany. ' 
A branching upright shrub, reaching with us the height 
of five or six feet, clothed by a shaggy viscid pubescence 
intermixed with scattered spines, more numerous at the 
merves of the foliage; when smelled near of a disagreeable 
odour, somewhat like that of weeds from a muddy pond; 
a smell we have perceived also in the flower of Irriciuw 
Foridanum. Leaves 6 inches or more in length, oblong, 
sinuately pinnatifid, lateral lobes repandly dentate or entire, 
terminal lobe largest angular ovate, and cut into lobules: 
petioles half stem-embracing, decurrent. Racemes terminal 
and lateral, half a foot long, many-flowered with flowers 
pointing the same way in two ranks, from revolute straight- 
ening as the bloom evolves itself in succession; two or three 
primary flowers fertile, the others sterile, having an incom- 
plete pistil. Calyx stellately campanulate, viscidly pubes- 
cent within and without, armed in the fertile flower. Corolla 
white, glittering, and subdiaphanous, regular, about an inch 
and half across. Stamens equal, nearly three times shorter 
than the corolla: anthers twice longer than the filaments. 
Style clavately filiform; stigma oblong, ovate, green, sub- 
didymously lobed. Berry of an orange-colour, about the 
size of a cherry, said to be eatable, 
, The drawing was made in the fine collection at Mr. 
Vere's, Kensingtón Gore; where it is kept in the bark-bed 
of the stove. Jacquin speaks of it as a greenhouse plant. 
. e Thecalyx. 5 The stamens, thi lla is dis« 
ected and unlgided. c The pati ^ ay PPPear when the corolla is 
