between those species are greater than are often found 
between distinct genera. Without taking into account the 
very singular nature of the fructification of N. multivalvis, it 
may, when growing, be known by its larger flowers and 
more hircose smell, and by the longer stalks and more 
tapering outline of its leaves. The calyx and corolla are 
influenced by a permanent predisposition to produce a 
greater number of divisions than the type of Nicotiana; 
and in the capsule this is increased still further. Inde- 
pendently of the two confluent ovaria of which the normal 
form of Nicotiana consists, we have in this species an 
addition to the circumference of an indeterminate number of 
other ovaria, irregularly arranged round those in the centre, 
and forming one mass with them. This mode of structure, 
although leading to a suspicion that it is only an accidental 
monstrosity, like the well-known multiplication of lobes in 
the Shaddock, is certainly a permanent characteristic of 
the species. We have not only found it uniformly prevailing 
in the whole of a considerable number of plants raised 
from Mr. Douglas’s seeds, but also in all the wild speci- 
mens which have been received from him. In fact, it is a 
multiplication of ovaria, such as may be expected to occur 
in any genus with a definite number of those organs, and 
is absolutely analogous to the arrangement of ovaria in 
Nolana paradoxa. In that instance, such strong doubts 
were entertained of the accuracy of our statement by one 
of our friends, a most respectable Botanist, that having 
mistaken for Nolana paradoxa a different species, in which 
the regular structure of the genus prevails, he inferred that 
we had been confounding a casual monster with a legiti-. 
mate species! We hope that we shall be saved from such 
an imputation in this case at least. 
Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, in September 1826. The species is a hardy 
handsome annual, but intolerably offensive, on account of 
its powerful hircose odour. | 
J. da 
