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* PHYSIANTHUS albens. 
White Bladderbloom. 
er” 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Asciertapes, R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 210.) 
PHYSIANTHUS Martius. Corolla campanulata, tubo inflato-ventri- 
coso, limbo 5-fido connivente. Columna fructificationis inclusa. Corona 
staminea inclusa, 5-phylla, foliolis tubo stamineo insertis, deinde corolle adnatis, 
sursum liberis cucullatis. Anthere membraná terminate. Pollinis masse 10, 
ceraceg, compresso-clavate, in cruribus retinaculi deflexis pendule. Stigma bi- 
apiculatum, Semina comosa. Martius nov. g. et sp. 1. p. 53. 
Ph. albens ; herbacea, volubilis, foliis oppositis integerrimis acutis basi cordato- 
truncatis subtüs albo pruinosis, floribus subdichotomo-cymosis. Martius 
l. c. t. 32. Graham in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. Oct. 1832. Bot. 
Mag. 3201. . 
Corolla alba, coriacea, campanulata ; limbo patulo, laciniis ovatis un- 
dulatis medio roseo penicillatis ; tubo basi ventricoso. Corona staminea ¿má 
basi corolle inclusa ; appendiculis 5, ovatis, carnosis, extrorsim cucullatis, 
inflexis, staminibus oppositis. Stamina connata in conum pistillum circum- 
dantem ; antherarum loculis sagittatis, staminei coloris. Pollinia pendula, 
glandulá nigrá. Stigma globosum, apice bicorne. Squame hypogyne O. 
We received a specimen of this rare plant in August 
last from Mr. Blair, gardener to Miss Martineau, as a native 
of Mexico. Upon comparing it, however, with the figure of 
Physianthus albens, given by von Martius from specimens 
collected by him in the woods of Ypanema in the Province 
of St. Pauls, and with the plate in the Botanical Magazine 
of the same plant from Buenos Ayres, we are obliged to con- 
clude either that there has been some mistake with regard 
* Literally bladder-flower, in allusion to the inflated corolla, 
