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* BESSERA elegans. 
Elegant Bessera. 
MONADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LILIACER,. 
BESSERA. Schultes fil. Umbella. Perianthium pendulum, campanu- 
latum, hexapetaloideum, zquale. Stamina basi in urceolum epipetalum con- 
nata, zequalia, regularia, exserta. Ovarium sessile, loculis polyspermis ; ovulis 
ascendentibus ; stigma obsoleté trilobum, pubescens. [Capsula erecta, perian- 
thio stipata, septicido-trivalvis. Semina compressa, testa membranaceá atrá. ] 
B. elegans ; urceolo stamineo inter stamina unidentato, filamentis pubescentibus 
styli longitudine. 
This charming plant was originally found by Count 
Karwinsky at Saltepec in Mexico; 1t was first sent to this 
country by John Parkinson, Esq. H. B. M.'s Consul in 
Mexico, and from a specimen in the possession of John 
Rogers, Esq. Jun. of Sevenoaks, the accompanying drawing 
was made. Recently a large packet of what is believed to 
be it has been received by the Horticultural Society from 
Mr. Hartweg. 
A second species has already been published by Mr. Her- 
bert in this work in the year 1832, under the name of Pharium 
fistulosum (fol. 1546), but the latter generic name must give 
way to that of Bessera, which dates from January, 1829. 
Mr. Herbert’s species apparently differs not only in the 
colour of the flowers, but in having the staminal cup un- 
toothed, the filaments smooth, and the style longer than the 
stamens. 
I did not see the leaves of this species ; 
scribes them to me as two, two feet long, cy 
Mr. Rogers de- 
lindrical with a 
* So named after Dr. Besser, Professor of Botany at Brody, and author of 
an enumeration of the plants Volhynia, Podolia, Sc. 
June, 1839. N 
