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FrRANCOA RAMOSA. WHITE-FLOWERED 
FRANCOA. 
KEKE EEE EEE EEEERERE 
Class and Order. 
OcranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord—Francoacem. Ad. de Juss. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 4-partitus, persistens. Petala4. Stamina 8 fer- 
tilia, totidem sterilia minuta cum iis alternantia. Germen 
4-sulcatum. Stigma sessile 4-lobatum. Capsula 4-loba, 
4-locularis, polysperma. Semina angulo interiori loculo- 
rum imserta. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Francoa ramosa ; foliis sessilibus lyrato-pinnatifidis lobis_ 
lateralibus approximatis spe coadunatis, scapo ramo- 
so, floribus albis, stigmatibus obscure bilobis. 
Francoa appendiculata. Don, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. 
1828, p. 52. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. N. S. t. 223. Hook. 
et Arn. in Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 339. 
This white-flowered Francoa was found at Valparaiso by — 
Mr. Cuming, (n. 779 of his Collection), and at Quebrada de _ 
las Lacunas, near Valparaiso, by Mr. Bripexs (his n. 197) 
in 1832. Seeds were sent over about that time, and the 
plant has been raised in our gardens, and proves as hardy 
as the better known F. appendiculata. Although it iscon- 
sidered by many Botanists that there are three species of 
Francoa, namely, F. appendiculata (Cav.), F. sonchifolia 
(Cav.), and our present one, yet it appears to us very doubt-_ 
ful if it would not be more correct to consider them as varie- 
ties of the original « Luaupanxe amplissimo sonchifolio” of 
Fevttt., 
