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PREPUSA HooKeERIANA. SCARLET AND 
WHITE-FLOWERED PREPUSA. 
Class and Order. 
HexanpriaA Monoeynis. 
- ( Nat. Ord.—GenTIANEZ. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx laxe campanulatus, coloratus, sexfidus, ad suturas 
alatus. Corolla hypogyna, tubo brevi cylindrici, limbo 
campanulato sexfido, decidua. Discus hypogynus carno- 
sus, corolle tubo adnatus, persistens. Stamina 6, corolle 
fauci inserta : filamenta qualia, anthere erecte, immutate, 
longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium uniloculare. Ovula 
in placentis suturalibus plurima. Séylus filiformis, rectus ; 
Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula unilocularis, bivalvis. Se- 
mina plurima, minima,—Frutex Brasiliensis ; rams erectis 
fastigiatis ; foliis decussatis, superne congestis; racemis 
terminalibus foliosis ; floribus speciosis, luteis. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Prerusa * Hookeriana; herbacea, cespitosa, foliis radica- 
libus lineari-spathulatis subcarnosis uninerviis, caulinis 
subconnatis, calyce campanulato maximo inflato 6- 
angulato colorato. Gardner. BS 
This.is one of the very many novelties which reward- 
ed Mr. Garpner’s indefatigable researches during his five 
years’ travels in Brazil. He had the good fortune to bring 
home living plants of it, which have been sent to the Bo- 
tanic Gardens of Kew and Glasgow and other establish- 
ments. Our figure is, however, made in Brazil from recent 
native specimens, by Miss E. Duruam, and we shall here 
give Mr. Garpner’s own description, drawn up on the | 
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* From spaeca, conspicuous, showy, according to Martius; from the 
_ noble blossoms which the individual species bear, few being more orna- 
mental in the eminently beautiful natural family to which the plant belongs. 
