Tab. 4339. 
BROWALLIA speciosa. 
Showy-Jlowered Browallia. 
Nat. Orel. Sceophulakine^.—Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Cal. 5-dentatus v. B-fidus. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tube su- 
peme parum dilatato, limbo obliquo breviter et late subbilabiatim 5-lobo, lobis 
emarginatis (in B. speciom acuminatis) antico paulo majore, sestivatione plicato- 
bilabiata. Stamina fertilia 4; postica breviora, filamentis lanatis, antberarum 
loculo altero minimo casso; antica longiora, antheris aequaliter bilocularibus. 
Stylus apice bifidus, lobis latissimis divaricato-subbilobis, intus stigmatosis. 
Capsula membranacea, valvulis bifidis, dissepimento tenuissimo. Emhryo rectus. 
—Herbse rarius frutices, Americae australis, plus minus viscido-pubescentes. Folia 
alterna, integerrima. Flores ad axillas foliorum superiorum pedicellati; in cymas 
irregulares terminales dispositi. Corollae violaceue, ceerulescentes v. albi/da. Bentk. 
in Be Cand. 
Browallia speciosa •, foliis oppositis alternisve ovatis acuminatis petiolatis, 
pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris, calycis laciniis subulatis tubum 
mquantibus, corollae laciniis ovato-acuminatis. 
Had not the name of grandijlora been pre-occupied, we should 
gladly have adopted it for the present new species of Browallia 
which we had the good fortune to receive from our Collector, 
Mr. Purdie, who discovered it in the mountains of Tolima and 
Quindiu, in the year 1846. The flowers are thrice the size of 
those of B. grandijlora and the segments of the corolla are not 
retuse, nor bifid, but acuminate. It flowered in September, 
1847, both in the stove of Kew Gardens and in those of Syon 
House, being derived from the same source, 
Descr. Btem erect, branched, glabrous (as is almost every 
part of the plant). Leaves sometimes opposite, sometimes alter¬ 
nate. Peduncles axillaiy, solitary, single-flowered, in general 
shorter than the leaf. Calyx-tube ovato-cylindrical: limb of five, 
erect, subulate segments, nearly equal in length with the tube. 
Corolla hypocrateriform: tube long, slender, thrice the length of 
the calyx: limb oblique, somewhat two-lipped, of five large, 
spreading, ovate, acuminate segments, striated, pale lilac beneath, 
DECEMBER IST, 1847. ^ ^ 
