Genera Plantarum. The number of petals varies in the 
cultivated state from 5 to 10, but all are quite symmetrical. 
B. chuquitensis flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment in 
September, and is quite hardy. (When first sent to view to 
be named, in 1865, it was supposed to be the C. coronata, 
under which name Mr. Veitch tells me that he has conse- 
quently distributed it.) 
- Descr. Whole plant laxly clothed with spreading shining 
stinging hairs, one-fifth of an inch long, also more or less 
stellately pubescent, especially upon the leaves beneath. 
Stem stout, erect, straight or flexuous, perhaps twining when 
full-grown, leafy. Leaves, including the petiole, eight to ten 
inches long; blade oblong-lanceolate, longer than the petiole, 
pinnatifid, the lower segments free, all ovate, irregularly 
pinnatifidly lobed, recurved, concave beneath. Peduncles 
axillary, two to four inches long. /owers one and a half to two 
inches in diameter, brick-red, with five to ten petals. Calyx 
turbinate ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, recurved, lobulate. Petals 
boat-shaped, rounded at the tip, setose at the back, bright 
brick-red, with yellow inside and on the outer margin on 
either side the tip. Scales cup-shaped, with three dorsal and 
two interior appendages. Capsule one and a half inches 
long, globosely turbinate, Dannie, slightly twisted when 
mature.—J. D. HH. 
Fig. 1, Scale and appendage :—magnified. 
