Tas. 4941. 
LYSIMACHIA NUTANS. 
Drooping- flowered Lysimachia. 
Nat. Ord. Primutacez.—PENTANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla quinquepartita, subrotata campa- 
nulatave, calyce longior, tubo minimo. Stamina 5, basi corolle inserta : filamenta 
in quibusdam basi connata ; filamenta sterilia interdum totidem ac fertilia: an- 
there oblonge. Capsula globosa, 5—10-valvis, apice dehiscens, polysperma.— 
Herbee plerumgue perennes ; foliis alternis oppositis vel verticillatis integerrimis ; 
floribus azillaribus racemosis, spicatis aut paniculatis. Duby. 
Lysrmacuta (§ Ephemerum) nutans ; caule erecto subsimplici, foliis oppositis 
ternisve lanceolatis integris margine subsinuatis acuminatis glaberrimis basi 
in petiolum brevem coarctatis, floribus racemosis terminalibus primo congestis 
demum per florescentiam laxis, bracteolis lineari-subulatis pedicellis subduplo 
minoribus, calycis tubulosi 5-angularis 5-partiti corolla subtriplo brevioris 
laciniis lanceolato-linearibus obtusis, corolle tubuloso-campanulata lobis 
lanceolato-spathulatis apice eroso-denticulatis, staminibus sequalibus exsertis, 
stylo subulato. Duby. 
Lysrmacata nutans. Nees ab Esenb. Del. Sem. Hort. Bonn. 1831. De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 8. p. 61. 
Lystmacnra atropurpurea. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 180 (not Linn. et auct., nor the 
plant there quoted of Commelin). 
Lusrnta atropurpurea. Link ef Otto, Hort. Ber. t. 21. Sweet, Fl. Gard. Ser. 2. 
v. 1. ¢. 84, 
Coxta. Endl. Gen. p. 733. 
A South African plant of comparatively recent discovery, having 
been found in marshy mountains of the Cape district by Ecklon 
and Zeyher and by Drege, and introduced to the gardens of this 
country. It was confounded by Link and Otto and Sweet with 
the Mauritian genus ZLubinia; but it seems clearly to belong 
to the “Ephemerum ” section of Zysimachia, however different 
from other species of the genus in the size and colour of the 
flowers. It blossoms in July, and bears the open air well in 
summer; but the root requires shelter in the winter. The spe- 
OCTOBER Ist, 1856. 
