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Lycunis BunGEANA. Dr. Bunee’s SCARLET 
CAMPION. 
SR 
Class and Order. 
Decanpria PENTAGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—CaryorHv.1es. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, nudus. Petala 5, unguicu- 
lata, fauce sepius coronata. Stamina 10. Stylib. Cap- 
sula 1—}-locularis, anthophoro longo vel nullo. D €. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Lycunis Bungeana; caule pubescenti, foliis ovato-lanceo- 
latis ciliatis sessilibus, floribus axillaribus terminali- 
busque solitariis, calycibus pilosis profunde 10-an- 
gulatis, petalis (coccineis) obsolete coronatis angusto- 
cuneatis apice profunde inciso-multifidis. 
Lycunis Bungeana. Fisch. et Mey. Hort. Petrop. 
I regret that the history of this most beautiful plant is 
unknown to me, further than that it was received at the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, (where it flowered in a warm 
open border in September, 1835,) from Mr. Boortu of Ham- 
burgh, under the name here adopted, and evidently intend- 
ed to commemorate the services, rendered to Science and 
Botany in particular, of Dr. ALEXANDER Bunce, who not 
only accompanied Professor Leprsour in his celebrated 
travels in the Altai, but was attached to the Russian mission 
which went to Pekin, during which he collected many 
plants in the north of China. From the circumstance of 
that species of Lycunis, which is perhaps the most nearly — 
allied to it, (L. grandiflora, Jaca. L. coronata, Tuuns., and — 
Curr. Bot. Mag. t. 233,) being a native of China and Japan, 
I had hoped to have found some account of the present 
among 
