among the plants that have been described of those two 
countries : but none appears, and I am therefore ignorant 
both of the region of which it is a native, and of the name 
of the Botanist to whom we are indebted for its discovery *. 
Descr. Appearance and mode of growth extremely simi- 
lar to that of L. grandiflora ; but the stem is downy, and 
the leaves, though similar in form, are decidedly ciliated at 
the margin and on the nerve at the back. The flowers 
aad in a similar manner ; but here the calyx is hairy and 
eeply sulcated, presenting ten sharp angles. The most 
striking difference, however, resides in the petals, which 
instead of being of a dull orange red, very broad and 
closely placed, and only fimbriated at the extremity, are of 
a bright crimson, distantly placed, narrow-cuneate, and 
deeply laciniated, so as to be irregularly multifid at the 
extremity, 
* Since the above was written, Dr. von FiscHeERr informs me, that it was 
ue by Dr. Bunaz in a garden at Pekin: but its native country was not 
own. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Petal :—nat. size. 
