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TourrReTTIA LAPPACEA. Bur-FRUITED 
TourRETTIA. 
KERR RE KKEEK EEE ERE EERE 
Class and Order. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Bienontacea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx bilabiatus. Corolla unilabiata. Labium superius 
concameratum., Stam. 4, quorum 2 breviora, Capsula 
turgida, 4-locularis. Semina pauca, imbricata, marginata. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Tourrettia lappacea. 
Tourrettia lappacea. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 263. 
Domseya lappacea. L’ Hérit. Stirp. p. 33. t. 17. 
This singular plant, a native of Peru, was there found by 
the celebrated Botanist and Traveller, Domsey, and consti- 
tuting, as it did, a new Genus, he named it in honour of a 
Botanist of Lyons, M. de la Tourrerre, author of a 
** Chloris Lyonaise,” and a Voyage au Mont Pilatus, and to 
whom J. J. Rousseau addressed several of his botanical let- 
ters. The present is the only known species of the Genus, 
and is remarkable for the very curious structure of its 
flowers, and for the bright vermillion-red of the calyx 
before the full expansion of the blossom, and which then 
becomes green. The corolla resembles that of a Pepicu- 
Laris deprived of its lower lip. The germen is clothed 
with deflexed, red tubercles, and is succeeded by a pretty 
large membranous, inflated capsule, clothed with long but 
softish prickles, strongly hooked at the extremity. The 
plant was long ago introduced to the Paris Garden My 
Domzeyr, but appears to have been soon lost to Europe, ti 
in 1837, Joun M‘Lean, Esq., of Lima, sent it from that 
neighbourhood 
