be discovered by M. Libon, in the environs of Villa Franca, 
Brazil, and introduced to Brussels by M. de Jonghe. It is a 
free flowerer ; and a bush, at the time we write, early in March, 
is quite gay with the large purple blossoms, in a warm stove ; 
and we have received fine specimens at the same season from 
Mr. Moore, of Chelsea, not only of this, but also of 7. calycina, 
exhibiting the same characters as we have above noticed. 
Descr. An erect, branching shrub, 2-3 feet high; branches 
terete. Leaves petiolate, broad, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, acu- 
minate, opaque, rather obscurely penniveined, pale beneath : pe- 
tiole short, about half an inch long. Flowers terminal, from two 
to four or five from a branchlet, large, handsome. Calyx elon- 
gated, cylindrical, not at all inflated, slightly curved, downy, an 
inch and a quarter long ; dimé of five, short, linear-lanceolate, 
erect or slightly curved, teeth, one of the sinuses cleft much deeper 
down than the rest. Corolla large, handsome, when first open- 
ing rich purple, by the second day fading almost to white. 7ude 
long, slender, a little exceeding the calyx in length, and where 
exserted having a peculiar flexuous curve, which brings the broad 
limb into an oblique position; lobes of the dims subrotund, 
spreading horizontally, fave a little elevated, forming a white 
ring. Stamens, as in the genus, included. Style, as long as the 
ae of the corolla, dilated upwards. Stigma obscurely two- 
obed. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Re th : ae : 
esipeited: yx presents the calyx of Franciscea calycina :—both slightly 
