beyond the finus formed by'the leaf always fhort and fo con- 
tratted that, from the nearnefs of the terminal and cauline 
involucres, the peduncles or branches form one compound : 
fafcicle; upper leaf oppofite, fhort. Involucres herbaceous, | 
ftiff, upwards fphacelate and awnedly gracilefcent. F lowers — 
delightfully fragrant, varying exceedingly in fize and in colour — 
from a lilac to a deep blue, open in fucceffion, and laft about 
_fix hours each. Ungues upright. Filaments nearly the length 
of the ungues, about as long as the anthers, not connate the 
whole way. Stigmas about the length of the inner fegments. 
.Capfule trigonal-columnar, flender, about an inch or more 
long, different from Mor 2a /riffis, which has an ovate-oblong 
fhort and very thick capfule with larger feeds. The attending 
to the form and proportion of the capfules will be peculiarly 
ufeful in the fpecific diftin&tions of this genus, An old denizen 
of the Dutch gardens. Found at the Cape of Good Hope by 
‘TpuNBERG growing in fandy places in Groenekloof, Sw: 
land, and very abundantly in the low lands about Cape-Town 
and the Duyvelfberg, The fpecimen from which our drawing 
‘was taken was fent us in Augult laft by Mr. Loppicss, 
Nurferyman at Hackney, who imported it from the Cape. 
~ We have always fufpeéted the two varieties of the {pecies of 
‘of this work ; but we did not venture to 
of Linn. fil. (In1s plumaria of THUNBERG) always saad 
a fynonymto Mor#a vegeta, isa very diftin& {pecies, with 
‘larger fegments bearded and the ftigmas fetaceoufly multifi 
(phe Mora juncea of Mixier has yellow flowers 
fubulate leaves. The Morea vegeta of Mixer’s ei 
edition of his Diétionary, figitred in -his 299th plate, is 
Morea tridjoides of Linn « usand Tuunse 
| ‘quite diftin& from -theit Mor wa vegeta, though he qu 
