ftellate ; fegments (lightly cohering for a very fhort di Ranee 

 at their bafe, linear-oblong, fubunguiculate, acute, fubundulate. 

 Parts oi fructification falcicled, ftraightifh, rather longer than 

 the corolla. Stigma obfoletely trifid. Germen bright green, 

 turbinate- fphaeroid. Blooms at various feafons ; is generally 

 treated as a Hove plant ; though we (liould think it would 

 do better at the foot of a fouthern wall with belladonna^ but 

 not planted too mallow. 



According to the Bankfian Herbarium, our plant was brought 

 into the Kew Gardens about 1788, from the Cape ; Jacouin 

 received it from the fame place. There is a gardening tra- 

 dition that it was likewife received from Japan by the late 

 Dr. Fothergill ; if fo, this, with belladonna and farnienjis> 

 would make the third fpecies of the genus that is common to 

 the Cape as w^rll as to countries immenfely diftant from it ; but 

 we confefs that we place no reliance whatever on the ftory 

 beyond its bare poffibility. 



Our drawing was taken at MefTrs. Grimwoop and Wykes's, 

 Jvenfington. G, 



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