arranged it with the Per/fonate; but Jussreu, in his Genera 
Plantarum, removed it far from hence, and placed it with his 
— Campanulacee. 3 
Though. it differs more efpecially by its fuperior calyx, it 
approaches, neverthelefs, both in external appearance and 
fenfible qualities to Dic1tatis. We have fometimes obferved 
rudiments of a fifth ftamen, which feems to ftrengthen its af- 
finity with Cuexons and other Bignonie ; and the hairy bafe 
to the filaments and peculiar form of the anthers fhow a rela- 
tionfhip with Vexspascum and Cexsra. It has been un- 
doubtedly mifplaced by Jussieu, of which he is now fenfible; 
and, in a later publication, has dire€ted it to be removed from 
his Campanulacee, and inclines, with M. Ricuarp, to unite it 
with a few other genera into a new natural order*. 
The {pecies here figured grows with an upright ftem, three 
or four feet high, bearing its leaves crowded together, towards 
the top only; the lower part being naked, but woolly, and 
marked with the veftiges of the former foliage. The flowers 
grow in corymbs on long footftalks, which iffue from the axils 
_ of the leaves. 
Native of the Weft-India iflands and the continent of 
South-America; obferved by Swartz to grow in fteep de- 
clivities on the banks of torrents and rivulets in Jamaica, and 
by Jacgurn on the rocks by the fea-fhore in Cuba. 
With us it muft be preferved in the bark ftove. Propa- 
gated by feeds only. Flowers in moft parts of the year. 
Cultivated in the Apothecaries Garden at Chelfea, in the year 
1759. Communicated by Mr. LoppicEs. 
* This order is diftinguithable by a one-celled fruit, with parietal receptacles, 
a flethy difk furrounding the bafe of the ovary, ftamens inferted into the corolla 
and not correfponding in number with its divifions, Vide Anwals of Botanys 
Vth, 2» pr 5676 
