laciniae are diftinct and ere£l, forming a hood or umbrella over 

 theftyle. Stamens 5, quickly perifhing; filaments fhort, recurved, 

 inferted into the crown of the germen ; anthers linear. Style ereft, 

 incurved, hairy ; Stigma large, compreflTed, ciliated at the 

 mouth. Capfutes five-angled, gibbous, two celled, fplitting at 

 the point into four valves, to difcharge the feeds. Seeds lenti- 

 cular, attached to the diffepiment, which is detached from the 

 fides of the capfule at its upper part. Embryo in the centre 

 of a flefhy perifperm : radicle defcendent. 



As foon as the flower opens, the ftamens are bent quite away 

 from the ftigma ; but the anthers in this genus, as in moft, if 

 not all, the family of campanulaceae, fhed their pollen before 

 the corolla is expanded. If the flower-bud in this fpecies be 

 carefully opened a day or two before its proper feafon of ex- 

 panding, a moft curious fpeaacle offers itfelf, the ftigma will 

 be found ereB, open, in the fhape of a cup, and fometimes 

 completely rilled with the pollen, ftied from the anthers, which 

 now connive over its mouth. Before the flower opens, the 

 ftyle is much lengthened, and the ftigma clofes, the filament* 

 at the fame time fhrinking away. 



The flowers have a fweet, but not very agreeable, fmell, * 

 and the whole plant partakes of the fame. 



If brought forward by fowing the feeds in a gentle hot- bed 

 in the fpring, and the young plants be afterwards fet out in 

 open ground, they will flower about the beginning of Auguft, 

 and continue to blofTom till the froft fets in. The feeds will 

 ripen in Oaober. Requires a plentiful fupplv of water. 



We received this plant from Mr. Whitley, of Old- 

 Brompton, who raifed it from feeds from New South-Wales. 



