the lower margin. Stamens four, didynamous ; filaments, 
subulate, purple, decurrent : Anthers transverse, one celled, 
glabrous, upon a thickened. apex of the filament. Pistil : 
Germen ovate, two celled, situated within a fleshy ring ; 
cells having many seeds attached to a rounded, central re- 
ceptacle: Style filiform, thickened, compressed ; the epi- 
dermis corrugated, especially upwards: Stigma (not bifid) 
gaping; with a green, viscid, fungous substance at the 
mouth for retaining the pollen.” Lendley MSS. 
Seven species of this genus have been figured, and de- 
scribed by Dr. Pout, in his splendid “ Plantarum Brasilie 
Icones et Descriptiones hactenus inedite ;’’ which genus, 
that author has dedicated to the Emperor of Austria, 
Francis the First. Yet, of those seven species, not one 
can be said so entirely to accord with the present, as to 
enable me to satisfy myself, that it is there described. 
Either the individuals of the genus, therefore, are liable to 
much variation, or ours must be reckoned a new species. 
It differs remarkably from all, particularly from the few 
flowered kinds, by the shortness of the tube of the corolla. 
And that, in this respect, the plant is not liable to vary 
much, we may conjecture from the circumstance, of the 
wild specimen I have received from Wm. Swatnson, Esq., 
gathered by him at Pernambuco in Brazil, being exactly 
the same. The F. uniflora of Pout comes, perhaps, the 
nearest to it; but, that I possess from Dr. Marius, and 
the tube of the corolla is at least twice as long as in our 
plant, and the leaves are more inclined to obovate. 
The specimen from which the accompanying figure was 
taken, flowered in the stove of Roperr Barcray, Esq., 
at Bury Hill. It was first sent from Brazil, by Marsa 
BereEsrorp, to his sister Mrs. Tuomas Hops, of. Deepden, 
Surry, who has thus been the means of introducing to our 
stoves a most interesting and desirable plant ; for not only 
are the flowers of a rich purple-blue colour, but they are 
excessively fragrant. | mire! | 
Mr. Linptey had already made some sketches and notes 
upon this plant, which he very kindly communicated: to 
me 3; and of which I have availed myself in the above :de- 
' Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Portion of the Corolla with the Stamens. 3. Pistil. 
Pies ogo upper part of the Style. 5, Section of the Germen.— 
agnified. 
