yellow, oblong glands,at the.points. Corolla large, showy. 
Petals obcordato-cuneate, somewhat clawed, the base white, 
the rest‘rose-coloured,,marked with darker lines, the extre- 
mity crenate. Stamens ten, inserted upon a five-toothed, 
deep, cup-shaped, hie foe nectary.:. the five longer 
filaments within the teeth; the five shorter ones situated in 
the sinuses of the teeth. _Anther roundish, yellow. Styles 
hairy ; Stigmas capitate, glandulous, 
Raised from seeds, sent by our friend A. CruicksHanxs, 
from Valparaiso. It is one of the handsomest, if not the 
very handsomest of this beautiful Genus, rising to a height 
of a foot, or a foot and a half, and covered with the ae 
rose-coloured blossoms, which it bears for very many weeks 
in succession. We have hitherto, in the Glasgow Botanic 
sarden, kept it in a cool part.of the stove, where it pro- 
ripen its se¢ el .. The flowering season with us 
mises to ripen its seed 
has been March and April, Lined 
It is assuredly the O. floribunda of Leumann and Linptey. 
The Oxatis rosea, with small red, scarcely lined flowers 
figured at p. 2415 of the’ Botanital Magazine, may, pro- 
bably,-be a distinct species. Ours is surely the “ Oxys roseo 
flore, erectior, vulgo Cullé,” which comes from the same — 
country, “ moist humid places in the kingdom of Chili, in 
the thirty-seventh degree of South latitude.” The Indians 
there make use of it mixed with other plants as'a dye. _ mS 
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\ Fig. I. Petal. 2. Flower deprived of the Petals.» 3. Stamens enclosing 
the 4. Portion of the nectary with Stamens.—Magnified. | 
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