le blue, inclining to purplish, segments, throat yellow. 
nities four : Fille senextes near the base of the tube: 
Anthers \inear-oblong; reaching a little higher than the tube, 
white. Germen two-celled, each having near the base of 
the dissepiment an ascending, short, filiform receptacle, 
bearing a cluster of ovules: upon the top of the germen, 
and on each side of the base of the style, are two fleshy, 
green glands. Style filiform, white, about as long as the 
tube of the corolla: Stigmas two, linear, pubescent. Cap- 
‘ sules collected into a very compact, globular head, some- 
what turbinate, membranous and inflated, crowned with the 
segments of the calyx, hairy, didymous. Seeds by no 
means filling the cell, ten or twelve in each, somewhat 
angular, dark brown, minutely tuberculated. 
A very beautiful stove plant, flowering almost the whole 
year through, and remarkable in the Genus for the large 
size and rich colour of the flowers, as well as for the great 
breadth of the leaves, and rich clothing of purple hairs upon 
the stem. It is a native of Brazil, about Rio, where it 
cannot be uncommon ; for it is not unfrequently sent to this 
country in seed, or as dried specimens. Our first knowledge 
of the plant was from the latter, which were transmitted to 
us nearly at the same time by Mr. Booe, Mr. BurcHett, 
and Dr. Scouter. In 1826 and 1827 it flowered in the 
stove of Rosert Barctay, Esq. at Bury Hill, where our 
drawing was made, and where from only a casual inspection 
of the plant it had been called “Campanu.a nummulariifolia” — 
by Dr. Sims. In the months of February and March plants 
have flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden ; for some of 
which we are indebted to Mr. Barcuay ; and others, raised 
from Brazilian seeds were sent to us by the Honourable the 
ry | Justice Cuerx. It deserves a place in every collec- 
The stems in the younger part of the plant are fragile; 
but there is a ceabeas mes of Saeels which is by no 
means so easily broken, ; kd nett o 
* Since the above was printed, this plant has appeared in Jamzson’s Edinb. 
Phil. Journal aj Maiveriacapitata. = 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Calyx and Pistil. 3. Section of the Ger- 
men. 4. Head of Capsules (natural size).. 5. Single didymous Capsule. — 
6. One of the two portions entire. 7. The other cut through vertically to 
shew the Seeds. 8. Single Seed :— All but fig. 4 more or less magnified. 
