axils of the superior leaves, or clustered at the extremity of 
the branches, all sessile, or having so short a pedicel as to 
- appear destitute ofany.. Calyx cup-shaped, with five acute, 
almost erect segments. Corolla yellow, a little inclining to 
orange ; petals roundish .er obecordate. Stamens nume- 
rous, united by their filaments into a tube, yellow. Pistz : 
Germens ten, pubescent, united around the base of the 
style, destitute of spines: Styles ten, united in their lower 
half: Stigmas clavate. 
The seeds of this, which I take to be an undescribed spe- 
cies of Srna, were sent from Menpoza in South America, by 
Dr. Gitures, and produced plants, which flowered in the 
stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in November, 1827. 
The flowers are very small, and not possessed of bright 
colours; so that, as an ornamental plant, it is scarcely 
worthy of cultivation, = 
‘There seem to be few species of this Genus described 
whose flowers are sessile, or subsessile. Amongst them is 
the S. pellita of Kunrn (holosericea of Sprene.); but that 
has birostrate capsules, and ‘the S. verticillata, which is 
said to be a somewhat hairy plant, and to have only five 
birostrate capsules. 
“Fig 1, Pistib—-Mapnifed.: 
