paleae are keeled and terminate in an acute point. Florets funnel- 

 fhaped, contracted below into a filiform pedicle : limb five-cleft, 

 reflexed. Style longer than the florets, and jligmas revolute. 

 Leaves oppofite, hairy, varioufly cut at the edges, decurrent 

 down the footftalk, and continued riience down the ftem to the 

 next joint, which makes the ftem four-winged. The feeds are 

 flat, with a broad, white, membranaceous margin, emarginate, 

 and crowned with two equal, erect briftles. Has not a conical 

 receptacle. 



It is a lofty hot-houfe plant. Native of Mexico. The fpe- 

 cimen from which our drawing was made, was communicated 

 by Meflrs. Whitley, Brame, and Milne, of the Fulham 

 Nurfery, in February 1813. The fame plant was raifed by 

 Aylmer Burke Lambert, Efq. by whom we were favoured 

 with a fpecimen with mature feeds. 



