ovate, keeled, reflected at the sides, a pair being placed at 
each bifurcation of the peduncle, caducous. Flowers mo- 
neecious, large, rose-coloured, very handsome. Male: one 
standing in each bifurcation, on a peduncle above two inches 
long, and having in the ultimate division a female flower on 
each side, unless, as is not unfrequent, one of the females 
roves abortive; corolla tetrapetalous, two of the petals 
nes (three-fourths of an inch in either diameter), cordato- 
“subrotund, and slightly pointed, the two others nearly as 
long, but much narrower, spathulate ; stamens about forty, 
yellow, monadelphous ; anthers bilobular, wedge-shaped, 
somewhat flattened; pollen yellow. Female: corolla 
smaller than in the male, generally of five, obovate, some- 
what irregular, unequal petals, occasionally only four; style 
greenish-yellow, stout, three-parted, diverging, enlarging 
and flattened towards the stigmata, which are large, revo- 
lute, glandular, each with two ascending angles, bright 
yellow ; germen pale green, with three very unequal wings, 
the largest acute, the second rounded, the smallest obtuse 
angled, trilocular, placente double in each loculament, 
waved, extending from the central column, to which they 
are attached, to the angles, throughout the whole length of 
the capsule, and every where densely covered with minute 
ovules. The male flowers expand first, and one of the fe- 
males before the other, on the same division of the peduncle. 
We received a plant of this beautiful species from the 
Botanic Garden : Berlin, in spring last, under the name of 
Brconia ciliata, but it differs entirely from the description 
of that species by Kunru, and I think from every other 
which is recorded. Its foliage is not equal to B. argyr- 
stigma, nor the appearance of its stem to B. dipetala, but it 
surpasses these and perhaps every other cultivated species 
in the gracefully drooping clusters of its large, bright- 
rose-coloured flowers. It adds greatly to its value that it — 
flowered most freely in the stove during December. 
regret that I cannot state from what country it was intro- 
duced into Europe. Granam. | 
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Fig. 1. Male Flower. 2. Female Flower, slightly magnified. 
