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the tube. Germen two-celled. Stigma thickened, two- 
lobed, green. Capsule enclosed by the calyx, ovate. 
Communicated in June, 1828, by Dr. Granam, from the 
Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where it was raised, having 
been sent from Mendoza, by Dr. Gitties. Hitherto it had 
been treated as a greenhouse plant : but Dr. Granam con- 
jectures that it will thrive better in the open border. 
Perunia seems to differ from Nicott1ana in little else but 
its irregular corolla, which being wanting here, I have 
reluctantly differed from my valued friend, who has hitherto 
alone described this species, in considering it not to be of 
that Genus. 
Fig. 1. Pistil and Calyx. 2. Section of an advanced Germen. 3. Cap- 
sule invested by the Calyx.—Magnified. 
