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ScHIZOPETALON WALKERI. WALKER’S 
ScHIZOPETALON. 
EKER KEE EEE EE ERE KK EEE 
Class and Order. 
TETRADYNAMIA S1iiqvosa. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. cylindracens, basi equalis, clausus. Petala ovata in- 
See Pinnateida. Stigmata gibbosa, approximata. Cetera 
sunt. 
Specific Name. 
Scuizopetaton Walkeri. 
Although we can give only a very imperfect generic 
sakes" yet, from the very chile ken of the 
petals, perhaps quite a solitary instance in the natural order 
of the crucifere, we venture to announce this curious plant, 
a8 anew genus of that family. 7 . 
It grows with a rather feeble, assurgent stem. Lower 
leaves four or five inches Iong, sinuate-pinnatifid, scabrous 
On both sides and at the margins, distant. Peduncles ax- 
illary, solitary, but collected into a receme at the top. 
Calyx cylindrical, with an equal base, and connivent. Pe- 
tals spreading, flat, the Zamina cut into regular segments. 
As we have never seen the seed vessels, even in an ro 
State, tolerably perfect, our description must necessarily 
very defective; but as it may be very long before other 
Specimens of this plant may come under our notice, we are 
unwilling to miss the opportunity of publishing it. Should 
it hereafter be found to unite with any known genus, our 
;ame, derived from the form of the petals, must of course 
. Sven up as a generic, but may still be retained as a 
trivial one 
It was raised from seeds, received from Chili, by Joun 
Waker, Esq. and flowered in November. Is probably 
2 annual or biennial. : 
