- NOLANA PARADOXA. VIOLET-COLOURED 
NoLana. 
~ Class and Order. 
Pentanpri4 Monoeynia. 
Generi¢ Character. 
Cor. campanulata. Sty 3 inter germina. Nuces 5, 
2—4-loculares. _ 4 
| Specific Character and Synonym. 
Notana paradoxa ; caulibus prostratis hirsutis, calycibus 
sepius triangularibus, corollis infundibuliformi-cam- 
panulatis. i ; 
_Notana paradoxa ; caule prostrato et foliis ovatis obtusis 
tiolatis pilosis, calycis laciniis triangularibus, nucu- 
is ae monospermis. Lindley in Bot. Reg. 
n. 865. t, 
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a 
_ We examined several flowers of this plant at different 
times, but in all we found five germens, united together, 
_ and seated on a glandular five-lobed receptacle. In no in- 
stance did we meet with any thing like what is described 
_In the Botanical Register ; so that we suspect the specimen 
_€xamined by Mr. Linptey may have been a monstrosity. 
The principal difference we could observe in this species 
_ from Noxana prostrata existed in the calyx and corolla. 
In Notana paradoxa the calyx was very generally, in an 
early stage, divided only into two navicular segments, one 
~ them with one, and the spe Sie 4 seigg A in 
_ later stage, these segments often split at the keels, when — 
_ the calse Becomes feral differing from that of prostrata 
only in the want of the spur-like processes towards the 
The corolla in our present plant is larger, more 
funnel-shaped, and of a bright violet colour, with a wie 
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