quite entire (Trnoré says emarginate), purple, veined, two 
of them stained with a deeper colour towards the base. 
Filaments five fertile, bearmg dark purple two-celled 
anthers, opening internally, and five sterile, alternating 
with the fertile. Stigma five-rayed, persistent. | 
This species has considerable affinity with Eropium 
malacoides, of which very variable species it perhaps may 
be thought to be only a variety. It differs however in 
having larger flowers; much longer seed vessels ; pedicels 
longer and more horizontal; leaves softer and more 
glaucous. | 
Communicated, in flower, in July last, by Pamir Barger 
Wess, Esq. to whom we are entirely indebted for the 
above synonymy. This gentleman informs us, that the 
plant was sent to Professor Tenoré by his pupil, Dox 
Giovanno Gussoné, from Avellino, in Sicily, where. Mr. 
Wenrs gathered both specimens and seeds. Gussoné, a 
zealous, active, and accurate botanist, was at that time 
curator of the Duke of Calabria’s garden at: Palermo,. and 
gave Mr. Wess reason to expect from him before long, 4 
Flora Sicula; with descriptions of many new species. 
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