Style 5—10-cleft, longer than stamens, purple. Capsules 
(immature) 5—10, truncate, united nearly their whole 
length. | 
De Caxpotte, in his elaborate Prodromus of the vege- 
table kingdom, enumerates no fewer than one hundred 
and ninety-five species of Sra ;-many ofthese, however, 
are undoubtedly a repetition of the same, the characters 
by which they are in general defined being in many cases 
much disposed to vary. | 
Our plant was raised at the late Mr. Verr’s garden, at 
Kensington Gore, from seeds received from Dr. WAtticu, 
and flowered in December 1821. In Mr. Lameert’s Her- 
barium, there is a fine specimen of this plant, ticketed 
withthe name we have adopted, in Dr. Waxticn’s hand- 
writing, by which it appears to have first flowered in the 
garden at Calcutta, in 1819, and to have been introduced 
there fromthe island of Java. | 
In De Canpotte’s enumeration of the species, it is ar- 
ranged in the third section, Anuriton of Kuntu. 
Native of the East Indies. Requires the heat of the 
stove, where it flowered in December 1821. 
