half to two inches long, having two linear or almost seta- 
ceous stipules at the base. Racemes few flowered, from 
two to three on a peduncle, having one or two rather large 
stellato-pubescent bractee, and a smaller glabrous one at 
the base of each pedicel. Calyx (as well as the peduncle 
and pedicels) glabrous, smooth, subcampanulate, quinque- 
fid, the segments subulate, erecto-patent. Petals five, pure 
white, ovato-lanceolate, somewhat unguiculate, and united 
by the marginal hairs of these claws, as well as by the base 
of the cylindrical column or tube of the stamens : this tube 
separates into many short branching filaments, each branch 
bearing a yellow, kidney-shaped, one-celled Anther. Ger- 
men of five angles, small, roundish, tipped with five short, 
filiform styles, much shorter than the staminal tube. 
Seeds of this singular species of Sma were received by 
> Mr. Murray, at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, both from 
Mr. Fraser, at New Holland, and from a correspondent in 
Van Dieman’s Island. Plants of it were placed in a shel- 
tered situation in the open air, and have survived two 
winters, one of which has been very severe. The flowers, 
however, were produced in the greenhouse, in the month of 
March. 
I have not the opportunity of consulting Bonpianp’s 
plants of the garden of Malmaison, where the present 
species is figured ; and, although Dre Canpotte’s character 
accords in most of the essential particulars ; yet it must be 
allowed, that it differs in the relative length of the raceme 
with the petiole; which, however, may be a variable circum- 
stance, and, I suspect, too, in the biaristate capsules: for, 
although I have no ripe capsules to examine, by which I 
might set the matter at rest; yet, I think, if present in the 
capsule, the aristea would be apparent in the state of the 
germen. 
_ Sprencer unites the S. pulchella of Witty. with the S. 
ramosa of CavaniLLEs, and says it is a native of Peru; 
whilst Dr Canpotte gives Senegal as the native country of 
S. ramosa. 
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. Fig. 1. Portion of a Raceme. 2. Portion of the Stamens. 3. Flower cut 
open to shew the structure of the Corolla, the tube of the Stamens, and the 
Pistil_— More or less magnified. 
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