lated, large, handsome, orange-yellow flowers. Calyx al- 
most five-partite, the segments ovate, reflexed at the mar- 
gins. Petals twice the length of the calyx, orange-coloured, 
wedge-shaped, rounded and crenate at the extremity, some- 
what oblique, the base narrow, united there to each other, 
and to the column of stamens, a little ciliated just above 
. this point of union. Tube of Stamens somewhat conical, 
yellow, dividing at the extremity into numerous yellow | 
_ filaments, bearing deep orange-coloured reniform, one- 
celled anthers. Pollen large, globose. Pistil : Germen 
rounded, hairy, with nine points, and as many longitu- 
dinal angles. Style as long as the stamens, separating into | 
nine at the top, each tipped with a globose brown stigma. | 
Capsules nine, circularly disposed round an axis, and there i 
united, compressed, inflated, somewhat membranaceous, I 
longer than the persistent calyx, very hairy, glabrous only i 
where the sides touch each other, and there semipellucid : | 
the top truncated at the outer angle, lengthened into a | 
mucro, opening interiorly and longitudinally, and bearing 
four seeds attached to the suture. 
This is really a very desirable plant for the stove. Its 
leaves are large, handsome, and its flowers when the plant 
is well grown, are two inches across, of a fine clear orange- 
yellow, and produced in considerable abundance. It is a 
native of Peru. 
Seeds were received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from 
Gottingen, under the name of 8. grandifolia ; and, as such, 
it is published in Wittpenow’s Enumeratio, and figured in / 
the Botanical Register. ‘ 
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Fig. 1. Section of the Staminiferous Tube. 2. Anther, 3. Pistil. 4. Cap- 
sule. 5, The same laid open to shew the Seeds :—More or less magnified. — 
