large cordate perforated dissepiments, and between, in each 
cell, two vertical plates, covered at their margins, the whole 
way down, with numerous oblong ovules. Style reaching 
as high as the anthers, acuminated, trigonal, purple, having 
below the point three oblong, white glands, which repre- 
sent the stigmata. 
BarBaceniA was so named by Vanpexu, in honour of 
Bargacena, a governor of Minas Geraes, in Brazil. The 
species, however, of that author seems to be very imper- 
fectly known. Drs. Sprx and Martius discovered twelve 
species during their travels in Brazil, inhabiting mountains 
of micaceous schist and other primitive rocks, in dry barren 
places, at an elevation of from one thousand to five thou- 
sand five hundred feet above the level of the sea, and 
between the fourteenth and twenty-third parallels of south 
latitude. Although a smaller race of plants, they seem in 
to be very nearly allied to the VeLuosim, which in- 
habit similar places in Brazil, and which by their curiously 
branched and spreading trunks with terminal tufts of leaves 
(not much unlike some of the Axozs, especially the A. di- 
chotoma,) and liliaceous flowers, give a peculiar aspect to 
their native districts. Of the twelve species of BarpacEnts 
known to M. M. Sprx and Marrivus, six only are yet de- 
scribed by them in the Nova Genera et Species Planta- 
rum Brasiliensium. With none of those species does the 
present one accord, and which, I believe, is the first that 
has ever been known in a state of cultivation. The seeds 
were gathered from a bundle of Brazilian moss by the 
Honorable and Reverend Wituiam Herserr of Spofforth ; 
and some young plants being sent to Lord Mimron’s col- 
lection at Wentworth House, they were there brought to 
flower under Mr. Cooper’s judicious management, when a 
beautiful specimen was communicated to me in the month 
of August, 1827. 
‘The caudex or stem, Mr. Coorzr observes, is very short, 
and, probably, only arises from the old leaves falling away 
from the lower part of the plant. At present the young 
plant bears few flowers ; but an old plant, with its nume- 
rous blossoms, which, it would no doubt produce, of a deep 
and lively purple colour, must have a very beautiful effect ; 
and, it will be acknowledged to be a most valuable and 
interesting addition to our stoves. : 
it is to be increased by dividing the plant, and it like- 
wise promises to ripen its seeds. 
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Fig. 1. Flower cut open, 2. Stamen. 3. Back view of the Anther. 4. 
Style and Stigma. 5, Section of the Germen,—Al more or less magnified. 
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