of the fruit reflected. Braciea at the primary division of 
the scape, a short entire sheath, at the secondary, divided 
into small leaflets, placed one on the outside of each pedicel. 
Calyx green, with a few adpressed hairs, leaflets lanceolato- 
elliptic, with narrow membranous edges, each having two 
oblong, approximating, orange callosities on the outside of 
the apex. Petals lilac, and veined, sub-linear, truncate, 
unequally crenate at the apex, spreading. Stamens ten, 
five shorter and five as much longer than the styles: jfila- 
ments colourless, united at the base, and above the union 
hairy. Anthers yellow, cordate, attached by their backs 
to the filaments. Germen nearly smooth, green, divided 
into five, oblong Jobes, each containing several seeds. 
Stigmata lobular, deep green, projecting between the 
longer filaments. ; 
The plant flowered abundantly in the stove of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in April, 1827, but has not 
roduced seeds. It was raised from seeds received from 
r. Harris at Rio de Janeiro, by Captain Grauam, of his 
Majesty’s Packet Service ; but other specimens which are . 
extremely similar were in the collection before, though it 
is not known from whence obtained. These differ from the 
plant described, only im having the back of the leaf more 
reticulated, the anthers paler, and the shorter stamens equal 
in length to the styles. Granam MSS. 
‘This may, perhaps, prove to be only a luxuriant state of 
Oxauts violacea, the figure of which plant in Jacq. Hort. 
Vindib. v. 2. t. 180, seems to be, as it were, intermediate 
between the small glabrous plant, given at t. 2215 of the 
Botanical Magazine, and the present individual. If this 
idea be correct, then, O. violacea is a native of South, as 
well as of North America. The Oxauis elegans and lati- 
Jolia of Humsoxpr and Kunrn, are both nearly allied to our 
plant. ' 
one 1. Calyx with its Stamens and Pistil, 2. Stamens and Pistil —Mag- 
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