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Browallia grandiflora. Large- 

 flowered Browallia. 



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Class and Order. 

 Did yn ami a Angiospermia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Scrophularin,e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. tubulosus, 5-tidus. Cor. tubo apice subinflato, limbo 

 hypocrateriformi, lobis subaequalibus. Stam. inclusa. An- 

 therce inaequales. Caps. 2-locularis, 2-valvis. Spr. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Browallia* grandiflora; caule diffuso ramoso, foliis ovatjs 

 acutis, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris vel in racemis 

 terminalibus dispositis, ramulis calycibusque adultis 

 glabris. 



Browallia grandiflora. Bot. Reg. t. 1384? Graham in 

 Edin. Phil. Journ. Dec. 1830. 



Descr. Annual. Stem herbaceous, diffused, branched, 

 smooth, green, purplish below; branches spreading, smooth 

 and shining, scattered. Leaves ovate, acuminate, atten- 

 uated into a petiole, smooth and shining, the middle rib 

 and converging veins prominent below, and channelled 

 above. Peduncles straight, single-flowered, axillary, and 

 longer than the diminished leaves near the termination ot 

 the branches, or collected into lax, terminal racemes, 

 when young glanduloso - pubescent. Calyx five-cleft, 

 smooth, or, when young, glanduloso-villous, many-nerved, 

 nerves branching; segments unequal, spreading, linear, 

 channelled. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube longer than 



. * Named after John Browam,, a Swede, Bishop of Abo in 1743. The 

 intimacy and subsequent rupture between Browall and Linn^us, were 

 commemorated by the latter in the specific appellations winch he bestowed on 

 the only three individuals of the Genus then known. B. data expresses the 

 degree of their union ; B. demissa, its cessation; while the ambiguous name ot 

 «• third species, B. alienata, while it intimates the uncertain characters ol 

 tll c plant, implies also the subsequent difference between the parties. 



