the calyx., slightly inflated towards the top,, and compressed 

 vertically, glanduloso-villous, greenish-yellow, marked, as 

 well as the calyx, with dark streaks; limb plicate in the 

 bud, when expanded flat, white, or very pale lilac, with a 

 yellow throat, yellow on the outside, bilabiate, the upper 

 lip linear and emarginate, the lower much larger, semicir- 

 cular, formed of four united, obcordato-cuneate lobes, each 

 smaller than the upper lip. Stamens didynamous, adhering 

 to the inside of the tube, the two longer ones closing the 

 throat of the corolla with the upper part of their filaments, 

 which is bent down, flattened and hairy above, their anthers 

 included, having one perfect and one abortive lobe, divari- 

 cated, compressed, and opening along their upper edge ; 

 filaments of the shorter stamens flexuose at the top, filiform 

 and smooth, their anthers bilobular, both the lobes perfect, 

 divaricated and compressed, bursting along their upper 

 edges ; pollen and anthers of all the stamens yellow. Ger- 

 men ovate, and slightly compressed, pubescent, bilocular, 

 bivalvular, the dissepiment proceeding from the centre of 

 the valves across the shorter diameter of the germen ; semi- 

 nal receptacle large, central, covered with numerous ovules. 

 Style filiform, glabrous, longer than the shorter, shorter 

 than the longer stamens, tortuose at the top. Stigma qua- 

 drangular, peltate, green, obscurely four-lobed, having two 

 depressions or cells in the upper margin, where the anthers 

 of the longer stamens are lodged, and two obscure depres- 

 sions on the lower side, where the anthers of the shorter 

 stamens appear to be placed. 



I am indebted to Dr. Hooker for the description of the style 

 and stigma, and for some observations regarding the anthers, for 

 the style was lost in the only flower which I reserved for dissection, 

 when the specimen was sent to him to be figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine. The anthers on the longer and shorter stamens ap- 

 peared to him to be alike, reniform, and one-celled ; but I am 

 quite certain that the above description of what I saw is accurate: 

 the appearance probably varying from abortion. 



We received this plant from the Botanic Garden, Glasgow, in 

 October last, having been raised there from seeds collected by Mr. 

 Crcckshanks, near Yazo, in the valley of Canta, in Peru. It is 

 now (December) flowering very freely in the greenhouse, and 

 probably will be found to bear cultivation as a very ornamental 

 annual in the open border. Graham. 



The plant figured in the Botanical Register above quoted, has 

 the flowers considerably smaller and the leaves more cordate than 

 in Dr. Graham's, and appears to be raised from seeds of another 

 kind of Browallia, in Mr. Cruckshanks' Herbarium, which I 

 have rather been disposed to consider as B. demissa. 



Fig. 1. Portion of the Corolla with Stamens and the upper part of the Style. 2. An 

 upper Stamen. 3. A lower ditto. 4. Anthers of a lower Stamen. 5. Pistil. »• 

 Stigma. 7. Section of the Germen .—Magnified, 



