small mucro, of equal length, furnished at the base with a — 
scale-like appendix. Stamens included: anthers linear. 
Germen, triangular, 3-celled, with many ovula. Style the 
length of the stamens : stigmas 3, twisted together. . 
rom WILLDENow’s description of Prrcarrnia furfuracea, 
in his Enumeration of the plants in the Berlin Garden, our 
present subject appears to be most probably the same spe- 
cies, but it is certainly not the Pourreria pyramidata of 
the Flora Peruviana, of which Kunra, in his Synopsis, 
makes WILLDENow’s Apy, eoa asynonym. It is doubt- 
less a true Prrcarnia, having the scalé-like appendix at 
the base of the petals ; but even if these were wanting, we 
could by no means consent to separate this plant from the 
genus to which we have referred it. aL 
The plant from which our drawing was taken was com- 
municated by Mr. Buaxz, in August, 1819, from the late 
Mr. Vere’s collection at Kensington Gore. It is a native 
_ of South America, Cultivated here in the stove. 
