of the tube. Calyx altogether inferior, five-partite, the 
segments lanceolate, small, appressed to the base of the 
corolla. Stamens included within the tube of, the corolla. 
Anthers purple, connate, fringed at the top with white 
hairs. Germen ovate, green, superior. Style a little longer 
than the stamens : Stigma capitate, two lobed. 
This beautiful plant has many points in common with 
Lose.ia coronopifolia, especially in the leaves; but we 
think the flowers will afford sufficient marks of distinction. 
The L. coronopifolia is given in Num. 644 of this work, and 
seems to differ only from the true plant of Burmen, Afr. 
t. 38. f. 1. in having two flowers instead of one upon the 
stalk. Our plant has almost constantly four flowers upon 
the peduncle, and those, not only very different in colour 
from L. coronopifolia, but also having the segments of the 
corolla much larger, longer than the tube, and much more 
spreading. 
Our plant has the germen constantly superior, as, indeed, 
has the L. coronopifolia, not a trace of it being to be seen 
below the point of the insertion of the calyx. Mr. Brown 
has observed in his Prodromus, that some suffruticose 
African species have the capsule more than half superior. 
Native of Southern Africa : and cultivated in the green- 
house of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, as well as in that of 
Edinburgh. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Stamens, including the Style and 
Stigma. 3. Pistil, with the Calyx.—Magnified. ; 
