It flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it is 
treated as a greenhouse plant, in the month of September 
of the present year (1834). It has a very extensive range 
in its native country among the Andes of Chili, and appears 
to be liable to considerable variation, especially in the con- 
figuration of the corona. 
Descr. Stem annual (?) a foot or a foot and a half high, 
in our specimens panicled above, clothed, as is every part 
of the herbage, with glandular pubescence. Leaves about 
two or three inches long, linear, obtuse, toothed, recurved, 
having what appear to me a pair of tripartite stipules at the 
base, although authors characterize the foliage as exstipu- 
late. Panicle of several large, delicate, but not highly 
coloured flowers. Perianth greenish-purple, glandular, 
striated ; the tube elongated, dilated upwards ; the mouth 
crowned in our specimens with an interrupted, annular 
membrane ; the limb ten-cleft, spreading, of which the five 
outer segments, which alone seem to belong to the calyx, 
are ovate, the five inner ones or petals roundish-rhomboidal, 
subunguiculate, nerved, pale purplish-blue. Stamens and 
pistil stipitate. Filaments five, exserted. Anthers oblong, 
dark purple. Ovary 3—4-lobed, woolly, bearing a long, 
filiform style on the summit of each lobe. 
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Fig. 1. Portion of the Stem and Leaf with Stipules: nat. size. 2. Portion — 
of the Perianth. 3. Stipitate Stamens and Pistil. 4, Germen with the 
bases of the Stamens and Style. Magnified. ; 
