of the stem, as well as the partial petioles and the veins of 
the leaf, purple and glabrous: partial petioles bordered by 
the decurrent leaflets. Peduncles (four inches long) solitary, 
axillary, longer than the leaves, purple, glabrous, thicken- 
ing upwards, pendulous. Calyx (an inch and a quarter 
long) persisting ; spur horizontal, fleshy, dull purple on 
the outside, yellow within, nectariferous, conical, till to- 
wards its apex, when it is contracted, thinner, and somewhat 
shrivelled, the apex being ovato-acute, fleshy and erect ; 
limb (seven lines and a half across) five-parted, green, 
brighter and spotted or streaked with deep purple within, 
segments ovato-acute, the uppermost the narrowest, the 
two next to it the broadest. Petals two, small, roundish, 
subunguiculate, reflected, bright vermillion-coloured, in- 
serted into the throat of the calyx on each side of the upper 
segment. Stamens eight, longer than the calyx-segments ; 
filaments subulate, declined, closely streaked or spotted 
with purple, in the bud erect, turned out between the calyx- 
segments after the pollen is shed; anthers four-sided, ob- 
long, truncated above and below, green; pollen green. 
Germen yellow, glabrous. Style yellow, three-sided, shorter 
than the stamens. Stigmas three, acute, diverging. Fruit 
tricoccous, glabrous, even. 
~ Of this plant Mr. Neu received at his garden at Canon- 
mills a tuber, gathered by Mr. Tweens, in 1829 ; it pushed 
out some feeble shoots, and is still plump and alive, though 
growing feebly ; thus settling a question of which De Can- 
DOLLE was doubtful,—that the species is perennial. A cut- 
ting taken from it, and growing vigorously, flowered most 
freely, in the greenhouse for the first time, during June and 
July, 1832, and will probably ripen its seeds. From Mr. 
Tweenie I have excellent native specimens, gathered in 
hedges near Buenos Ayres. Its taste is very similar to that 
of TrorpzoLum majus, but less pungent, and not so agree- 
able. Graham. 
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3, Pistil: magnified. 
