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nosa, rubicunda cinctum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, 

 basin versus lanosus, albidus. Stigma capitatum, sulca- 

 tum, viride. {Gillies MSS.) Bacca oblonga, apiculata. 

 Semina majuscula, margiiiata. Embryo albumine im- 

 mersus, elongatus, filiformi-cylindraceus, subspiraliter 



curvatus. 



Although upon a very much smaller scale, this species of 

 Atropahas a considerable affinity with oxxvAtropa Belladonna: 

 the same general mode of growth, and the same shaped 

 ' solitary flowers. Here, however, the stamens are placed 

 much higher up in the tube of the corolla, and the inside of 

 the tube and the middle of the style have a belt of woolly 

 hairs. Among the South American species that have been 

 described, our plant comes the nearest to AtrojM bijlora of 

 Ruiz and Pavon; but that has frutescent stems, flowers 

 thrice as large, and hairy on the outside, with the stamens 



d 



D 



from which the accompanying figure is made, but also 

 for a description made from the living plant in its native 

 country. 



f 



Fig. 1, Flower. Fig. 2, Interior of the corolla. Fig- 3, 

 Pistil, inserted into its annular gland. Fig. 4, Berry : 

 natnral size. Fig. 5, Seed. Fig. 6, Section of do., 

 showing the embryo and albumen. Fig. 7, Embryo : 

 all but ^g. 4 more or less magnified. 



[TAB. XXXVIIL] 



BRACHYMENIUM PULCHRUM 



Cryptogamia Musci. Nat. Ord. Musci. 



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