Mr, Young'/ Defer iption of a new Species of Opercular la, 31 



Provenit anno 1793 a P U( i celeberrimum Curtifium, ex humo e 



Nova Hollandia allata ; ille cultori eximio Fairbairnio tradidit, 



quo curante nunc in tepidario horti Chelfeiani floret, menfe Julio 



et Augufto 1794. 



Radix perennis, fibrofa. 



Caulis herbaceus, quatuor pedes altus, craflitudine infra digitum 

 auricularem, ereclus, obfolete tetragonus, glaber, fubftriatus, ra- 

 mofus, viridis, fufco ftriatus : rami oppofiti patentes. 



Folia oppofita, patentia, feflilia, ovato-lanceolata, integerrima, acuta, 

 aliquando acuminata, glabra, viridia. 



Stipule laterales, juxta paria fingula foliorum bina?, bipartite: la- 

 ciniis divaricatis, reflexis, fubulatis, vireicentibus ; ietas fubternas 

 fufcas gerentes. 



Flores aggregati, terminales, pedunculati : pedunculo floi is longi- 

 tudine, folitarii, primo erecli, nuptiarum tempore cernui, pofiremo 

 iterum erecti, qua bipartitur caulis prodeuntes. 



Calyx communis hexaphyllus, foliolis patentiinmis, fubulatis : 

 duobus oppofitis longioribus, inque bracteas aliquando dilatatis, 

 ut calyx par fummum foliorum cum ftipulis imitetur, pallide 

 virefcens. Perianthium proprium e paleis receptaculi, fuperum, 

 triphyllum : foliolis curvis, fetaceo-fubulatis, perfiftens, pallide 

 virefcens, demum apice fufcum, corolla paulo brevius. 



Corolla univerfalis sequalis, fubvigintiflora ; propria monopetala, 

 quadrifida, ante nuptias ovata, capfulam mentiens, deinde cam- 

 panulata laciniis revolutis, minute pilofa, decidua, pallide vire- 

 fcens, apice rubicunda. 



Stamina : Filamenta quatuor filiformia, corolla duplo longiora re- 

 ceptaculo inferta, antherarum dorfo incumbentia, pallide vire- 

 fcentiaj Antheras oblongas, bafi emarginatoe, biloculares, longi- 

 tudinal iter 



