384 Mr. Lindley on a new Genus of Plants 



linear, obtuse, about five lines long and three-quarters of a 

 line broad, so closely covered with hairs like those of the 

 stem, that the whole epidermis is hidden. Their veins are 

 concealed by the hairs; but if the latter are removed, they 

 appear to consist of a thickened liiid-rib, land a few nearly 

 simple spreading vense primariai. The flowers, proceed from 

 the axillae of the upper leaves, from three to six on each little 

 branch ; at first they are sessile, but their foot-stalks subse- 

 quently lengthen by degrees until the fruit is ripe, when they 

 are from three-quarters of an inch to one inch in length_, and 

 covered with the same sort of hairs as the leaves and stem. 

 The calyx is hairy in like manner, obconical, angular, with 

 five equal erect narrowly triangular teeth, about the length of 

 the tube. The corolla is of a vivid purple colour, infundibuli- 

 form, wholly destitute of pubescence ; the tube is a little 

 ventricose and rather longer than the calyx, its whole length 

 being about three lines; the limb is spreading, five-pajted 

 with cuneate, oblong, obtuse, segments ; the orifice is guarded 

 by five transversely linear calli, placed under each sinus, and 

 corresponding to the same number of external depressions 

 of the neck of the tube. The anthers are linear oblong, 

 nearly sessile, opposite the segments of the corolla, and a little 

 enclosed within the tube. The ovarium is superior, of an 

 obovate figure, one-celled, with a central, free, fungillifbrm 

 placenta, the lower edge of which has five teeth corresponding 

 to an equal number of peltate ovula ; the style is fihform, as 

 long as the tube of the corolla, and continuous with the 

 ovarium; stigma, a ntiinute depressed cup. The capsule is 

 of a cartilaginous texture, surrounded by the persistent calyx; 

 one-celled, with five recurving valves ; the seeds are two, peltate, 

 oblong, convex on the outside, concave in the inside, dark 

 brown, covered closely with minute dots or depressions ; four 

 only having been founds their internal organization has not 

 been determined. '^^ ^^^' ^J l'*>bjir»o^r:>b hi^d ^i ^^-^mi itdiinl 



Hence it appears that, with the exception of the interior of 

 the seed, the whole structure of the plant is determinable: 

 it is also obvious that it is referable to Primulacese, of which it 

 possesses all the characters. In fact it is closely akin both to 

 Primula and Androsace. From both these genera, however^ 



