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tube of the corolla is 2| inches long, 2 lines in diameter, sv^relling 

 below the mouth to a width of nearly half an inch : the border is 

 much expanded, and is 2^ inches in diameter*. 



Franciscea. 



. Having offered under the preceding head, the reasons that 

 appear to justify the separation of Franciscea from Brunsfelsia I 

 now give the amended character of the former, as contrasted with 

 the latter genus. 



Franciscea, Pohl. (char, emend.).— Ca/y.rinflato-tubuIosus, ore 

 obliquo, 5.dentato. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo angustato 

 apice dorso subinflato, fauce in oram valde prominulam obli- 

 quam constricto, limbo obliquo, rotato, expanso, ultra medium 

 5-tido, lobis insequahbus, rotundatis, integris, superiore max- 

 imo, sestivatione quincunciahter imbricatis, sinubus introflexis 

 Stanfl4,didynama, inclusa, brevia, infra dHatationem tubi per 

 paria mserta, 2 longiora infra lobum maximum et superiorem 

 sita ; filamenta carnosula, compressa, corrugata, apice inflexa • 

 anthera reniformes, compress^, sinu affixse, l-loculares, rima 

 marginal! 2-valvatim hrantes, receptaculo pollinifero globoso in 

 sinu conspicuo. Ovarium obovatum, glandulo carnoso stipitato 

 imo cinctum, 2-loculare, placentis carnosis, prominentibus, 

 dissepimento utrinque adnatis, multiovulatis. Stylus filiformis, 

 apice valde incrassatus et inflexus. Stigma 2-labiatum, lobis 

 brevibus, crassiusculis, obtusis, intus glandulosis. Capsula 

 ovata, calyce persistente inclusa, coriacea, 2-valvis, 2-locularis, 

 yalvis placenta demum libera parallehs. Semina pauca, ma- 

 juscula, oblonga, subangulata, dorso convexa, hilo ventrali, 

 conspicuo, cavo : testa reticulato-foveolata. Embryo hilo con- 

 trarius, in axi albuminis carnosi incurvus, cotyledonibus ovatis, 

 compressis, radicula tereti gracili infera triplo brevioribus et 

 2-plo latioribus.— SuflFrutices Brasilienses et Peruviani. Folia 

 alterna, integerrima, oblonga. Cymae terminales, dense capitu- 

 laformes vel laxius pauciflorce, rarius adjlorem unicum redacta ; 

 bracteae parva : flores speciosi, violacei, interdum pallidiores, 

 corolliB tubo calyce subaquante, rarius 2-4i-plo longiore f. 



1. Franciscea macrophylla, Cham. Schl. Linn. ii. 601. 

 2- hydrangaformis, Pohl. PI. Bras. i. 7. tab. 7. 



3- capitata. Brunsfelsia capitata, Bth., DC. Prodr. 



x. 198. 



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