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SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 3 



The plant appears to grow to the height of a foot, its herbaceous 

 stem being erect and simple, rarely showing one or two lateral branch- 

 lets out of the axils. The leaves measure from 1^ to If inch long, 

 and 7 to 10 lines in breadth, the mid-rib and margins being dccurrent 

 on the angles of the leaf. A very sHort peduncle springs laterally 

 from the point of insertion of the leaf, and exhibits two fleshy cupuli- 

 form glands, one a Httle above the other, and out of which arise the 

 more slender pedicels, about five lines long, which are deflected ; the 

 calyx is four lines in length, and divided nearly to its base into some- 

 what acute segments, which in fruit grow to a length of six lines, and 

 envelope the berry. The corolla, seven lines long, is campanular, 

 somewhat obliq^ue, the lobes of its border short and rounded, the two 

 higher ones with the shorter stamen being exterior ; the length of the 

 perigynous ring is one line, the filaments half a line, and the erect an- 

 thers two lines, these burst in front, not only by nearly apical pores 

 but by longitudinal fissm-es ; the dorsal connective is extended beyond 

 thp. anther cells, and appears like two short erect teeth. The berr>- forms 



lobular indehiseent capsule, quite devoid of pulp, the pericarp and 

 — :^ — *. K«i'^«. xroT^r tnATYi^rnnnnfmiQ nrtd fiboiit five liues ill diamc- 



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ter. It contains four, generally six or eight seeds, which are very 



reniform 



with a deep narrow sinus about the hilum, and are two Imes m diameter ; 

 the testa is remarkably favose, the ridges being prominent and crenu- 

 lated; the embryo, enveloped in albumen, is terete, somewhat spiral, 

 with the point of the radicle directed towards the basal angle. The 



plant has the peculiar smell of musk.* 



2. Triguera 



ovato-lanceolatis, intcgerrimis 



•Planta tota glabra, foliis 

 bus vix decurrentibus, 



l^vibus, pedunculo calyceque glabris; corolla pallide violacca, 



ovarium 



Prov. Andalusise. 



This species is represented as being altogether glabrous, with a 

 simple stem only six inches high, the leaves quite entire, and scarcely 

 dccurrent on the stem ; the flowers are said to be larger and more 

 handsome, with a somewhat shorter coroUa; the whole plant is quite 

 inodorous. 



* A drawing of this species with sectional details nill be given in a Supple- 

 mentary Plate in vol. ii. 111. So. Anier. Plants. 



