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nosa, rubicunda cinctum. Stylus filiformis, exseitus, 

 basin versus lanosus, albidus. Stigma capitatum, sulca- 

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

 Semina majuscula, marginata. Embryo albumine im- 

 mersus, elongatus, filiform i-cylindraceus, subspiraliter 

 curvatus. 



Although upon a very much smaller scale, this species of 

 Atropahas a considerable affinity with our Atropa 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 Atropa bijlora of 

 Ruiz and Pavon ; but that has frutescent stems, flowers 

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

 far more exserted. 



I am indebted to Dr. Gillies not only for the specimens 

 from which the accompanying figure is made, but also 

 for a description made from the living plant in its native 

 country. 



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

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

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

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

 all but Jig. 4 more or less magnified. 



[TAB. XXXVIII.] 



BRACHYMENIUM PULCHRUM. 



Cryptogamia Musci. Nat. Ord. Musci. 



Gen. Char. Brachymenium. Hook. Seta terminalis. Per- 



