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BROWALLIJ* grandifldra. 



Large -flowered Browallia. 



DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Nat. ord. Solane.e Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 231.) 



BROWALLIA L. — Calyx tubulosus quinquefidus. Corolla hypocra- 

 teriformis ; tubo calycem mullo superante apice inflato ; limbo piano quin- 

 quepartito subsequali : lacinia superiore (?) paulo majore. Stamina 4, 

 didynama, inclusa. Stigma subquadrilobum. Capsida bilocularis bivalvis: 

 valvis apice bifidis : dissepimento valvis parallelo demiim libero : placentis 



adnatis. Herbse alternifolice, erectce. Flores axillares, ant terminales, 



ccerulei, violacei, rarius albi.- — ^Kunth synops. 2. 129. 



B. grandijlora ; caule difFuso ramoso, foliis (cordatis) ovatis acutis, pe- 

 dunculis axillaribus unifloris v. in raceniis terminalibus dispositis, ramulis 

 calycibusqne adultis glabris. — Graham in Jainieson's journal, Dec. 1830. 

 Annua. Caules diffusi, teretes, ramosi. Folia alterna, breve petiolata, 

 cordata, ovata, obscuro-viridia. Racemi secundi, terminales, paucijlori, 

 pedunculis ebracteatis, pubesccntibus. Calyx oblongus, 5-plicatus, 5-dentatus, 

 pallidus, dentibus et costis atroviridibus. Corolla calyce dvplo longior, 

 tubo gracili Jiliformi luteo-pnrpureo apice ampliato, limbo plicato 5-lobo, sub- 

 tBqitali, paululum obliquo : laciniis eviarginatis, pri7num pallide ccEruleo, 

 mox albo, fauce luted. Stamina didynama, superiora arcuata faucem 

 corollce claudentia : Jilarnentis latis, plants, pubescentibus. Antherge lobis 

 subrotundis, altera scepius dejiciente. Discus magnits, carnosus, cyathiformis, 

 ovarii dimidiam attingens. Ovarium biloculare, placenta centrali, carnosd, 

 polyspermd. Stylus Jiliformis, corrugalus. Stigma quadratum, dilatatum, 

 subcucullatum, supra foveolis duabus altis impression. 



A beautiful little plant, apparently annual, and perhaps 

 to be preserved by cuttings ; at least this is to be hoped, 

 as it has not yet yielded seed in this country. It is a 

 native of Yazo, in Peru, where it vv^as discovered by 



* " Named by Linnceus in honour of John Browallius, Bishop of Abo, 

 who defended the sexual system against Siegesbeck, in a book entitled 

 Examen Epicriseos, Sfc, Aboce, 1739, 8vo." — London's Enc. of PlanlSf 

 p. 532. 



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