30 DiDYNAMiA ANGiosPERMiA. Aegenetiu, 



margins finely dentate ; the upper two less deeply separated, 

 of such a charming- deep violet that no artist can possibly do 

 justice to the brilliancy of this flower. Stamens hid within the 

 tube. Filaments nearly equal, smooth, the interior pair re- 

 curved over the posterior. An/hers, all the four firndy con- 

 nected, the interior pair supported by the posterior pair of 

 filaments; enlarged by a long horizontal fleshy appendage, 

 into which the filaments are inserted. Germ ovate. Style 

 shorter than the tube of the corol. Slif/ma broad-cordate, 

 peltate. Capsule ovate, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds very 

 numerous, very minute. Receptacles two pair, adjoined to 

 the opposite sides of the capsule, ramous. 



AEGENETIA. Roxh. 

 Calyx; spa^/ie one-leaved. Coro/ campanulate. Capsule 

 one-celled, with various convolute receptacles; seeds numer- 

 ous. 



A. hidica. Willd. iW. 347. R. Corom.pl. 1. ^o. 91. 



Tsjem Cumulu. Rheed. Alal. xi. t. 47. 



Orobanche Ae/feneckia. sp. p. 883. 



A small, rush- like, naked, annual plant, a native of the hilly 

 parts of the Ci rears. 



Root a number of fleshy fibres, smooth, perfectly naked, 

 intricately interwoven. Scales several, straight, round, ex- 

 cept inimediately at their base, where each is involved in a 

 small sheath, about a foot long, one-flowered. Leaves none. 

 Floicers large; of an elegant purple colour. Calyx ; spathe 

 oblong, pointed, opening length ways on one side. Corol 

 one-petalled, with the bottom of the tube erect, pitcher-form- 

 ed above, bent out through the spathe, horizontally gibbous; 

 border five-parted ; divisions equal, rounded. Filaments 

 four. Anthers twin, united by pairs. Germ ovate. Style 

 bent to correspond with the form of the corol, and the 

 length thereof. Stujma headed. Capsule ovate, pointed. 



