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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 1$ inch long, 
and 7 to 10 lines in breadth, the mid-rib and margins bei ing decurrent 
on the angles of the leaf. A very short peduncle springs laterally 
from the point of insertion of the leaf, and exhibits two fleshy eupuli- 
form glands, one a little 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 oblique, 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 fissures ; the dorsal connective is extended beyond 
the anther cells, and appears like two short erect teeth. The berry forms 
a globular indehiscent capsule, quite devoid of pulp, the pericarp and 
dissepiment being very membranaceous, and about five lines in diame- 
ter. It contains four, generally six or eight seeds, which are very 
large in regard to the fruit; they are compressed, somewhat reniform, 
with a deep narrow sinus about the hilum, and are two lines in 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 inodora, Cav. loc. cit. app. 3.—Planta tota glabra, foliis 
ovato-lanceolatis, integerrimis, marginibus vix decurrentibus, 
levibus, pedunculo calyceque glabris; corolla pallide violacea, 
urceolo staminifero majore, ovarium totum includente.—-Hispania, 
Prov. Andalusise. 
This species is represented as being altogether glabrous, with a 
simple stem only six inches high, the leaves quite entire, and scarcely 
decurrent on the stem; the flowers are said to be larger and more 
handsome, with a somewhat shorter corolla; the whole plant is quite 
inodorous. 
* A drawing of this species with REY details will be given in a Supple- 
mentary Plate in sa i ii. Ill. So. Amer. Pian 
