Mr D. Don on the Characters of Danv'mia, <^c. 85 



BRUNSFELSIA. 



A comparison of the structure and habit of Brunsfelsia and 

 Frariciscea appears fully to justify the propriety of uniting 

 them under one generic denomination. The habit alone, inde- 

 pendent of minuter characters, would seem sufficient to indicate 

 to the most superficial obsen-er the intimate affinity existing be- 

 tween these plants. Dr Pohl has referred his genus to the 

 Scrophularin/e, and compares it with BrowalUa, without even 

 adverting to any probable affinity between it and Brunsfelsia ; 

 but, judging from his descriptions and figures, it seems probable 

 that Dr Pohl had not seen the perfect fruit ; and this circum- 

 stance may account for his overlooking the real affinities of 

 Franciscea, of several species of which I have had an opportu- 

 nity of examining dried samples, and of one species, namely, the 

 F. Hopeana of the Botanical Magazine, but which does not ap- 

 pear to differ specifically from Dr Pohl's F. uniflora, in a living 

 state ; and I beg to subjoin the following description of the parts 

 of fructification, taken from a plant of this species in the choice 

 i'oJlection of the Comtesse de Vandes at Bayswater. 



BRUNSFELSIA UNIFLORA. 



FRANCISCEA UNIFLORA, Fohl. Bras. i. p. 2. I. I. 



F. HOPEANA, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 2829. 



Sysl. Linn. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Ord. Nat. SOLAN EiE, Juss. 



Calyx tubulosiis, laxus, cartilagineus, 5-dentatus : fauce paruin ventricosa: 

 dentibiis ovatis acutis, conniventibus. Corolla hypocraterifbrmis : tubus in- 

 feme pentagonus, calycem longitudine j)arum excedens : /<««■ prominula : 

 Hmbus patens, 5-lobus : lobis subrotundis, integris, jilanis, a;stivatione im- 

 bricatis, deiiium flaccidis. Stamina^!, didjnama, absque quiuti rudimento : 

 jUamenta glabra, coroUre tubo fere omnino adhaerentia apicibus tantum so- 

 lutis : nntherir. bilobse, lobis apice confluentibus, hinc uniloculares ! fissura 

 uniea dehiscentes. Ovarium biloculare, annulo carnoso basi cinctuni : 

 sqplo contrario, placentifero : ovuUs indefinitis, ovalibus, Isevibiis, curvulis, 

 hinc embryo (si nobis conjectare licet) verisimiliter curvatus. Friictus 

 malurus nonduni vidi. Stylus comi)rcssus, glaber, superne lalior, clavatus. 

 Stiyma nutans, bilabiato-ringens : lobis (styli angulorum continuatio) eras- 

 sis, obtusis, iniEqualibus, glandula (stigma varum), magna, carnosa, niinu. 

 tissinie papillusa, niadida interjectis ; loho inferiorc minore. 



