Mr. J. Miers on the genus Franciscea. 249 
glanduloso-pruinoso vestitis, apice utrinque, costa, nervisque 
subtus prominulis, rubro-violaceis; floribus subsolitariis, corolle 
limbo magno, undulato-crispato, flavo, tubo ochroleuco calyce 
12-16-ies longiore—In Antillis, v. v. in hort. Kew. cult. 
The leaves of this species are 8 inches long, 22 inches broad, 
on a thick and deeply channeled petiole less than half an inch 
in length. The peduncle is } inch long, the calyx 23 to 3 lines, 
cleft half-way into five obtuse erect teeth witli ciliate margins : the 
tube of the corolla is 23 inches long, 2 lines in diameter, swelling 
below the mouth to a width of nearly half an inch ; the border is 
much expanded, and is 2} inches in diameter*. 
FRANCISCEA. 
Having offered under the preceding head, the reasons that 
appear to justify the separation of Franciscea from Brunsfelsia, I 
now give the amended character of the former, as contrasted with 
the latter genus. 
FrancisczA, Pohl. (char. emend.).—Calyz inflato-tubulosus, ore 
obliquo, 5-dentato. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo angustato, 
apice dorso subinflato, fauce in oram valde prominulam obli- 
quam constricto, limbo obliquo, rotato, expanso, ultra medium 
5-fido, lobis inzequalibus, rotundatis, integris, superiore max- 
imo, zstivatione quincuncialiter imbricatis, smubus introflexis. 
Stamina 4, didynama, inclusa, brevia, infra dilatationem tubi per 
paria inserta, 2 longiora infra lobum maximum et superiorem 
sita; filamenta carnosula, compressa, corrugata, apice inflexa ; 
anthere reniformes, compress, sinu aflixee, 1-loculares, rima 
marginali 2-valvatim hiantes, receptaculo pollinifero globoso in 
sinu conspicuo. Ovarium obovatum, glandulo carnoso stipitato 
imo cinctum, 2-loculare, placentis carnosis, prominentibus, 
dissepimento utrinque adnatis, multiovulatis. Stylus filiformis, 
apice valde incrassatus et inflexus. Stigma 2-labiatum, lobis 
brevibus, crassiusculis, obtusis, intus glandulosis. Capsula 
ovata, calyce persistente inclusa, coriacea, 2-valvis, 2-locularis, 
valvis placenta demum libera parallelis. Semina pauca, ma- 
juscula, oblonga, subangulata, dorso convexa, hilo ventrali, 
conspicuo, cavo: testa reticulato-foveolata. Embryo hilo con- 
trarius, in axi albuminis carnosi incurvus, cotyledonibus ovatis, 
compressis, radicula tereti gracili mfera triplo brevioribus et 
2-plo latioribus.—Suffrutices Brasilienses et Peruviani. Folia 
alterna, integerrima, oblonga. Cyme terminales, dense capitu- 
leformes vel laxius pauciflore, rarius ad florem unicum redacte ; 
* This species with generic details will be delineated in ‘ Illustr. South 
Amer. Plants,’ plate 56. 
