Mr. J. Miers on the genus Franciscea. 249 



glanduloso-pruinoso vestitis, apice utrinque, costa, nervisque 

 subtusprorainulis,rubro-violaceis; floribus subsolitariis, coroUse 

 limbo magno, uridulato-crispato, flavo, tubo ochroleuco calyce 

 12-16-ies longiore. — In ADtillis, v. v. in hort. Kew. cult. 



The leaves of this species are 8 inches long, 2| inches broad, 

 on a thick and deeply channeled petiole less than half an inch 

 in length. The peduncle is | inch long, the calyx 2^ to 3 lines, 

 cleft half-way into five obtuse erect teeth with ciliate margins : the 

 tube of the corolla is 2| 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 2J inches in diameter*. 



Franciscea. 



Having ofiPered under the preceding head, the reasons that 

 appear to justify the separation of Franciscea from Brunsfelsiay I 

 now give the amended character of the former, as contrasted with 

 the latter genus. 



Franciscea, Pohl. (char, emend.). — Ca/y/r inflato-tubulosus, ore 

 obliquo, 5-dentato. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo angustato, 

 apice dorso subinflato, fauce m oram valde prominulam obli- 

 quam constricto, limbo obliquo, rotato, expanso, ultra medium 

 5-fido, lobis insequalibus, rotundatis, integris, superiore max- 

 imo, asstivatione quincuncialiter imbricatis, sinubus introflexis. 

 /S^^amma4,didynama, inclusa, brevia, infra dilatationem tubi per 

 paria inserta, 2 longiora infra lobum maximum et superiorem 

 sita ; filamenta carnosula, compressa, corrugata, apice inflexa ; 

 anther (B reniformes, compressse, sinu affixse, 1-loculares, rima 

 marginali 2-valvatim hiantes, receptaculo poUinifero 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, cotyledon ibus ovatis, 

 compressis, radicula tereti gracili infera triplo brevioribus et 

 2-plo latioribus. — Suffrutices Brasilienses et Peruviani. Folia 

 alterna, integerrima, oblonga. Cymse terminales^ dense capitu- 

 Iceformes vel laxius paucifloree, rarius adflorem unicum redactce ; 



* This species with generic details will be delineated in ' Illustr. South 

 Amer. Plants/ plate 56. 



