OF LA FEROUSE. 44f 



We had travelled over a foil entirely covered 

 with lands, where we had found vaft ipots abfo* 

 lutely deftitute of verdure. I faw with fur- 

 prife, on thefe diftant fhores, the grafs known 

 by the name of ffinij ex fquarrofus, and I again ad- 

 mired the facility with which the plants that 

 grow by the fea-flde are lpread to prodigious dif- 

 tances. 



In thefe barren fpots grew 3 beautiful plant, 

 which has an affinity to the iricjes, and which 

 is naturally clafled next to the dilatris and argo- 

 lajia genera ; it forms, however, a new and 

 very diftinct genus, principally on account of its 

 irregular corolla. 



I defignate it by the name of anigozantJios. 



The flowers have no calyx. 



The corolla prelents the form of a tube, di- 

 vided on its margins into fix unequal parts, re- 

 curved inwardly ; it is covered with reddifh 

 hairs. 



The flamina, fix in number, are attached un- 

 derneath the divifions of the corolla, which is 

 placed on the germen. 



The ftyle is iimple t as well as the fligma. 



The capfule is nearly fpherical, and of the 

 fame colour as the flower by which it is fur- 

 niountedj it is trilocular ; the cells are filled 

 with a great number of angulated feeds. 



The 



