- A considerable approach to this structure is dedtstied by Kunth in 
othia 
Klaprot 
The subject of the present plate, known in our gardens as Loasa 
lateritia, cannot, unfortunately, retain that name; firstly, because 
another very different species was previously published under that de- 
nomination, by Gillies and Arnott, (see Hooker’s Botanical Miscellany, 
v. 3, p. 330,) and secondly, because the group to which it belongs 
proves, on examination, to be separated from the mass of Loase by 
characters of sufficient importance to adopt the genus Caiophora, first 
proposed for it by Pres] in the Reliquiz Henkeane, though originally 
indicated by Jussieu, in the fifth volume of the Annales de Museum. 
The chief point is the dehiscence of the capsule, which opens by 
spiral longitudinal slits, instead of soe the — terminal valves of 
Loasa. In this respect it to which some have 
suggested that it should be united; but in the latter, the nearly five- 
celled ovarium, and the perfectly fve-called fungose fruit, are anoma- 
lies in the Order which are certainly of generic importance, and are 
further confirmed by a peculiar habit, arising chiefly from the pal- 
mately-lobed leaves, bracteate peduncles, and white flowers. Many of 
these particulars are an approach to Cucurbitacex, but the flowers 
and seeds are undoubtedly those of Loasacez 
Besides this species, the genus Caiophora comprehends four or five 
South American plants, from the Cordilleras of South Peru and 
Chile, and South Western districts of Brazil. 
InrRopucTION; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. Found by Mr. 
Tweedie of Buenos Ayres, in the mountains of Tucuman; it was by 
him transmitted to the Glasgow Botanical Garden in 1836. [t has 
since then become plentiful, as it is found to be almost hardy, flowers 
in great profusion nearly the whole year round, and ripens its seed in 
abundance. Specimens, growing in the open air against a wall in the 
Botanic Garden of Glasgow; and others without even that protection, 
trained on an open trellis work: in the garden of James Hunter, Esq. 
of Hafton, near Dunoon, were last October in the greatest possible 
beauty, the petals having acquired a much richer hue than is usually 
the case in our greenhouses. Our drawing was made from a plant 
which we put out against a wall in May, where it grew, in the course 
the summer, to = height of nearly twenty feet, and flowered most 
luxuriantly. 
DERIVATION OF THE etna 
CatorHora from caw to burn, and ¢gopog bearing, in allusion, probably, to 
the stinging nature of the faite which the’ plants hear. Larerttta brick- 
coloured. 
Syn si : 
Loasa LateRITIA. Hooker: Silane Mein t. 3632, not of Gillies. 
