PLATE XL. 



CHELONE CAMPANULOIDES. 



Bell-flowered Chelone. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER II. 

 DIDYNJMU JNGIOSPERMIJ. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 



Calyx 5-partitus. Rudimentum filamenti quinti 

 inter fuprema ftamina. Capfula bilocula- 

 ris. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Empalement of five divifions. The rudiment 



of a fifth thread is found placed between 

 the upper chives. Capfule of two cells. 

 See Plate XXXIV. Chelone Rvellioides. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Chelone foliis oppofitis, feffilibus, acuminatis, 

 profunde ferratis; corollis campanulatis, 

 purpureis. 



Chelone with oppofite leaves fitting clofe to the 

 ftem, tapering to the point, and deeply 

 fawed; bloffoms bell-fhaped, and purple. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Bloffom cut open, to fhew the lituation of the four Chives, and ftation of the fifth imperfedt 



thread. 



2. The Pointal, (natural fize). 



3. The Seed-veifel, with the Empalement and Shaft ftill remaining attached. 



This fpecies of Chelone is of the fame date in our gardens as the Chelone Ruellioides, and was intro. 

 duced through the fame medium : it is a native of Mexico in South America ; will make a pretty 

 addition to our greenhoufe exotics; and isdefcribed and engravedbyA.J.Cavanilles, in his firft volume 

 of Spanifh plants. It feems to thrive beft in rich, dung}' earth, and is eafily propagated by cuttings, 

 or feeds; of which latter it produces abundance; but does not appear to be long lived. The plant 

 from which this figure was taken, flowered (as we fuppofe for the firft time in England) in the col- 

 lection of B. Robertfon, Efq. of Stockwell in Surry, and kindly communicated by him to the author. 



