hairy externally. Corolla aninch long or more: Tube dark red with a whitish bottom, cylins 
drical, on one side within thickly bearded with erect hairs: Limb deep scarlet, gradually chang. 
ing to alilac tinge, more than twice as long as the tube, externally slightly viscid-pubescent ; its 
lower part only a little wider than the tubé, somewhat comprest with two furrows inh front, 
where it is internally bearded above the insertion of the barren filaments, up to its mouth, in the 
same manner as the Tube is below. the insertion of the fertile filaments: its upper part horizontal 
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whitish, short, bearded on one side, barren ones very narrow. Anthers pale yellow, the upper 
lobe shorter and placed perpendicularly over the other. Pollen consisting of 3 or sometimes 4 
globular bodies confluent with a still larger central one. Pericarpium only consisting of a thi 
pellicle adhering to the seeds, but continuous with the style, so that they cannot be called naked. 
Style pale yellow, reaching to about the mouth of the limb, smooth. Stigma green, cap-shaped, 
smooth. 
The apparatus of hairs in the corolla to prevent, as I conjecture, minute insects from robbing 
the flowers of their honey, is very curious. Many botan ists, even Jussieu and Gertner, describe 
‘the seeds in several genera of this Natural Order, as naked: on this subject I must refer my 
readers to some observations in the Generic Characters of English Botany collated with those of 
Linné, p. 15. under Myosurus, which are corroborated by Monsieur Turpin’s valuable physiolo.. 
gical paper in the Jast number of the Annales du Museum @ Histoire Naturelle. 
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1, A Flower shewing the Tube. 
@. Calyx. | 
3. Part of the Corolla spread o magnified, shewing the insertion of the Filaments. 
4. A Stamen more magnified, sie ; r 
5. Pistillum. 
6. Stigma magnified. 
7. Receptacle stript of the Bractes,. 
8. | se highly magnified. 
4ransverse section of the seed vessel magnified. 
