LXVIIL 
CASTALIA PYGMAZA. 
Small Castalia. 
Ordinem Naturalem et Characterem Generis vide sub, No. 14.° 
oe ee eee 
a» Lamine foliorum usque ad petiolum fiss@. 
C. foliorum lobis parum acuminatis: toro modioliformi: petalis 12-14, exterioribus vix polli- 
cem longis: stigmate 7-8-radiato. 
Sponte nascitur forsan in China. 
Floret apud nos a Junio in Septembrem. 
A new species, hitherto cultivated in our stoves, but which may possibly succeed in the open 
air, for it ripened seeds early i June in that of Charles Walsham, Esq. at Whetstone, where 
the drawing was made, I afterwards saw it at Kew in greater perfection, with many flowe 
expanded at the same time, one of which is described below, my liberal friend Mr. Aiton 
gathering the specimen almost before I could ask for it; nor am I less indebted to Mr. Baner 
for shewing me his inimitable dissections of the germinating Emb 
the plumule, as in Trope@olum, Corylus, Quercus. 
ny yet discovered: Petiole slender, round, smooth: Lamina dark 
3 i diam 
e C. 
forated longitudinally with 4 tubes. Torus yellowish green, shaped 
like the nave of a wheel, slightly 4-angular. Calyx green with tl inside wht 
i as i species. Petals 12 to 14, white 
c 
yellow ; its divisions or rays J e th 
bent inwards, broad, lanceolate, obtuse ; pubescent on the disc as far as a little beyond the: 
divisions, and there only imbibing the feecundating fluid of the Pollen. -Nectarium more oblong 
than in the others. 
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE, 
1. A Pistil natural size, the calyx petals and stamens being pulled off 
2. One of the outermost and innermost stamens magnifies 
