354 Bignoniacce—Eceremocar pus. 
tubular flowers. This handsome plant is usually treated as an 
annual in the open air. It is a native of Chili. 
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Fig. 195, Eccremocarpus scaber, (4 nat, size.) 
Ororr LXXX.—GESNBERACEA. 
This is a considerable order of herbs and shrubs w.th usually 
very gorgeous and brilliant flowers, including the genera 
Gloainia, Achimenes, Aischyndnthus, and Gesnera, of our 
stoves; but there is only one hardy species in our gardens, viz., 
Raméndia Pyrencica, syn. Verbaéscwm Mycdni. The order 
is characterised amongst the Gamopetalous division by having 
unsymmetrical flowers and parietal placentation of the ovary; 
but the little plant alluded to is anomalous in having symme- 
trical flowers, and hence its position is not undisputed. It isa 
dwarf mountain plant about + inches high with tufted oblong- 
cordate rugose shavey leaves and few-flowered bractless scapes. 
The flowers are purple or lilac with yellow anthers, 
Orver LXXXI—PEDALIACER. 
A small order remarkable for the curious forms assumed by 
the seed-verscl of different species. In structural arrangements 
it hardly differs from the last. The only genus we are familiar 
with in cultivation is Murtynia. The species are of annual 
duration, branching from the base, and clothed with clammy 
hairs. Leaves simple, cordate-oblong or rotundate. Flowers 
