I.UXEMBURGIA CILIOSA. 
(Fringe-leaved Luxi^mbuigia.) 
Class. 
MONADELPHIA. 
Order. 
POLYA NDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
VIOLACEJS, 
Generic Charactbr.— Cai^/ar with five subequal 
sepals. Petals five, unequal. Anthers hypogynous, 
subsessile, linear, tetragonal at the summit, tw^o-pored. 
Stple subulate, incurved. Ovary trigonal. Capsule 
three-valved, one celled, margins introflexed, seed- 
bearing. Seeds marginate. 
Specific Character.— Ptoni an evergreen shrub. 
Leaves close on long petioles, oblong-lanceolate, glan- 
dularly setose, with a long hairy mucrone at the 
summit. Stipules deciduous. Corymbs many-flowered. 
Flowers yellow, polyandrous. 
SvNONYME.—Plectanthera ciliosa. i 
This fine plant forms a very elegant shrub, from two to four feet high ; but it 
is said to attain a height of eight to twelve feet in Brazil, where it also bears 
branches. " It was first detected," says Sir W. J. Hooker, " by Martins, in the 
Diamond district, province of Minas Geraes ; and, subsequently, in the year 1841, 
by Mr. Gardner, in moist, peaty soil, in open places, growing with species of 
Andromeda^ on the Organ Mountains, at an elevation of 5000 feet above the level 
of the sea. 
The genus was described by M. Auguste de St. Hilaire, under the name of 
Luxemhurgia^ though other botanists have given it the title of Plectanthera. It 
contains four Brazilian species, known to travellers and botanists; but only the 
present one is, we presume, introduced to this country. 
It has been in British collections about eighteen months or two years, and 
flowered in several places during the season of 1843. We saw beautiful specimens 
from the Royal Botanic Gardens, of Kew ; from Messrs. Lucorabe, Pince, and Co., 
of Exeter ; at the nursery of Mr. Knight, King's-road, Chelsea ; and in others of 
the great nurseries. From Mr. Knight's plant our present drawing was prepared 
in July of last year. It is through Mr. Gardner that the stock now in England 
appears to have been obtained. 
No plant can be more regular, neat, and pleasing in its mode of growth. 
There is a very peculiar symmetry, cleanness, and healthiness about it, which seem 
to attend it in all conditions, and give it a most ornamental appearance. 
It grows perfectly erect, with a clear stem, and, as we have seen it, to about a foot 
