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ren stalk not known. It seems to be allied to 
Monticola. PI. 6. f. 4 — 6. 
3? Monticola. — Martins ap. Schultes. Stalk 2 feet, 
smooth ; leaves lance-linear, remote ; sessile, glau- 
cous underneath ; peduncles 6, simple ; sepals 
(red ?) ; spatulate with a point obsoletely crenu- 
late ; petals lanceolate acute, the upper a little 
longer with purple lines, 19 or 20 lines long. Bar- 
ren stem not known. Found on Serra dos Lagos, 
in the province of Bahia. 
4? Plantaginea. — Martius ap. Schultes. Leaves nar- 
row, lanceolate, smooth, erect, resupinate (lance- 
ovate on the rosulaceous barren stem) ; involucral 
bractes many, longer than the peduncles ; sepals 
obovate, spatulate, obtuse ; petals obovate, oblong, 
apiculate ; colour uncertain ; appeared not to be 
spotted. On high hills of Minas Geraes. 
2. Peduncles one-flowered; upper petals erect; lower one 
abbreviated. Chiefly Brazilian plants. 
5. Caryophyllaea. — Jacquin. H. Sch. 4. 465. A. ligtu. 
Bot. Mag. 4. 125. Barren stalk rosulaceous; fer- 
tile scaled; involucral bractes leaf-like; upper petals 
spatulate, with a long slender point, white, some- 
times lined and speckled with red and the point 
red ; lowest petal almost obsolete ; sepals crimson 
upwards, tipped with white, the upper much 
longest. Brazil. This plant is generally known to 
cultivators by the erroneous name of ligtu, given 
through great inattention by Mr. Curtis, for it has 
no affinity to the ligtu of Feuillet, which he states 
to be a Chilian plant. In R. and Sch. the name 
Curtisiana is substituted ; but I can see no reason 
for that, since the error had been long ago set right 
by Jacquin, who named it Caryophyllaea on ac- 
count of its fine fragrance, and there can be no 
doubt at all as to the identity of the plants. It is 
easily cultivated in the stove, requiring absolute 
drought in the autumn and early winter, and will 
send up flower stems as soon as it is started in the 
very early spring, if placed on a hot flue and 
abundantlv watered. When it has done flower- 
ing, it may be removed into a cooler situation. Its 
