SCYPHAN'THUS EL'EGANS. 
ELEGANT CUP-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. JEQUALIS. 
Natural Order. 
loasace^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
1 Introduced 
Chile. 
2 feet. 
Aug. Sept. 
Annual. 
1 in 1824. 
No. 746. 
The name of the genus now before us is deduced 
from the Greek words skuphos, a cup, and anthos, 
a flower. The application will be evident. 
Scyphanthus elegans was, we believe, introduced 
to this country by the Horticultural Society, but it 
has not come into general cultivation. It is nearly 
allied to Loasa, and is sometimes met with in our 
gardens as Loasa volubilis; but this is a plant dis- 
tinct from Scyphanthus elegans. The stinging pro- 
perty of several allied species would doubtless ope- 
rate against the culture of this plant, just as the 
reasonable fear that attends the sight of the poison- 
ous adder is unnecessarily excited by those inoffen- 
sive creatures, the common snake, and the blind- 
worm, or slow-worm. The general dissemination 
of knowledge in the present day promises, however, 
to banish these prejudices from the minds of the 
rising generation. 
Plants of the Scyphanthus elegans should be 
raised in a hotbed in the spring, and put into the 
open borders, against a south wall if convenient, in 
May. As it will continue flowering till late in 
autumn, the seeds should be collected as they ripen. 
