With us it has hitherto been treated, on account of its ra- 
‘nity, as a greenhouse plant, when it has the appearance of be- 
ing at feant a biennial. But it may be better perhaps to regard — | 
“it as a. hardy annual; and it is certain that it is mentioned by 
_ Wittpenow as OE annual duration. es Is a native of the 
- Levant. : 
Sak ~ ae describe the ‘Suen, as. acatios - but thas is Set 
the case in our plant, although the upper and younger flowers 
on ‘the raceme may be nearly. so. 
Closely allied to this is L. dubia a Hortus ‘Kiet (pro- os 
bably the L. orientalis of Lamarck), which has the stamens 
‘included i in the: corolla, and inhabits the Caucasus ; _and still 
more nearly the Lubinia: atropurpurea of Link. and OrTo, 
_ in the Plants of the Berlin Garden, t. 27, a native of the Cape | 
of Good Hope. Indeéd, I can. see no difference in the two. 
plants: whatever. ~The genus Lubinia was founded by Com- » 
MERSON upon the Lysimachia mauritiana of Lamarck,. ..; 
which has a:spreading,. somewhat irregular limb to the corolla, saat 
cand alternate leaves. 
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the cells open, and filled with the pollen. | Fig. 4. Corolla opened to. 
shew the situation of the stamens and the pistil. ° ‘Fig. 5. Pistil. Fig. 6. 
- Germen cut through transversely to shew the ovules. Fig. 7. Back 
i _ view of a leaf.—All but Fig. 7. more or less magnified. 
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