- Dick that so interesting a plant should be dedicated to its dis- _ 
coverer, than whom no one can be more worthy of such a mark 
of distinction. i 
I possess from Mr Nourrats specimens and a drawing of a 
second species of this genus, NV. pedata, Nutr. MSS. which 
is figured in the present number: both kinds are now growing 
in our garden, the seeds having been received from Mr Dicx. 
The individual from which the present figure and descrip- : 
tion were taken, blossomed in the month of August in the 
greenhouse of the Edinburgh Garden ; but the plants cultivated 
in the open air at Glasgow are much more vigorous, although, 
from the circumstance of their flowering ee the inflorescence 
is less freely expanded. 
I have not had the opportunity of examining the seed- 
vessel, and am therefore unable to offer any farther remarks on 
the fructification than those which are italics given by Mr 
NUTTALL. 
Fig. 1. Outside view of a flower, natural size. _ Fig. 2. Anther, i in the act 
of bursting. Fig. 3. Anther opened. Fig. 4. Style and stigmas. ——e 
or less magnified. 
