- tube of the calyx, and nearly as long as the segments, but 
much natrower and thinner. Oudermost rays of the crown 
as long as the petals, numerous, close, divaricate, filiform, 
flexuose, white variegated with violet-red ; znnermost scat- 
tered, resembling small papille or tubercles. Germen 
green, elliptical, quite smooth. Nectary divided by an in- 
complete partition or septum. 
The present specimen differs slightly from those de- 
scribed by most authors, where the leayes are somewhat 
villous, especially at the nerves, the germen pubescent, 
and the outer surface of the fruit yellow; while m ours the 
leaves had in general scarcely any pubescence, the germen 
was smooth, and the fruit when completely ripe had changed 
at the surface from yellowish green to dingy purple, 
of nearly the colour of that of the purple Egg plant. » 
Differences, however, affording no grounds to suspect a 
specific difference, when we find that inevery other re- 
spect the plants agree minutely with each other, and are . 
yet so remarkable and peculiar in their general appear- 
ance and habit. We have compared our plant with the 
prototype of the species of the Flora Virginica preserved in 
Clayton’s Herbarium, in Sir Joseph Banks’s Library, and 
have no doubt of their specific identity. As the plant is 
often cultivated in a greenhouse, and sometimes in the open 
eround, specimens in those situations have a narrower 
and far less luxuriant foliage than is found in such as, like 
the present, have grown in the border of a hothouse. 
The drawing was made from a plant in the collection 
of Lord Tankerville, at Walton upon the Thames, where 
the fruit ripens in abundance. We have divided the - 
species into two varieties, which however we believe to — 
arise in part from the difference in the places of cultiva- 
tion, for the convenience of those who may wish to keep 
them specifically asunder. 
Young seedling plants at Messrs. Colville’s in the King’s | 
Road, Chelsea, had nearly all undivided leaves, altho’ near 
a foot high; the uppermost were just beginning to break 
into lobes. 
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a The flower dissected vertically. & The berry (or gourd, Pepo) 
dissected horizontally. 
