bifide, biloculares latere interiore sulco longitudinali, exteriore nervulo a 
basi ad apicem excurrente notate, flava, latere dehiscentes; 3 Ssuperiores in- 
feriorque media contigue, inferiorum laterales separate et, instar cornuum, 
divergentes. Germ. ovale, 3-gonum, glabrum, virescentér albidum: stylus 
rectus, filiformis, obsolete 3-queter, germine fere duplo longior, illique basi 
concolor, apice purpurascens: stigma 3-lobum: lobulis orbiculatis, virescens. 
Caps. (maturam non vidimus) immatura: 3-gono-globosa, 3-valvis, 3-locu. 
laris, calycem superans, polysperma. Sem. plura. Mikan loc. cit: 
Dicuorisanpra is technically distinguished from Carro- 
neMA (Brown prod. 271) by a deliquescent deciduous calyx 
smaller than the corolla and irregularly conyergent sta- 
mens, as well as by many particulars in the habit; from 
‘Trapescantia by naked filaments, by the anthers being 
inserted at their base, and by the lengthened oblong form 
and contiguous parallel linear cells of the same, as well as 
by the want of an involucre and very different disposition of 
the inflorescence; the difference in habit of the two last is 
not indeed great in regard to the rest of the plant. 
We were directed by Mr. Brown to the work which con- 
tains the description of this fine plant; and have to thank — 
the same gentleman for pointing out to us the main distinc. 
tions from both its abovementioned coordinates. 
The sample for the drawing was kindly forwarded to ag . 
by Mr. Harrison, of Aigburgh, near Liverpool, along with 
a skilful and characteristic representation of the plant by a 
Lady of his family. It had been raised in the hothouse — 
from seed from the Brazils, where, according to M. Mikan, 
the species is found wild at about thirty miles distance from 
Rio Janeiro. 
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Now first introduced into our gardens. 
A perennial herbaceous caudescent plant, from three to 
four feet high, sometimes simple, sometimes 2-3-branched. 
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