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TAB. 4189.

FRANCISCEA ACUMINATA. Acuminated Franciscea.

Nat. Ord. SCROPHULARINEÆ.-DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Generic Character Calyx persistens, inflatus, campanulatus, quinquedentatus: den-

tibus æqualibus. Corolla hypocrateriformis; limbus quinquepartitus subæqualis; lobis rotundatis repandis, margine incumbentibus; tubus apice inflatus, incurva- tus. Stylus apice incrassatus. Stigma bilobum. Capsula ovata, bilocularis, bivalvis, valvulis impartibilibus. Pohl. FRANCISCEA acuminata; ramis erecto-patentibus, foliis oblongis acuminatis ad basin parum attenuatis glabris (ciliatis), bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis caly- cibusque glaberrimis, floribus paucis subracemosis terminalibus. Pohl. FRANCISCEA acuminata. Pohl, Plant. Brazil. v. 1. p. 4. t. 3. FRANCISCEA Pohliana, Hort. A handsome Brazilian shrub, native of Brazil, presented by Mr. Lowe of Clapton to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it flowers in the stove during the months of June and July. It was received under the name of F. Pohliana, probably a mere garden name, which ought not to be retained, for it is assuredly the F. acuminata of Pohl, in the splendid work above quoted. It is a very desirable hot-house plant, wanting indeed the delicious scent of F. Hopeana and the handsome foliage of F. hydrangeaformis, but nearly equal to the latter and superior to the former in the flowers. Cuttings will strike under a bell-glass in sand, if placed on a tank-pit. Sixteen species of this genus are now described in books; but some of them are doubtful, or with difficulty to be distinguished from others. The genus is also thought not to be sufficiently distinct from Brunsfelsia, and Mr. Bentham has united the two in the descriptions of Scrophularineæ for the forthcoming volume of De Candolle's Prodromus.

Botanical Description A shrub, in our stove about two feet high, much

branched, everywhere glabrous. Leaves alternate, on short peti- oles, subcoriaceous, oblong, acuminate, tapering gradually at the base, quite entire, obscurely nerved and ciliated at the margin. Flowers terminal, but generally on short branches, which are OCTOBER 1ST, 1845. P frequently overtopped by neighbouring ones, arranged in rather few-flowered corymbs. Pedicels short, with subulate bracteas at the base. Calyx oblong-campanulate, tapering below, five-toothed. Corolla hypocrateriform, with the tube about twice as long as the calyx, slender, slightly enlarged upwards and there much inclined, so as to give an oblique direction to the limb, which is broad, deeply cut into five roundish, waved, spreading, deep purple seg- ments, soon fading to a pale purple; the mouth having a white elevated ring. Stamens didynamous, included. Pistil also in- cluded. Ovary sunk in a fleshy disk or ring, ovate. Style nearly as long as the tube, and geniculated or bent at an angle so as to follow the inclination of the tube, a little thickened upwards. Stigma large, two-lobed.

Figures

Fig. 1. Pistil with its fleshy disk or ring at the base :-magnified. ● Thrifty Whiskers bra the