Cal. 5-fidus v. 5-partitus. Cor. tubo brevi, fauce fornicata, limbi subbilabiati plani labio superiore obtusissimo bilobo, inferioris trilobi lobo medio basi saccato longiore rotundato. Antheræ loculi divergentes. Capsula globosa, bivalvis, valvulis integris medio septiferis. Semina membrana laxa inclusa.-Herba Austro-Americanæ, erectæ v. procumbentes. Folia opposita v. superiora alterna. Pedunculi uniflori, solitarii, axillares v. racemosi. Benth. * Specific Name and Character. ANGELONIA Gardneri; suffruticosa pubescenti-glandulosa, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis serratis floralibus basi latioribus bracteiformibus pedicellos superantibus. This beautiful species of ANGELONIA is No. 1086 of the Brazilian Collection of the indefatigable Mr. GARDNER, by whom it was found in rather dry, open places in the province of Pernambuco. Seeds were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden in 1838, and the plants raised from them flowered in the stove in May, 1839. DESCR. Stem erect, suffruticose, about three feet high, the branches, foliage, and peduncles clothed with copious, glandular So called by HUMBOLDT, from Angelon, the native name of one of the species. glandular, and viscid pubescence. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, sessile, acuminate, regularly serrated, nerved: those of the flowers much smaller and broadest at the base; they might rather be considered bracteas. Flowers handsome, in long, terminal, leafy or bracteated racemes. Pedicels solitary in each bractea, and shorter than it. Calyx of five deep segments, the two lower ones deeper and larger than the rest, glanduloso-pilose. Corolla (as in the Genus) purple, white in the centre, dotted with red. Stamens included: Anthers with the cells divaricated. Pistil pyramidal, hairy Germen globose, green, tapering into a white style. Stigma an acute point. Fig. 1. 2. Flowers. 3. Calyx. 4. Stamens. 5. Pistil:-magnified. Sepala ovario subnudo pyriformi adnata, in tubum brevissimum concreta: ext. 4-5 subimbricata ; int. 5-7 petaliformia, lanceolata, acuta, recurvo-patula, alba v. rosea. Stamina filiformia, pluriserialia, externa longiora, petalorum basi adnata; antheris minutis reniformibus. Stylus crassiusculus, columnaris, staminibus intimis longior. Stigma 4-5-radiatum. Bacca subglobosa, lævis, calyce marcescente coronata. Semina in pulpa nidulantia. Cotyledones latæ, acuminatæ, foliaceæ. Pfeiff. Specific Character and Synonyms. LEPISMIUM* Myosurus; diffuso-suberectum subarticulatum, articulis elongatis gracilibus 3-4-gonis, marginibus acutis crenulatis purpureis, crenulis subremotis albopilosis, squamula foliacea suffultis. Pfeiff. LEPISMIUM MYOsurus. Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. I. 139. CEREUS Myosurus. Salm-Dyck in De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 469. CACTUS tenuis. Schott. A native of Brazil, according to Dr. PFEIFFER. It flowered in July of the present year, in the collection of T. BROCKLE * ▲, a scale: so named, I presume, from the little scale at the crenatures. |