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Browallia elata or Tall Browallia
Browallia elata. Tall Browallia
Class and Order
Didynamia Gymnospermia
Generic Character
Cal. 5-dentatus. Cor. limbus 5-fidus, æqualis, patens:
umbilico clauso Antheris 2, majoribus. Caps. 1-locularis
Specific Character and Synonyms
BROWALLIA elata pedunculis unifloris multiflorisque. Lin. Syst.
Vegetab. p. 572. Sp. Pl. 880. Mill. Dict.
Of this genus there are only two species, both natives of
South-America, the elata, so called from its being a much taller
plant than the demissa, is a very beautiful, and not uncommon stove
or green-house plant; it is impossible, by any colors we have, to do
justice to the brilliancy of its flowers.
Being an annual, it requires to be raised yearly from seed, which
must be sown on a hot-bed in the spring, and the plants brought
forward on another, otherwise they will not perfect their seeds in
this country. Some of these may be transplanted into the borders of
the flower-garden which are warmly situated, where, if the season
prove favorable, they will flower and ripen their seeds; but, for
security's sake, it will be prudent to keep a few plants in the
stove or green-house.
As these plants have not been distinguished by any particular
English name, Miller very properly uses its Latin one; a practice
which should as much as possible be adhered to, where a genus is
named in honour of a Botanist of eminence.
The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden
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