have been cultivated by Miller in 1739; but if any one will 

 turn to the plant described by that celebrated gardener in 

 his Dictionary, he will convince himself, that it was perfo- 

 liata, already published in this work (vol. 1. fol. 78), and 

 not Murucitja that is there intended. The two have several 

 pecuHar features in common, though in the main they are 

 widely distinct; both have a coloured calyx, a cupped ur- 

 ceolus, a proti-uded column, a deflected operculum, an up- 

 right conically contracted crown, and two-lobed lunulate 

 leaves ; t>ut in Murucuja the crown is of one piece, the nec- 

 tarium divided into 10 shallow cells by as many longitudinal 

 fleshy septa, ami the leaves are entire at the base ; while in 

 perfoliata, on the other hand, the crown is composed of many 

 converging radii, the nectary is an undivided chamber, sur- 

 rounded at the circumference by a single circular fleshy sep- 

 tum, and the leaves ar§ cordately indented at the base. 



Our figure was taken in August last in the hothouse of 

 the nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea; 

 where the plant had been raised from seed received by Mr. 

 Anderson, the superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden, 

 from St. Domingo, where it was formerly found wild by 

 Professor Swartz. We suspect that the present is the first 

 instance of the species having flowered in this country. 



The samples in the Banksian Herbarium were collected 

 by Swartz, and have solitary flowers, not twin ones, as de- 

 scribed in the '^ Observationes" of that celebrated botanist. 



