Samples had been long since brought from the Brazils by 
M. Commerson, and upon these the species was founded in 
the Encyclopédie of the Chevalier de Lamarck. Other - 
samples from the same country were subsequently deposited 
in the Banksian and Lambertian Herbariums by Sir George 
Staunton. But the living plant has only now been intro- 
duced into our gardens, where it flowered for the first 
time in the hothouse of the Nursery of Messrs. Colvill, 
King's Road, Chelsea. 
The specific name was suggested by the leaf in a dried 
state, when the upper side shows very distinctly its nu- 
merous taperingly oblong recumbently adherent whitish 
calli disposed in a somewhat symmetrical order; each ter- 
minated by a short detachedly close-pressed bristle; an ap- 
pearance not unaptly compared to that of the seed on the 
surface of the Strawberry; to which the term granulosa 
alludes. This seedy surface will be looked for in vain on 
the fresh leaf; for the callosities which cause it are then 
buried in the substance of the leaf, and come plainly into 
view only as that shrinks away in drying. This appearance 
is common to other species, as well as the one before us. 
The winged corners of the branches, the long woolly 
hairs of the upper portion of the filaments, and the pe- 
culiar red-purple colour of the corolla, distinguish this 
species conspicuously from all its compatriot congeners we 
haveseen. Don MSS. 
