the Organ mountains. Plants have likewise been liberally distributed 
by him, and we owe the specimen here figured to the kindness of our 
good friend, Mr. Fercusoy, who sent it from the Royal Botanic 
Garden Belfast, in the month of October, 1841. Native specimens are 
amongst the earliest of Mr. GARDNER’s Brazilian Collections (n. 375), 
and he has there remarked, “ This plant is very common in the Organ 
mountains. I have not met with it lower than 3,000 feet above the ele- 
vation of the sea, but from that altitude, to about 6,000 feet, it abounds. 
In the Virgin forests it is most common by the sides of streams, climb- 
ing up the stems of the large trees, and flowering among the branches. I 
have seen it reach to a height of forty or fifty feet, giving the trees to 
which it has attached itself, the appearance of being Fucustas them- 
selves. At an elevation of 5 to 6,000 feet it loses its climbing habit, and 
becomes a bush, varying from two to four feet high.”—In this latter 
state it must have a good deal the appearance of F. macrostemma, which, 
Dr. Lixypiey observes; the flowers considerably resemble. The leaves, 
however, are much larger, and the stipules afford a very important 
character. Four species of Brazilian Fucustm are described by 
CAMBASSé&DES, in St. Hitarre’s Fl. Bras. Merid., two of which we 
may with safety be considered the same as that here figured, 
although the rooting character is not mentioned. Mr. Miers, in his 
obliging communication to us (as well as Dr. Liyptey), lays much 
stress on the petals being scarcely longer than the tube of the calyx, and 
on the coalescing of the segments of the limb; but these characters do 
not exist in Mr. GARDNER’S native specimens. 
The rooting character of Mr. Miers’ plant induced him to give the 
name of radicans to this species; but our growing plant does not ex- 
hibit this property, and Mr. Garpver, writing from Pontrilas House, 
while on a visit to Mr. BenrHam, says, “ I have been making a careful 
comparison of my species from the Organ mountains with Pout’s 
drawing and description of F. pyrifolia, as well as with F. integrifolia 
and F. affinis of Campassépus, in which I was assisted by Mr. Ben- 
THAM, and we have both come to the conclusion, that they are all one 
and the same species, for there is no character by which to distinguish 
them. Indeed, CAMBASSEDES says, he believes his affinis to be only a 
variety of integrifolia, and PursH remarks of his species that it resem- 
bles affinis, The climbing and rooting propensities are, I know, from 
osetvations made on the plants whence my specimens were obtained, 
only called forth under peculiar circumstances. 
The Fucusta pubescens and montana of Camp. in St. Hit. Fl. Bras. 
Merid. Tab. 134 and 135, have smaller leaves than the present species, 
and more toothed, and seem scarcely distinct from each other. To one 
orother of them may, assuredly, be referred the QueLusia regia, Vell. 
Fl. Flum. v. 4. tab. 6. 
Descr. The habit of the plant, and the rooting character of the stem 
Ps “pia above. The leaves are opposite in our specimens, but as. 
wt. GARDNER informs us, frequently ternate, from three to five inches 
ng, elliptical, obtuse or subcordate at the base, acuminate and toothed 
towards s the extremity, glabrous, except in the nascent foliage, deeply 
ie Baap te Purple beneath, and on the midrib and petiole, which latter 
an inch long, grooved above. Flowers of a beautiful crimson. 
Stamens much protruded. Ovary and young fruit oblong. 
Fig. 1. Stipule. 2. Portion of thas : —— 
us. the Root drawing and 
specimens sent by Mr. Miers Sear ote Oe es : 
