dular dots, resembling those of Hypericum. The first dis- 

 covered species (by Humboldt) is a native of New Grenada ; 

 the second, and only other yet known, (the one here 

 figured,) is a native of Mexico, was first taken up by 

 De Candolle, and afterwards more fully described in the 

 " Lirmaea," from specimens gathered by Schiede in woods 

 at Jalacingo ; and I possess fine native specimens collected 

 by M. Galeotti, upon the Cordillera of Mexico, near the 

 Pacific, growing in woods and by river-sides, at an eleva- 

 tion of from 5,500 to 8,000 feet above the level of the sea. 

 It is No. 3180 of M. Galeotti's, Mexican Collections. 



Schlechtendal calls it, and deservedly, " planta pulcher- 

 rima ;" its flowers are large, copious, and the foliage ex- 

 tremely delicate. It was introduced to this country from 

 Paris by Messrs. Rollisons of the Tooting Nursery, and 

 by them kindly given to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where 

 it blossomed copiously during the early winter months. 

 This blossoming was probably hastened by its growth 

 being checked from cuttings being taken from the plant. 



Descr. A tall, free growing shrub, the young branches 

 and petioles clothed with patent, deciduous hairs. Leaves 

 on long petioles, bijugate ; leaflets large, frequently two 

 inches long, obcordate or almost cuneate, shortly petiolate, 

 entire, truncate or slightly retuse at the top, pale green 

 above, slightly glaucous beneath; where the glandular dots 

 are very conspicuous, even when not held up between the 

 eye and the light, by their brown colour. The stipules are 

 very deciduous, and only present on the young branches, 

 but are large, orbicular, membranous, and very beautifully 

 coloured, pale yellow-green, tinged and veined with red. 

 Pedicels short, with lax, opposite, coloured bracteas, resettl- 

 ing the stipules. Calyx most conspicuously dotted with 

 glands, two-lipped; upper lip of two exceedingly large, 

 veined, orbicular, condnplicate lobes, lower very small, 

 deeply cut into three reflexed, acuminated lobes. Standard 

 of the corolla large, broadly obcordate. Wings small, not 

 half so long as the keel. Filaments of the stamens much 

 curved very unequal in length. Germen of two terete 

 joints, the upper tapering into the long, curved style. 



