It will surprise many of our readers, perhaps, to be told, 

 that this fine plant, known in our stoves, we believe, for 

 four or five years, and pretty widely dispersed under the 

 name of Brugmansia parviflora, and B. Jloribunda, has 

 nothing to do with that Genus ; and is, in fact, one of 

 the rarest of plants (speaking botanically), a Genus always 

 spoken of by authors as " solis Ruiz et Pavonio notum." 

 A reference to the figure in the Flora Peruviana of Juan- 

 ulloa parasitica will convince any one that the so-called 

 Brugmansia can be no other than that remarkable " para- 

 site (or rather, I apprehend, an epiphyte), upon the trunks 

 of trees in woods near Pozuzo and San Antonio de Playa 

 Grande, in Peru." It was there discovered by the authors 

 of that fine work, and well figured by them. Notwith- 

 standing its parasitic nature, it flourishes freely if planted 

 in earth, and kept in a moist and warm stove, and recom- 

 mends itself both by its handsome foliage and its large and 

 richly-coloured calyces. Our plant flowered at Kevv in the 

 summer months. 



Descr. A. shrub, with somewhat the habit of Portlandia, 

 woody below ; but the young branches herbaceous, terete, 

 glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves alternate, often 

 geminate, and very unequal in size, from two or three to 

 five inches in length, somewhat succulent, dark-green, 

 oval or nearly obovate, obtuse, on short petioles. Flowers 

 terminal, on short, drooping branches, or they may be said 

 to be borne iu pedunculated,, leafy racemes, pedicels short, 

 thick, especially upwards, often in pairs. Calyx fleshy, 

 orange, ample, ovate, much larger than the diameter of 

 the corolla, with five very prominent angles, and five erect 

 teeth or lobes. Corolla about one-third longer than the 

 calyx, tubular, but enlarged upwards, most so on one 

 side, somewhat fleshy, full orange; the limb of five, short, 

 spreading, rounded segments. Stamens and pistil as de- 

 scribed in the generic character. 



Fig. 1. Corolla, nat. size. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary: — mag- 

 nified. 



