* Floripondio” of the Spaniards, according to Father Feuillée, 
and Ruiz and Pavon, and is commonly cultivated both in Chili and 
Peru ; but I possess native specimens from the Andes of El Equa- 
dor, where, Colonel Hall remarks, “ it flourishes on the table-lands 
to an elevation of 9,500 feet, and where the mean temperature 
is about 50°.” The Datura arborea of our gardens, which I 
possess from the West Indies, where, however, it is probably 
only in a state of cultivation, must therefore have a new name, 
and I shall suggest that of D. Gardneri for it*, in compliment to 
Mr. Gardner, who was not only the first (as far as I know) to 
distinguish it from the western or Pacific species, but to determine 
its locality. In his Brazilian collection, my specimen (n. 560) 
of this plant, bears the remark, “Is this quite the same as the 
plant from the other side of the South American continent? 
This is a small tree, ten to twelve feet high, common on the 
banks of all the small rivers in the Organ Mountains. ‘Tab. 
1837.” The plant, here figured, thus makes a third clearly defined 
white-flowered shrubby Datura. It merely requires the pro- 
tection of a cool greenhouse. In the summer it succeeds best in 
the open air, and bears its fine blossoms at that period. 
_ Descr. Our plant has a shrubby stem, about three feet high : 
the young branches, and almost every part of the plant, clothed 
with soft down. Leaves chiefly confined to the extremity of the 
branches, ovate, petiolate, acuminate, entire, or sinuate or angled. 
Peduncles axillary, single-flowerd, curved downward, so that the 
flower is drooping. Calyx spathaceous, long, narrow, cylindrical, 
split on one side for more than three quarters of its length with 
five prominent ribs, gradually tapering into an entire, long, subu- 
late, patent, or recurved point, nearly as long as the tube of 
the corolla. Corolla large, funnel-shaped, white or cream- 
coloured, striated, the mouth spreading, 5-lobed, the lobes ter- 
minated by a long, subulate, spreading or recurved point. 
Stamens included, inserted at the top of the contracted part of 
the tube. Filaments subulate, hairy below. Azthers limear- 
oblong. Germen ovate, inserted in a fleshy disk. Style as long 
as the tube. Stigma capitate. 
* D. Gardneri, Hook.; fruticosa glabriuscula, foliis integerrimis, calyce cylin- 
draceo inflato apice obtuso ineequaliter 4—5-lobato, corolle limbo patentissimo, 
laciniis tenui-acuminatis. 
D. arborea. Hort. (non Linn.) 
Apt are of streams in the Organ Mountains, Brazil, abundant; G. 
Fig. 1. Portion of the tube of the corolla with a stamen. 2. Pistil :-—magnified. 
