Tab. 4287 . 
BRUNFELSIA nitida ; /3. } Jamaicensis. 
Shining-leaved Brmfelsia; Jamaica var.? 
Nat. Ord. SCROPHULARINEiE.—D idynamia Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-dentatus v. 5-fidus. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo 
apice vix dilatato, limbo ultra medium 5-fido, lobis latis rotundatis, 80 sti\atione 
bdabiato sinubus subplicatis. Stamina fertilia 4; anthera apice confluentes. 
Stylus apice incurvus dilatato-bilobus: lobis subsequalibus^ intus stigmatosis. 
Capsula coriacea aut camosa, valvulis integris, vel rarius indebiscens ? crassissima, 
subdrupacea; dissepimentum tenue sub placentis carnosis reconditum. Semina 
plurima, majuscula, pulpa vel placentis carnosis plus minus immersa. Embryo 
Iseviter incurvus.—Frutices arhoresve parvee, America australis v. Antillarum 
incola. Folia altema, integerrima, exobovato-oblonga, sape nitida. Cymse termi¬ 
nates, nunc densa capituliformes, nunc laxiuscule paucifiora, vel ad florum unicum 
reducta. Bractese parva. Flores speciosi, sapissime suavolentes, pallide violacei, 
carulei vel albidi, rarius ochroleuci aut albi. Be Cand. 
Brunfelsia nitida ; glabra, foliis obovato-oblongis acutis, floribus solitarus, 
calyce campanulato profunde 5 -iido, corollse tubo calyce 8—10-ies ongiore, 
limbo planiusculo capsulae vahnilis coriaceo-carnosis. Benth. 
Brunfelsia nitida. Benth. in Be Cand, Prodr. v. 10 . 200. 
j3. ? Jamaicensis ; floribus majoribus, fructu ignoto. Benth. 1. c. 
The genus Brunfelsia was so named by Pluiiiier in l^nour of 
Otto Bimfels or Brunfels, of Metz, who is described oy ^a/Aer as 
one of the restorers of botany, on account of his work 1 er arum 
vivse leones’, published in three vols. folio, between }jars 
1530-36. Two species of the original genus w^re detected by 
the older botanists, B. Americana, and B. undulata\ a t ir sup 
posed species is described by Mr. Don, from Peru, B. ^ ’ 
and a fourth, by Mr. Bentham above quoted, B. nitida, irom 
Havanah; to which he has referred var. Jamaicenm, trom Mr. 
Purdie’s specimens in our Herbarium. With these large ye ow 
flowered species, Mr. Bentham has united the blue-flowered Bran- 
ciscers (of Pohl) as not generically distinct: ^ 
being found in some of the yellowy-flowered ones, ihe P 
figured, is the var. Jamaicensis of B. nitida, of 
being what corresponds with the specimens sent by Hr. ur le 
from .Jamaica; but as I am in ignorance of the fruit, 1 canno 
