Tas. 4364. 
SMEATHMANNIA puwBEscens. 
Downy Smeathmannia. 
Nat. Ord. PasstrLorE®.—PoLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4194.) 
SMEATHMANNIA pubescens ; ramis junioribus petiolis (basi glandulosis) costa 
subtus pedunculis calycibusque ferrugineo-sericeis, foliis oblongis sinuato- 
dentatis basi obtusis, sepalis petalisque acutis, urceolo barbato. 
SMEATHMANNIA pubescens. Br. in Linn. Trans. v.13. p.221 (in note). De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 3. p. 322. 
BuLowz1a insignis? Thonn. in Pl. Guin. v. 2. p. 21. 
At Tab. 4194 we represented the rare Smeathmannia laevigata 
and now we have the satisfaction of figuring and describing the 
equally scarce S. pubescens, Br., a native of the same country, 
viz., Sierra Leone, and imported by the same nobleman, Lord 
Derby, through the same medium, Mr. Whitfield. It flowered, 
probably for the first time in Europe, in the stove in the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, in February, 1848. It is a more showy species 
than S. /evigata, having larger leaves and larger blossoms, the 
latter equally destitute of fragrance. 
Duscr. A tall shrub: branches terete, the younger ones, as 
well as the petioles, costa of the leaves beneath, peduncles and 
exterior sepals, clothed with silky ferruginous hairs. Leaves 
alternate, shortly petioled, oblong, coriaceous, glossy, acute, 
penninerved, sinuato-dentate, obtuse at the base.  Petioles 
scarcely two lines long, thick, with from two to four pedicellated 
glands on each side of the base, shining, dark green, and very 
conspicuous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, short, single-flowered. 
Flowers large, white. Perianth of ten pieces or sepals, in two 
rows, the outer of which might be considered the calyx, but 
that they gradually pass into petals, the exterior sepa/ green, 
three-ribbed and hairy, the rest gradually more petaloid; the 
imner white, all of them acute and spreading. Urceolus cup- 
APRIL Ist, 1848. E2 
