Tas. 5998. 
BROWNEA BIRSCHELLIT, 
Native of La Guayra. 
Nat. Ord. Leauminos#.—Tribe AmnerstTIEZ. 
Genus Browne, Jacq. ; (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 577). 
Browne Birschellii ; glaberrima, foliolis 4-jugis obovato- v. elliptico-lanceo- 
latis abrupte caudato-acuminatis infimis ovato-oblongis basi rotundatis 
cordatisve, floribus racemosis, racemis foliolis 2 sessilibus ovato-cordatis 
stipatis, rachi brevi, bracteis caducis, pedicellis floribusque roseis, bracteo- 
lis in spatham anguste infundibuliformem apice fissam calycem involu- 
crantem connatis, ealycis tubo elongato cylindraceo 14—2-pollicari, 
segmentis anguste spathulatis obtusiusculis, petalis calycis segmentis 
duplo longioribus obovato-spathulatis acutis subqualibus, filamentis in 
tubum elongatum cylindraceum connatis superne breviter liberis 
alternis brevioribus, antheris 10 corollam non superantibus, ovario 
-apicem versus tubi calycis affixo breviter stipitato pubeseente, stylo 
filiformi stricto. 
Of this plant I know nothing further, than that it is 
identical with one collected by Mr. Birschel (formerly a 
young gardener at Kew) in Caraccas, whither he had been 
sent as a botanical collector in 1854; and that it closely 
resembles a species from the Pacific sea-coast of New 
Grenada, at Esmeraldes, collected by Colonel Hall, and pre-— 
served in the Hookerian Herbarium. In his notes accom- 
panying the specimen, Mr. Birschel describes it as a tree 
twenty feet high, very common on the Quebrada del Rio 
de La Guayra and Quebrada de los Hermanos, flowering in 
April. In all probability the specimen, from which the 
accompanying figure was taken, was sent by Mr. Birschel, 
who contributed many valuable plants to this establishment. 
It is now about ten feet high, and flowered for the 
first time in July of the present year. It was named B, 
racemosa, Jacquin, by M. Triana, and may be the species 
described under that name by Kunth, in the “ Nova Genera 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1872. 
