Tas. 6427. 
GOETHEA mackoyana. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Matvacrx.—Tribe Urenez. 
Genus Gorruea, Car.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 205.) 
Gortnea Mackoyana; fruticosa, ramosa, ramulis petiolisque molliter patentim 
pilosis, foliis sparsis gracile petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis v. oblanceolatis 
acuminatis basi acutis supra glabris saturate viridibus subtus pallidioribus 
coriaceis utrinque opacis integerrimis v. marginibus obscure undulatis, - 
floribus in racemos terminales demum subelongatos dispostis erectis, 
bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis viridibus pedicellos superantibus, 
bracteolis 4-5 roseis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi cordatis 
pubescentibus calycem 5-fidum duplo longioribus, petalis lineari-oblongis 
obtusis fusco-purpureis bracteolis duplo longioribus. 
Pavonia Mackoyana, Morren in Belgig. Hort., vol. xxviii, (1878) p- 59. t. iii. 
Though in several respects differing in character from the 
figure of Pavonia Mackoyana as figured in the Belgique 
Horticole under Pavonia, I cannot doubt this being the same 
plant; the most striking difference is in the leaves, which in 
the above-cited plate are represented as strongly serrate; on 
referring however to the accompanying Latin description, 
they are stated to subentire (limbo subintegro), and in the ac- 
companying remarks as ‘‘limbe presque entier ou faiblement 
acute.” They are also much larger in the Belgian figure than 
in our plant, but this may be due to the specimen being better 
grown. Another discrepance in character is the absence of 
minute pellucid dots in the leaves described by Morren; in 
place of which I find minute furfuraceous scales on the young 
bracts. Though referred by Morren to Pavonia, that learned 
author justly remarks that this plant is referable to Goethea 
by those who uphold that genus, as is done by Bentham in the 
“Genera Plantarum” and apparently with sufficient reason, 
the remarkable bracts forming a very well marked character in 
this species as well as in the original G. caulifora, Nees, and 
in G. strictiflora, Hook. (Tab. nost. 4677). On the other 
