hand the character of Goethea taken from the inflorescence 
being cauline, breaks down in this plant, in which it is race- 
mose as in Pavonia proper. 
G. Mackoyana was introduced from Brazil, in 1873, by 
Jacob Mackoy of Liege, and the specimen here figured was 
communicated by Mr. Bull, with whom it tlowered in December 
of last year. 
Descr. A shrub; branches short, cylindrical, clothed, 
as also the petioles, with soft spreading  close-set 
hairs. Leaves three to five inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate, quite entire or obscurely sinuate, coriaceous, 
dark-green, glabrous, nerves beneath red-brown; petiole 
three-fourths to one and a half inch long, slender. 
Flowers in a terminal dense raceme which elongates during 
flowering; bracts one-half to three-fourths of an inch 
long, elliptic- or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ; 
pedicels shorter than the bracts, jointed about the middle. 
Bracteoles four or five, two-thirds of an inch long, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, rose-red, cordate at the 
base, plaited. Calyx half as long as the bracts, campanulate, 
5-lobed to below the middle, segments acute. Petals dark 
brown purple, twice as long as the bracteoles, linear-oblong, 
rounded at the tip, erect, about 7-nerved.  i/aments and 
styles rose-red ; anthers and stigmas blue purple.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, calyx; 2, petals; teeth of stamina] tube :—all enlarged. 
