Tas. 6469. 
BROWNEA Ana. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Leaguminosz.—Tribe AMHERSTIEX. 
Genus Brownka, Jacg.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 577.) 
Brownea Ariza; ramulis rachi foliorum foliolisque glaberrimis, petiolulis villosis 
glabratisve, foliis 6-8-jugis oblongo-lanceolatis abrupte caudato-acuminatis 
membranaceis subtus glaucis basi angustato inequali obtuse, jugorum inferi- 
orum foliolis brevioribus basi cordatis, floribus dense spicato-capitatis, capitulis 
7 poll. diam., bracteolis connatis extus sericeis calycis tubo multo longioribus, 
petalis sepalis duplo longioribus obovato-oblongis obtusis longe gracile unguicu- 
latis, filamentis petala subsequantibus 11 ad basin fere liberis glaberrimis, ovario 
molliter sericeo, stylo glaberrimo. 
B. Ariza, Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 170. 
B. Princeps, Linden Catalogue, 1877, No. 98, p. 33. 
When for the first time a Brownea flowered in this country 
(in the Edinburgh Botanical Garden in 1842), it was said 
of it, “ Few things can exceed the elegance, or the richness 
of the colouring in the beautiful flowers of this shrub” 
(Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3964), This applied to B. coccinea, 
now considered by far ‘‘ the poorest thing’’ of the genus 
that has hitherto been cultivated in England, its heads of 
flowers being little over two inches in diameter. It was 
succeeded by B. grandiceps (flowered in 1855), which was 
pronounced, “‘ Although far inferior in point of richness of 
colour of the flowers to B. coccinea, yet the quantity of 
flowers collected into an almost globose head nearly eight 
inches in diameter, gives this infinitely the advantage over 
that species” (Bot. Mag.t. 4839). Of B. Ariza, the third 
species that has flowered, it may truly be said, that it 
combines with the size of head of B. grandiceps the vivid 
colouring of B. coccinea. 
Brownea Ariza is a native of New Grenada, having been ~ 
discovered, about the year 1842, by the late Theodor Hart- 
weg, in forests of the province of Bogota, at an elevation of 
1400 feet above the sea, where it is called the Ariza by the 
inhabitants; it was not however introduced by that traveller 
JANUARY Ist, 1880. 
