into cultivation, though so stated by Paxton. The splendid 
specimen here figured was flowered by the late deeply- 
lamented Dr. Moore of Glasnevin, who was also the first to 
flower B. grandiceps. In a letter received with the plant 
from him in March of last year, he informed me that he re- 
ceived it from the Continent (presumably from Mr. Linden) 
under the name of B. Prinéeps; that it was then fourteen 
feet high, and flowered profusely every year. In another 
letter of later date he says, “ Although the individual 
bunches of flowers are rather smaller than those of its rival 
B. grandiceps, their brilliant colour far surpasses it. Both ~ 
are in flower here at present, B. grandiceps with upwards of 
fifty flowering bunches on it.” 
The Brownea Ariza of Paxton’s Flower Garden, vol. u. 
p. 59 (1851-2), copied in Lemaire’s “Jardin Fleuriste,” 
t. 1942, is a totally different plant from this, and apparently 
B. grandiceps. 
Desor. A tree thirty to forty feet high; branches gla- 
brous, and petiole and rachis of leaf covered with brown 
shining bark, bearing small scattered smooth warts. Leaves 
one foot and more long; rachis slender, bearing leaflets to 
the very base, there swollen into an oblong nob; leaflets six 
to eight pairs, four to seven inches long, quite glabrous,mem- 
branous, glaucous beneath, uppermost pair the longest, ob- 
lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, narrowed to a rounded obtuse 
unequal base, the lowest pair much the shortest, cordate at 
the base; petiolules very short, tumid, densely villous, at 
length glabrous. lowers most densely spicate on a stout 
silky columnar rachis two inches long, forming a globose 
head of scarlet bracts sepals and petals six inches in dia- 
meter ; outer bracts coriaceous, pubescent, orbicular-reni-— 
form, one to one and a half inches in diameter; inner spa- 
thulate or oblanceolate, membranous, silky, as long as the 
fiowers; bracteoles connate into a silky spathe enclosing 
the flower for more than half its length. Flowers two inches 
long. Calyz-tube sessile, glabrous, obconic. Sepals obovate- 
spathulate, more than half as long as the obovate-oblong — 
obtuse petals, which have long slender claws. Stamens 
eleven; filaments free almost to the base, glabrous. Ovary 
densely villous with silky hairs; style glabrous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, section of flower and bracteolar spathe ; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, stigma :— 
all enlarged. = 
