Tap. 6744. 
TINN EA 2&THIOPICA, var. dentata. 
Native of East Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Lasratz.—Tribe AsvGoIDEZ. 
Genus TinnEA, Kotsch. et Peyr.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 1220.) 
T. wthiopica, Kotsch. et Peyr. in Plant. Tinn, p. 25, t.11; Bot. Mag. t. 5637. 
Van. dentatu; frutex rigidus, cano-puberulus, divaricatim ramosus, foliis parvis 
elliptico- v. obovato-oblongis obtusis apicem versus irregulariter dentatis, . 
floribus subsolitariis parvis pollicaribus, valycis tubo subcylindraceo, corollz 
rufo-brunnez labio inferiore vix 3 poll. lato. 
The genus Tinnea seems destined to give some trouble 
to systematists.. The originally discovered species, 7’. 
ethiopica, was first published in the Boranican Magazine 
(Tab. 5637) in 1867, from plants raised from seeds sent to 
Kurope by the discoverer herself, Madame Tinne, the famous 
Dutch lady who fell a sacrifice to her zeal for African travel 
(she died of fever on the White Nile in 1863); and with 
the description given in this Magazine is a citation of the 
work, which was then only in preparation, illustrating the 
botanical results of her disastrous expedition. To my 
astonishment, when the latter work appeared, it contained 
an admirable plate of a plant called Tinnea ethiopica, but’ 
which it was difficult to recognize as the same with that 
figured in the Magazine, and which (or cuttings from 
which) has flowered annually at Kew ever since its intro- | 
duction. The plant figured in “ Plantz Timneanz’”’ has very 
slender branches, leaves two-thirds to three-quarters of an 
inch long, and subsolitary flowers so precisely resembling 
those of that now here figured, that 1 need not describe 
_ them; whereas the Kew plant has stems twice as stout, 
leaves two to two and a half inches long, flowers two or 
more together, twice as large, with an almost globose 
bladdery calyx, and a very dark corolla with proportionally 
larger and much broader lobes, of which the mid one is 
‘MARCH 1st, 1884. 
