but I think the marks of distinction given are very unsatisfac- 
tory, and assuredly very variable. If, indeed, the figure of Pa- 
ritium tiliaceum, as given in the ‘ Botanical Register,’ t. 232, be 
compared with our present figure of P. elatum, they may, on the 
first aspect, be considered distinct enough; while in reality the 
main difference is in the size of the leaves and flowers, and the 
colour of the latter, yellow (as it is always described in ¢ilia- 
ceum), bright brick-red in our elatum ; while Grisebach describes 
its “petals in the early morning of a pale primrose-colour, then 
becoming orange-colour and deep-red as the day advances.” No 
such change took place in the flowers of our living plant. In 
these, too, the petals are very broad-obovate and clawed: in our 
dried native specimen most of the petals are narrow and oblong 
or subspathulate, and as to colour, when dry they become of a 
deep, almost verdigris-green, sometimes quite coppery, and at 
other times partaking of the two colours. I have used the best 
marks I can find in my specific character, which may render any 
further description superfluous. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a forked filament and anthers,—magnified. 2. Capsule 
and involucel (the large calyx having fallen away). 3. Seed:—natural size. 4. 
Seed,—magnified. 
