Trinity Lodge, Edinburgh, (from whom our living plant has been 

 received,) a gentleman ardently devoted to botany and horti- 

 culture. The seeds were received by him in 1859, from the 

 venerable South American botanist Dr. William Jameson, of 

 Quito. They were gathered in his favourite mountain Pichincha 

 (the vegetation of which he has for so many years successfully 

 explored), at an elevation of between ten thousand and eleven 

 thousand feet above the level of the sea. It is, as Dr. Lindley 

 observes, so very like the P. chloracra, " that it might be mis- 

 taken for it, but it has stamens considerably shorter than the 

 style, and the tube instead of being green at the bottom where 

 it gradually tapers into the ovary, is whollv flesh-coloured, and 

 ends above the ovary in six abrupt prominent ribs." Indeed, 

 Dr. Lindley is of opinion that this rather than the chloracra, is 

 the Hamanthus dubius of Humboldt and Kunth. 

 > We had both of the species flowering at the same winter season 

 in a temperate house, but though neither of them possesses the 

 qualities suggested by the generic name of the learned author 

 they are exceedingly pretty, continue a long time in blossom, and 

 tend to render a house gay at a period of the year when there is 

 little that is so. The leaves, as the scape and flowers advance 

 to maturity, go on increasing in size till they become thrice the 

 size ot what are here figured. 



Fig. 1. Base of the tube of the flower, stamens, and pistils. 2. Transverse 

 section of the ovary -.— magnified. ' i ™"™" 



