to which he adds seven others (" sed qusedam inccrtse"), includ- 

 ing the B. metadata of Martius, which we had supposed to be 

 identical with our B. maculata, given at Tab. 4551 of this Ma- 

 gazine. 



Descr. Our native specimens exhibit a rather long, creeping 

 root, thick as a goose-quill, resembling the caudex of some Fern, 

 and having woody, fibrous radicles about the base. Stem erect, 

 a span long, obtusely quadrangular, and slightly stellato-pubes- 

 cent, simple, or rarely subramose. Leaves long-petioled {petioles 

 two and a half to three inches long), submembranaceous, ovate, 

 five-veined, subacute, slightly tapering at the apex, dark-green 

 above (young ones deeply suffused with rose) ; between the five 

 parallel veins or ribs, one to three in each areole formed by 

 transverse veinlets, are lines of very clear, distinct spots of white, 

 or more frequently rose-colour, in one or two series ; beneath, of 

 a uniformly purple colour. The spots on the upper side are sub- 

 rotund or oval, and clearly defined, almost appearing as if studded 

 with rubies. The margin of the foliage is entire, or obscurely 

 crenato-dentate. Peduncle short, terminal, or axillary from the 

 superior leaves, bearing a cyme of few, five to ten, flowers. Calyx, 

 including the inferior ovary, piloso-glandulose, the limb of four 

 or five broad, subrotund, erect, obtuse or retuse lobes; with 

 a few spinous or hair-like teeth on the back, or at the margin. 

 Petals, four or five, obliquely obovate, rose-colour. Anthers 

 of the stamens opening with one pore, yellow. Ovary with four, 

 broad, pointed, erect scales at the base of the [columnar] style. 

 Stigma obtuse. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil, the style with four scales at its base. 2. Petal. 

 3. Stamen : — magnified. 



Erratum in the Account of the Fourcroya longseva, given in 

 our last Number, Tab. 5519. 



Our old and valued friend James I)e Carle Sowerby, Esq., Secretary to the 

 Boyal Botanic Society of London, Regent's Park, informs us that our Pig- 1 

 (reduced figures of the flowering plant, confessedly copied from Karwinski and 

 Zuccarini's plate) does not accurately represent the racemes of flowers, as 

 observed in the Eegent's Park plant, — being too compound, and of too feathery 

 a character. Further, that Mr. Eeid, not Mr. Eobinson, had the charge of the 

 conservatory in which the flowering of the plant was so successfully accomplished. 

 We learn, too, that no seeds were produced, but a large crop of leaf-buds or 

 gemmae from the branches of the panicle, several plants of which were kindly 

 sent to Kew. 



