species which extends along the mountains of the coasts of 

 the Caribbean sea or Spanish main, from the months of the 

 Magdalena to Venezuela, and thence along the Andes to Peru. 

 Flowering specimens of T. quitensis were first sent to me by 

 Isaac Anderson Henry, Esq., F.L.S., in July of this year, and 

 the specimen here figured flowered in the Temperate House 

 of the Eoyal Gardens in October. The plants in both cases 

 were raised from seeds sent by Professor Jameson, so long 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Quito, and the zealous 

 explorer during forty years of Andean botany, who has now 

 removed to the University of San Juan, on the west side of 

 the Andes of Chili ; a country of which exceedingly little is 

 known botanically, and from whence we expect many novelties 

 from our old friend. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Vertical section of base of calyx-tube, of the natural size ; and 2, 

 portion of corona — magnified. 



