province of St. Catherines, where Dr. Mueller resides, though 
the only place of that name which I find in the maps is in 
the province of Rio de Janeiro, and E.N.E. of the capital. 
Where St. Joveir (as I read it, for Tweedie’s writing and 
spelling are equally bad) is I cannot tell,—the only place of 
that name I find is in Bolivia, far from the scene of Mr. 
Tweedie’s travels, which extended over an immense tract of 
country chiefly to the southward and westward of Brazil 
proper, extending into Tucuman, Banda Oriental, &e. | 
It is with hesitation that I have advanced this as a new 
species of a genus already numbering some seventy to eighty 
species, many of them Brazilian. Its allies are 4. Bedfordi- 
anum, Hook. (Tab. Nost. 3892), 4. virens, St. Hil., and 
A. pictum (Tab. Nost. 3840), which all differ abundantly. 
Descr. A large, branching shrub, copiously covered with 
dense short velvety tomentum. Branches terete, slender. 
Leaves petioled, four to six inches long, by two to four broad, 
all deeply cordate at the base, the lower broad and palmately 
5- to 7-lobed to near the middle, the upper 3-lobed, the 
uppermost entire and ovate-cordate ; lobes of all triangular, 
ovate, acute, minutely toothed and crenate; nerves three to 
nine, palmately spreading from the top of the petiole, which 
is one and a half to two inches long, slender and terete. 
Flowers one to three in the axils of many of the leaves, one 
and a half to two and a half inches in diameter, broadly cam- 
panulate, drooping, dark orange-red, with blood-red veins 
and bases of the petals; peduncles slender, one half to one 
inch long. Calyx densely velvety-pubescent, tube hemi- 
spheric, lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate, quite entire, about 
one-third as long as the petals. Pefals orbicular-obovate, 
concave. Stamens very numerous, column of anthers oblong, 
dark orange-red. Carpels numerous, ten or more, hairy ; 
styles filiform, stigmas capitate. F-wit vesicular, small (ripe 
not seen).—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary, style, and stigmas :—magnified. 
