Tas. 70338, 
BROWNEA macropuy.na. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Leauminosz.—Tribe AMHERSTIER. 
Genus Brownra, Jacg. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 577.) 
Brownea macrophylla ; ramulis petiolis petiolulisque brevibus ferrugineo-lanatis, 
foliolis 5-jugis oblongis obovato-oblongis oblanceolatisve caudato-acuminatis 
glaberrimis, capitulis maximis basin versus trunci sessilibus multi-densifloris, 
bracteis exterioribus amplis rotundatis interioribus oblanceolato-spathulatis 
pubescentibus, bracteolis 2 in tubum 2-fidum connatis, calycis lobis liberis v. 
varie connatis, petalis staminibus multoties brevioribus anguste unguiculatis 
oblongis obovatisve vexillo 2-fido, staminibus 10-12 longissimis, ovario 
tomentoso. 
B. macrophylla, Masters in Gard, Chron. 1873, p. 777, fig. 149; The Garden, 
vol. xv. p. 436, t. 182. 
B. antioquensis, Linden Catal. No. xxiii. p. 3 (name only). 
By far the handsomest of hitherto known Browneas, 
though from the habit, hereafter to be alluded to, of 
bearing its flowers at the base of the trunk, and of their 
short duration, it is little hkely to be cultivated for its 
flowers. Dr. Masters, who was the first to describe it, 
adopting the name it bore in the garden of its owner, Mr. 
Crawford of Lakeville, near Cork, states that he strongly 
Suspects it to be B. cauliflora, Poepp. and Endlicher, a 
native of Peru, which he says differs in the white flower 
and more numerous (fifteen) stamens; but far more im- 
portant characters than these are the perfectly glabrous 
branches and petioles of B. cauliflora, its leaves not being 
acuminate, its very small heads, its short calyx-tube, and 
its silky petals. B. cauliflora is further a native of 
Maynas in the Peruvian Andes, whilst Linden’s name 
for B. macrophylla shows it to be a native of New 
Grenada. 
Shortly before his lamented death, Mr. Crawford, whose 
gardens are celebrated for the number of fine plants that 
have flowered there for the first time, notably several 
species of Brownea, and the Magnolia Campbellii (Tab. 
nost. 6793), wrote of this plant that it grew in a lean-to 
JANUARY Ist, 1889. 
