a careful comparison of the leaves of P. pennatifolius with 
those of the Pernambuco plant (see Kew Bulletin, 1891, | 
p. 179) pronounced them to belong to different species. 
Fortunately, in 1882, ripe seeds of what has proved to be 
the true plants of Pernambuco, were presented by Dr. J. L. 
Paterson, of Bahia, to the Royal Botanic Gardens of 
Edinburgh, from which plants were raised and distributed. 
One of the latter, given to the Cambridge Botanic Gardens, 
flowered there in 1893. From it Mr. Holmes was enabled 
to draw up a full description; and finding it to be a new 
species, named it very appropriately Pilocarpus Jaborandi. 
The drawing here given was made from a plant com- 
municated to the Royal Gardens from Cambridge, which 
flowered in a stove in January, 1896. 
Deser.—A bush or small tree; branches, branchlets, 
petioles and rachis of the leaves hirtellous. Leaves alter- 
nate, pinnate; petiole short, and rachis terete, stout; 
leaflets 3-4 pairs with a terminal one, three to three and a 
half inches long, opposite, shortly petiolulate, oblong or 
elliptic, obtuse, retuse, or emarginate, coriaceous, quite 
glabrous, dark green and shining above, yellow green 
and glandular-dotted beneath, base slightly unequal ; 
nerves about eight to ten pairs, slender, arching. Racemes 
axillary, a foot long, slender, shortly peduncled, many- 
flowered, rachis terete, reddish-green ; pedicels about half 
an inch long, slender, spreading, with a minute triangular 
bract at the base, and two very inconspicuous rudiments 
_of bracteoles above the middle. Flowers a third of an inch 
broad. Calyx broadly cupular, obscurely broadly 5-lobed. 
Petals lanceolate, 1-nerved, dark rose-colrd., with golden 
margins and base. Filaments erect, about as long as 
the petals; anthers oblong. Disk undulate. Ovary de- 
pressed, top 5-lobed, stigma very short, 5-lobed. Fruit) 
about an inch broad, of three to five suborbicular fr 
thinly coriaceous or sub-crustaceous, dehiscent carpels, the 
sides of which are marked with concentric ridges. Seeds 
few, broadly oblong, testa black shining.—J. D. H. 
ee, 
Fig. 1, Flower-bud and edicel; 2, flower; 3, calyx, disk and ;4and 
5, stamen :—A// dulecgad: © need of tha: wee eee 
I 6 and 7, fruit and seed of the natural size; 
8, greatly reduced view of th 
e flowering portion of a young plant. 
