Tab. 6356. 

 FEVILLExl Moorei. 



Native of Guiana ? 



Nat. Oxd. GccoaBiTACKJB.— Tribe Fbville«. 

 Genus Fevillea, Linn. [Bentli, et Hook. f. Gm. Plant, vol. i. p. 646). 



Fevillea Moorei; elabevrima, foliis ovatis longc acuminatis bad rotundatis tn- 

 nerviis membranaceis reticulata lucidis, cirrhis 2-fidis, racemis rnultifions, 

 bracteolis parvnlis, noribus masculia amplislateritiis.calycis lacuuis oblongia 

 obtusis, cor-ollse lobis rotundatis, staminodiis stannmbus opposite corolUB 

 adnatis oblongia obtusis basiconnatis, staminibus brevibua recurvis, anthens 

 subglobosis 1-locularibus, connectivo crasso. 



I received this plant in 1871 from Dr. Moore, of Glasnevm, 

 who had obtained it from Mr. Tyreman, of the Liverpool 

 Botanic Garden, some years previously, under the name of 

 " Strychnos Curari," and as being a reputed native ol the 

 Gambia, in Western Africa. Now, in so far as is known, 

 all the species of Fevillea are indigenous only in the West 

 Indies and South America ; and the name ascribed to this ot 

 Strychna Curari (which I find in no botanical work) points 

 to this having been supposed to be the plant producing the 

 famous Curari Wourari or Woorali poison, namely Strycfom 

 ttmfera, Benth., a native of Guiana and the Amazon river, 

 and which hence render it probable that America is the 

 native country of the present plant, On the _ other hand, 

 various genera otherwise confined to tropical Eastern 

 America, have solitary species in Western Africa ; so that 

 this may be an old world representative of a new world 

 genus. 



Fevillea Moorei differ from the other species known to me, 

 in its being quite glabrous, having entire 3 -nerved leaves, 

 and very large flowers with short staminodes ; the leaves are 

 obscurely biglandular at the base on the margin close to the 



afrit. 1st, 1878. 



