Tas, 8422, 
BRUNFELSIA wunpvutara. 
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West Indies. 
SoLANACEAE. Tribe SALPIGLOSSIDAE. 
Brunretsta, Sw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 911. 
Brunfelsia undulata, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. p. 90 et Fl. Ind. Occ. vol. ii. 
p. 1035; Hot. Reg. t. 228; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 200, partim ; 
Urban, Symb, Antill. vol. iii. p. 874; species B. americanae, Linn., affinis, 
corollae lobis undulatis fructuque subdrupaceo differt. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, usque ad 6 m. alta; caulis debilis, Folia ovato- 
lanceolata, utrinque attenuata, subacuta, integerrima, 6-18 cm. longa, 
2-4°5 cm. lata, glabra; venae tenues, dense reticulatae ; petiolus 6 mm. 
longus. lores solitares, terminales vel in axillis foliorum sammorum 
dispositi, breviter pedunculati. Ca/yx 2 em. longus, breviter irregulari- 
terque lobatus, extra glanduloso-pubescens; lobi obtusi. Corolla alba (an 
semper ?); tubus cylindricus, leviter curvatus, 8-9 em. longus, 5 mm. 
diametro, extra pubescens; limbus patens, 6-7 em. diametro; lobi 5, 
rotundati, 2°5 em. lati, marginibus undulatis. Stamina eorollae tubo 
aequilonga. Ovarium oblongum, calyce dimidio brevius ; stylus eylindri- 
cus, € corollae tubo paullo exsertus; stigma bilobum. Fructus subdru- 
paceus.—B. nitida, var. jamaicensis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 201. 
B. jamaicensis, Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 432, partim. 
The Brunfelsia which forms the subject of our illustration 
was first introduced to this country from Jamaica about a 
century ago, but the plant which supplied the material for 
the present figure is one obtained in 1904 for the Kew 
collection from Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. This plant 
flowered at Kew in October, 1909. It is a vigorous shrub 
of upright habit and, as the plate shows, bore numerous 
flowers in the axils of the uppermost leaves so as to form 
large clusters at the ends of the branches, In wild speci- 
mens, however, it is usual to find but one terminal flower. 
This species belongs to that section of the genus wherein 
the corolla tube is many times longer than the calyx. 
Within this section the various species are difficult to 
discriminate. In one of them, B. nitida, Benth., the calyx 
is divided nearly to the base; this character is also exhibited 
by the plant which was figured in the Botanical Register, 
at t. 167, under the erroneous name B. undulata. In 
B. americana, Sw., however, and in the true B. undulata, 
Marcu, 1919, 
