‘Tas. 4544, 
ASTRAPAHA viscosa. 
Viscid. Astrapea. 
Nat. Ord. ByTTNERIACE#.—MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores wmbellati (seu capitati), involuero communi polyphyllo 
(quandoque obsoleto) cincti, foliolis subrotundo-ovatis. Calyx 5-dentatus, extus 
l-bracteatus. Petala 5, more Malvavisci convoluta (convoluto-clausa, Lindl.). 
Stamina in tubum longe coalita, 5 sterilia, 20 (v. 15) antherifera. Ovarium 
5-loculare. Stylus 1. Stigmata 5. Ovula in Joculis pauca, inappendiculata. 
Lindl. 
AsTRAPRA viscosa ; arborea, ramulis viscosissimis, foliis cordato-rotundatis 3-5- 
angulato-lobatis serratis, lobis acuminatis, stipulis cordatis acutissimis, 
pedunculis axillaribus subterminalibus solitariis supra medium bibracteatis, 
involucro communi obsoleto, bracteis cordatis concavo-carinatis, pedicellis 
lobisque calycinis ovatis extus hirsutis, petalis patentibus, stammum tubo 
urceolato, filamentis sterilibus elongatis, antheris 15. 
Asrrapma viscosa. Sweet, Hort. Brit. (name only.) 
Dompeya Amelie. Guillemin in Archives de Bot. v. 1. p- 367. 
This is really a noble plant or tree, thirty feet in height, as 
now seen in the great stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew, with 
a large rounded head of copious branches, and dense foliage, 
studded, in the spring months, with numerous snowball-like 
capitula of flowers, each flower stained with a deep blood- 
coloured eye. M. Guillemin, |. c., has very correctly given the 
history of its introduction. “ Cette belle plante, he says, 
“ norte le nom d’ Astrapea viscosa dans Hortus Britannicus de 
M. Sweet, simple catalogue ott sa patrie originaire est indiquee. 
Il paroit qu’elle fut regue, en 1823, de Madagascar ; qu on la 
cultivé d’abord en Angleterre” (Royal Gardens, Kew), “pus: 
dans les divers jardins du continent européen. Yet, notwith- 
standing it has been thus liberally distributed from England 
upon the continent under the very apt name of Astrape@ea viscosa, 
M. Guillemin thinks fit to refer it to Dombeya (though it . 
truly an Asérapea, if that genus be distinct from Dombeya), an 
to change the appropriate specific name to D. Amelia, 0 ~ 
pliment to the estimable, now widowed, ex-queen of the French, 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1850. 
