the petals closed. Germen with one large, white, almost 
triangular wing, and two obsolete ones. 
From the Botanic Garden of Liverpool, whence it was 
communicated as having been received from Professor 
Leaman, of Hamburgh, under the name of B. grandis ; but 
there is already a Japanese species of that name, and cer- 
tainly very different from our’s, which, moreover, appears 
to me to accord with the B. reniformis of Dryanper, a 
mesh of Brazil, the native country also probably of our 
ant. 
: It is a good deal allied to the B. longipes of this work, 
t. 3061, especially in the general structure of the inflores- 
cence ; but in that species, the flowers are considerably 
larger, the leaves are much more oblique, and extremely 
glossy, and quite glabrous above. 
B. reniformis requires the heat of the stove, and its flow- 
ering season is January. 
It is quite impossible, by a drawing, to convey an idea of © 
the peculiar pearly and semi-transparent appearance of the ~ 
blossoms, and of the panicle in which they are borne. 
Fig. 1. Female Flower, considerably magnified. 
