The name of Soranpra was given to this plant by Prof. 
Swarrz, in honour of the late Dr. Souanver, pupil of Linnavs, 
the intimate friend and fellow-traveller of Sir Joseru Banks, in 
his voyage to the South-Seas. Although the author of very few 
publications, Dr. SoLanper was celebrated for his knowledge 
_ of natural history throughout Europe, and every Botanist, who 
has had the inestimable privilege of using the library of his 
right honourable friend and patron, has beet indebted to his 
labours: a source from whence was even derived almost the 
whole of the information respecting this plant, given by 
Swarrz, in the Swedish Transactions above referred to. He 
was born at Abo, in Finland, and died in London, at the age | 
of forty six, in the year 1782. 
There seems to have been difficulty in deciding on the 
natural affinities of this plant; Swartz thought it nearly 
allied to Portlandia, SonanpeEr to Besleria ; Jussteu and 
Lamarck make it a species of Datura; and SauisbuRy, 
contrary to Swarrz, allows it to-have the fruit of Datura, 
not granting any weight to the circumstance of its being 
a succulent berry instead of a dry capsule. At the same 
time he asserts, thiat the leaves being constantly alternate, 
never becoming opposite. in the flowering. branches, the 
nature of the mflorescence, the irregularity of the corolla, 
with the zstivation of the limb, are points by which, it recedes 
so far from. the Solance, that he proposes to erect it into a 
distinct order, together with Brunsf lsia and Crescentia; 
In Jamaica, it grows from out of old trees and the fissures 
of rocks. Is propagated by cuttings. Flowers at uncertain 
—. of the year. Mr. Sarissury fixes on January and 
chruary ithe Hortus Kewensis on March. Our specimen, 
was kindly communicated by Mr. Arron, in July last, from 
the Royal Gardens at Kew. | = — 
