Upon consulting Mr- Lamperr’s\herbarium, we find the 
very specimen after which the drawing of Reneaumia cal- 
carata in the Botanist’s Repository was made, from which 
we aré satisfied tliat oar plant is very different from it; the 
leaves of calearata being narrower, more linear, smooth at — 
the edge, and without any subulate elongation of the point. 
At the same time we must acknowledge that Atpiia calcarata 
of the Botanical Register, the GLoppa erecta of Repouts, may 
be a mere variety of our plant with an upright instead of a 
drooping peduncle. We believe too that the calcarata of 
Roxsuren, though not’ the ‘one figured in the Botanist’s 
Repository, may be.only a variety of our plant ; for although 
he describes it. as having an erect racenie, yet we find in 
Mr. Lamserr’s herbariuma specimen from Roxsuren himself 
of calearata, which has a drooping raceme,. and appears to be 
in no respect different from our plant. That this bending of 
the peduncle is not, however, an accidental circumstance, 
We are satisfied from the number of specimens we have seen — 
im the same condition. In the Banksian herbarium. is a 
specimen, sent from the East-Indies by Dr. Roxsuren, under 
the name of AMomum. racemosum, which, though imperfect, 
appears to be evidently the same species as our plant. To 
this is affixed a note by Mr. Saxispury, signifying that it is a 
congener of Atprnia nutans, than which it has been a longer 
fime in our gardens, having been introduced by’ the. late 
Mr: Starer,'when he first began to collect. This must have 
been ‘before the year 1790.9 = ae 
The spur-like processes at the base of the nectarium, 
supposed by Brown to be the rudiments of the lateral lacinie, 
are not peculiar to calcarata, but common to most, if not 
all of the species of the genus ; and are indeed found, more 
of less, in most of the natural order, where the two lateral — 
lacinia are defective. In Aupinta mutica, however, to which 
species we were at one time inclined to refer our plant, and 
_ from which, ‘perhaps, it may not be specifically distinct ; 
Lo are said by Roxguren to be entirely want- — 
ng. It also differs from the present subject, in having a larger” 
ree nectartum and an erect raceme. = = 
We have, on the authority of Mr. ‘Sanispury, already 
stated, that this plant was introduced by the late G. SuaTER,. 
Esq. before the year 1790. Propagated by suckers. Flowers: 
in June. Native of the East-Indies. Communicated. by 
Joux Warken, Esq. of Amo’sGrove. 
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