cultivated in our gardens, we reluctantly yield up Poiretia, 

 rather than run the ri(k of occafioning confufion of names. 



The plant here figured, is certainly a diitinct fpecies from 

 either of thofe recorded in the Hortus Kewenfis ; but we are 

 not quite certain that it is the diverjifolia of the Bankfian Her- 

 barium, which Mr. Brown propofes to call by the name that 

 we have adopted for our plant. Nor, indeed, for want of an 

 opportunity of examining the original, either in a living or in a 

 dried ftate can we be altogether certain of the identity of the 

 genus, as Mr. Brown has favoured us with a fight of fpecimens 

 not very unlike our plant, which he conhders as belonging to a 

 diltinft, though nearly related genus. 



Our plant was communicated in the beginning of April 1813, 

 by Meffrs. Malcolm and Sweet, from their extenfive col- 

 lection at Stockwell-Common. Native of New-Holland. Re- 

 quires the fhelter of a greenhoufe. 



