This species appears never to have come under the no- 
tice of Botanists till it was raised at Boyton, from seeds 
which Mr. Lameerrt received from Demarara; Mr. Don, 
however, pointed out to us among Piumier’s unpublished 
drawings, a copy of which is contained in the Lambertian 
library, a figure of a plant haying considerable affinity 
with this, but scarcely belonging to the same species. 
The stem and foliage, in our figure, are very much 
reduced in size, the leaves exceeding a foot in length. 
