the embouchure of the Rio Brazos and from San Felippe 
de Austin in the interior, he has sent very valuable de- 
spatches both of the animal and vegetable productions. 
The present is one of two Ginorueras, of which seeds were 
transmitted from Brazosia, both of which have flowered 
copiously in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, during the 
months of August and September. In size and colour, 
the blossom vies. with those of GinoTHERA macrocarpa, 
Missouriensis, and grandiflora, but in other respects differs 
considerably from them and from every other with which 
we have had an opportunity of comparing it. It flourishes 
in the open air though a native of Texas. 
Descr. Stem decumbent, branched, succulent, soft with 
down as is the whole foliage, ten or twelve inches long in 
the wild specimens, attaining to a foot and a half or two 
feet in cultivation. Leaves three to five inches in length, 
elliptical, oblong, the upper ones obscurely toothed and 
sessile ; the lower sinuato-dentate, tapering at the base, so 
that thev may be reckoned petiolated. From the axil of 
each of “e leaves, a solitary large flower appears, destitute 
of fragrance. Peduncle short. Calyx often split into four 
segments and reflexed. Petals large, bright yellow, broadly 
rotundato-cordate, very patent. The young fruit is nearly 
cylindrical, striated, downy, scarcely more than an inch 
long, and but little thicker than the peduncle. 
Fig. 1. Lower portion of a stem with young Fruit : nat. size. 
