ON A NEW SPECIES OF CALYCOPHYLLUM. 621 
solitariis brevibus occultis, petalis semipollicaribus, siliculis 
oblongis 15-20 spermis. (Tab. XXI.) 
Has. In Andium Peruvianorum monte Asuay, 15,000 ped. 
alt. Jameson. 
Planta humilis, perennans, glaberrima. Rhizoma simplex, 
verticale, 1-2 pollicare, apice incrassato, fasciculum foliorum 
edens, inferne attenuatum, sublignosum, albidum, squamis 
brevibus scariosis, foliorum vetustorum vestigiis arcte ves- 
titum. Folia primo aspectu monocotyledoneam referentia, 
basibus dilatatis, scarioso-membranaceis, imbricatim ad- 
pressis, vix pseudo-bulbum efficentia, hinc erecto-patentia, ob- 
longo-linearia, 13 poll. longa; 2-3 lin. lata, integerrima, obtusa, 
crassiuscula, obsolete trinervia. Flores, pro planta magni, 
albi, e fasciculo foliorum emergentes; pedicelli solitarii, uni- 
flores, axillares, folio multo breviores et ideo florentes oc- 
culti. 
Tab. XXII. Plant of Eudema grandiflora, Planch.; mat. 
size, f. 1. Flower; f. 2. Stamens; and pistil f. 3. Silicula; 
f. 4. One valve of the silicula showing the incomplete 
Septum above, and the seeds; f. 5. Seed; f. 7. the same laid 
open, showing the embryo :—magnified. 
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Description of a new Species of Ca.xcoruyLium from British 
Guiana ; by the CnEvAL1ER Rost. H. ScHouBunGk, Ph. D. 
(Tass. XXIII. XXIV.) 
What a splendid aspect our Rose bushes afford under the 
temperate zone! That favourite plant, alike cultivated by 
the poor and the rich, how they ornament the garden, and 
adorn the hedges surrounding our fields, when in full blos- 
Som. Let then imagination convey you to the great garden 
of nature in Guiana, clothed in tropical exuberance ; and 
among those productions of a congenial sun and fertile soil, 
to yourself trees from 40 to 50 feet high, presenting a 
mass of leaves of the colour of our fayourite flower, from a 
deep pink to the lightest rose, and perhaps your fancy will 
