244 MR. W. FAWCETT ON BRUGMANSIA LOWI. 
2-4-lobatum v. dentatum ; stylus 1, terminalis, crasse filiformis, elongatus, dimidio 
superiore stigmatosus; ovulum in axe ovarii consitum, erectum atropum toto 
ambitu ovario coalitum. 
Fructus flore femineo tumidior, styli inferiore parte intra ovarii tubulosum marginem 
persistenti, margine apicali in pilei duri speciem connivente; endocarpium in puta- 
men tenue induratum ; epicarpium carnosum. Semen endospermio copioso oleoso ; 
embryo subglobosus, axilis interdum excentricus, ad trientem endospermii 
superiorem consitus. 
Herba carnosa cerigera ; rhizoma cylindraceum, esquamatum, tomentosum vel glabratum ; 
volva lobato-dentata. Pedunculi brevissimi v. elongati, squamis imbricatis tecti; 
squamsze superiores spadicem involucrantes, persistentes. Spadices $ depresso- 
hemispherici; 9 hemisphseriei v. subglobosi. Flores ebracteati v. bracteolis ad 
basim fl. 4 minutis, 9 stratum continuum efformantes. 
III. ON Bruemansia Lowr, Beccari. 
Blume, in 1827, described a parasitic plant from Java, a near ally of Rafflesia, 
under the name of Brugmansia Zippelii*. For his new genus he revived a generic 
name given by Persoon, in honour of S. J. Brugmans, to plants afterwards placed under 
Datura. In 1829 he published an elaborate description of it, accompanied by coloured 
plates, in the ‘Flora Jav:e' f. Тһе genus is quite distinct from Rafflesia in the absence 
of the corona of the perianth, the induplicate sstivation, the capitate genital column, 
and the two-celled anthers. 
Beccari, in 1868, published a diagnosis | of a new species ( B. Lowi), and, in 1869, à 
detailed description with plates. These plants were in bud only; and, in Hooker's 
monograph of the Cytinaceze in De Candolle's ‘Prodromus,’ he evidently did not consider 
Beccari’s new species quite satisfactory, and therefore placed it as a variety only of 
В. Zippellii, Blume.| In 1874, in a paper **Osservazioni sopra alcune Rafllesiacee," 
Beccari refers to the question of its being a good species є, mentions that he has since 
had opportunities of examining В. Zippelii, BL, and quotes from his former paper the 
following passage, in which he had stated the differences :—* Brugmansia Zippel, 
according to the figure and description given by Blume, seems somewhat smaller than 
B. Lowi, has the interior of the perigone uniformly pilose, ramentaceous, and furrowed 
with numerous striæ (instead of fourteen to sixteen ribs), which disappear in the 
ventricose part of the unopened flower; at the throat, in place of the tufts of hairs, it 
* ' Bijdragen tot de natuurkundige wetenschappen, Amsterdam, ii. (1827), p. 422. 
+ Vol. ii. Rhizanthese, p. 13, tt. 4-6. 
t Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 197 (1868). 
$ “ Шиѕіталіопе di nuove specie di pianti Bornensi,” Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. i. p. 84, t. 5. 
| DC. Ргодг. xvii. р. 118, 1873. 
4 Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. vii. p. 74. 
