Humea. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 641 
gynia of Linneus, and many stand between Pteros- 
permum and Sterculia in Jussieu’s natural order Mal- 
vacee, and as the plant named by Dr. Edward Smith, in 
honour of the late Lady Amelia Hume, had somewhat 
earlier been described and published in France, under the 
name Colomeria,* consequently if that name was prior- 
to Dr. Smith’s, it must have the preference on that ac- 
count. Dr. R. takes the liberty of consecrating this ge- 
nus to the memory of that most amiable lady, by whose 
death Botany has lost one of its greatest admirers and 
best benefactors. 
Trunk straight and of a great size; that of fall grown 
trees in their native soil about fifteen feet in circumfer- 
ence four feet above the root. Branches numerous, 
‘spreading, forming a very large, ovate, shady head: 
‘Bark of the trunk and large branches ash-coloured and 
smooth, that of the young parts, clothed witha little hoa- 
ry pubescence. Leaves alternate, petioled, from three to 
‘seven-nerved, cordate,*margins entire, one of the lobes 
into which the base ,is divided, generally larger than 
the other, upper surface smooth, hoary underneath, from 
four to twelve inches long, and from three to eight 
broad. Petioles swelled at each end, the rest round, 
and a little hoary about one-third or one-fourth. the length 
of the leaves. Panicles ‘terminal, large, ovate, very ra- 
mous ; with the ramifications rather hoary. Flowers 
numerous, pedicelled, collected in little fascicles, colour 
bright yellow, not fragrant, but pretty large and showy. 
Calyx inferior, one-leaved, campanulate; border four 
or five-toothed, hoary on the outside, smooth within. 
-Corol. Petals five, in the bud contorted, when expanded 
obliquely-oblong ; yellow, spreading. Nectary‘or abortive 
filaments five, linear, shorter than the stamina, id 
“Cece” : 2 eae ee 
