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Dbscription. — Shrub (10 feet liigh in the specimen described) erect, 

 everywhere glabrous, bark on tlie stem brown, cracked, and exfoliating; 

 branches spreiiding, twigs pruinosc, juice milky. Letiveg (C-13 inches 

 across) petiolate, glaucous behind, darker and more green in front, pal- 

 mate, 5-13-partite, in circumscription suborbicular, segments obovato- 

 cuneate, the outer the smaller, many of the middle ones often fiddle- 

 shaped, quite entire in the edge, apiculate, each with a strong middle rib 

 very prominent behind, slightly so in front, with many oblique, obscurely 

 reticulated, pale, and subdiaphanous veins. FHioles spreadmg or pendu- 

 lous, pruinose, round, considerably longer than the diameter of the leaf, 

 having a large quantity of pith in its centre, and terminated with a tuft of 

 short colourless hairs on the level of the front of the leaf. Stijmles long, 

 straight, erect, subulato-filamentous, cut in their edges, caducous. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, clustered, many-flowered, unilateral, spreading. Flowers 

 monoecious, cemuous. Bractem 2, subopposite above the base of the 

 pedicel, about equal to it in length, similar to the stipules, but smaller, 

 entire and marcoscent. Perianth smgle, glabrous, coriaceous, yellow- 

 ish-green, with ten broad longitudinal red stripes about the middle, 

 eonnivent in pairs towards their upper extremities. Male flowers : Pe- 

 rianth campanulate, 5-cleft, 10-ribbed, segments ovate, slightly overlap- 

 ping, blunt, revolute, the ribs passing alternately to their apices and 

 towards the sinuses, on approaching which they are cleft, and being af- 

 terwards repeatedly subdivided, they pass in scarcely reticulated lines 

 along the adjoining edges of two lobes. Stmnens 10, hypogynous : fila- 

 ments alternately shorter, more slender, eonnivent, scarcely reaching 

 as high as the sinuses of the perianth, alternate with the lobes ; the 

 longer stamens opposite to the lobes, follomng the course of the tube, 

 adpressed but not adherent to it, and reaching nearly to the middle 

 of the lobes ; anthers yellow, oblong, bilocular, emarginate at both 

 extremities, the loculaments on the inner side separated by a broad 

 connective, on the outside nearer each other, opening along the sides ; 

 pollen granules rather large, spherical. Dish largo, hai-d, orange-co- 

 loured, flat and depressed in the centre, marked round the ed^es 

 with ten notches for the passage upwai'ds of the filaments, which 

 are inserted below it. Female flowers fewer than the male, expand- 

 ing before them, placed at the lower part of the raceme ; perianth 

 single, pentaphyllous, caducous ; foliola ovato-lanceolate, rather un- 

 equal (the two inner being a little smaller than the three others), blunt, 

 spreading wide, undulate, revolute in their edges in their upper half, 

 concave in their lower half, or there sub-bisaccate and nectariferous, 

 each with three ribs, and several smaller ones towards the edges. Sta- 

 mens altogether awanting. Disk as in the male flowers, but only in- 

 dented on its lower side by the ribs of the perianth. Stigmata large, 

 multifid, colourless, orbicular -reniform, the sinus on the upper side. 

 Styles 3, short, united at the base. Oemien sessile in the centre of the 

 disk, green, glabrous, oblong, little more than half the length of the 

 perianth, 3 -celled, 3-lobed, the lobes becoming obscure as the germ en 

 enlarges. Ovides solitary, pendulous by a curved fleshy stalk from the 

 inner angle of the cell. 



Seeds of this shrub, whose foliage is renuurkably handsome, and the 

 flowers not without beauty, were received at the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 den, Edinbui^h, in 1830, from Mr Dick of Irvine. They were obtained 

 by him from Mr Tweedie, but in what part of South America they 

 were collected I cannot learn. The plant has been cultivated in sandy 

 peat soil, and kept in the stove, where it flowered abundantly at the 

 end of almost every branch in the end of May 1840, and again towards 

 the middle of June, before the first crop had wholly disappeared. It is 

 not probable that the plant will be long-lived, though at present in 

 great vigour, but there is every reason to believe that it will ripen 

 seed. 



In a genus known to vary so much as Janipha does, I have thought it 

 better to consider the plant now described as a variety of J, Loeflingiif 



