too small, and too entire. They are generally, especially when full grown, lobed, and of 

 the size of the i)rincii)al leaf in tlie accom])anying figure. 



" The following is Dr. Roxburgh's description of this plant : — 



" ' Trunk straight, and of great size ; that of full-grown trees in their native soil about 

 15 feet in circumference 4 feet at)(>ve the root. Branches numerous, spreading, forming a 

 very large, ovate, shady head. Bark of the trunk and large l)ranches a.sh-coloured, and 

 smooth ; of tlie young j)arts clotlied with a little lioary puliesrence. Leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, .'{.y-nerved, cordate; margins entire, one of the loi)es (into which the liase is 

 divided) generally larger than the other ; uj)per surface smooth, hoary underneatli ; from 

 4 to 12 inches long, and the lireadth from li to 8. Petiole swelled at each end, the rest 

 round, and a little hoary; al)out ^ or \ the length of the leaves. Panicles terminal, 

 large, ovate, very ramous, with the ramifications rather hoary. Flowers numerous, pedi- 

 celled, collected in little fascicles ; colour bright yellow ; not fragrant, lint pretty large, and 

 shewy. CV/(?/,c inferior, 1-leaved, cainjiaiuilate ; //(/»v/(';- 4- or .')-toothed, hoary on the out- 

 side, smooth within. Carol. : i)etals 5, in the bud contorted, when expanded obliquely 

 oblong, yellow, spreading. Nectary or abortive filaments 5, linear, shorter than the 

 stamina, and standing between them and the germ, opposite to its 5 grooves. Filaments 

 numerous, slender, shorter than the petals, most slightly, or rather scarce, united at the 

 base, and inserted roujid the apex of a short turbinate receptacle. Germ superior, and 

 elevated on the turbinate receptacle, considerably above the insertion of the calyx and corol, 

 very hairy, conspicuously and deeply 5-lol)e(l, o-celled, each cell containing two ovules, 

 attached f>y their middle to tlie inner angle of the cell. Style single, 5-furrowed, length 

 of the filaments. Sliyma sim])le. Capsules from I to 5 ; 2 or 3 most frequent, round, 

 oval, about an inch and a half in diameter, and one inch thick ; of a firm, fibrous, woody 

 texture; surface gray, or ash-coh)ured, and somewhat downy, 1 -celled, 2-valved. Seed 1, 

 rarely 2, conftwm to the capsule. Inteyninents 2 ; exterior light brown, and friable : in- 

 terior membranaceous. Albumen none. £ffiir?/o conform to the seed, erect. Cotyledons 2, 

 nearly equal, amygdaline. Plumula small, villous, 2-lobed. Radicle oblong, inferior."' 



A stove plant, growing; freely in a mixture of peat and loam, and flower- 

 ing in September. We presume it is to be increased by ripened cuttings, 

 struck in sand under a hand-glass. 



This genus is not taken up in the learned M. De CandoUe's Prodromus; 

 and in Bartling's valuable work on Natural Orders it is placed among the 

 genera the afhnity of which is uncertain. It appears from the foregoing 

 account to be undoubtedly Tiliaceous, and closely related to Christiana, as 

 far as can be judged from the little that is known of that genus. Its principal 

 points of difference from the most genuine forms of Tiliacesc, are the absence 

 of a disk round the base of the stamens, its distinct pericarpia, and its want 

 of albumen ; but the disk may be supposed to be connate with the gyno- 

 phorus, which is very much thickened at the base of the stamens ; the 

 distinct pericarpia are found in Christiana; and albumen can scarcely be con- 

 sidered an essential character of the order. Bytmeriaceae, the only other 

 plants with which Brownlowia can be compared, are chiefly difterent in their 

 monadelphous stamens ; but this character seems to be so important as to 

 destroy the affinity that would otherwise be indicated by the sterile petaloid 

 stamens of the genus before us. 



J. L. 



