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* BROWN^EA grandiceps. 



Large-headed Browncea. 



MONADELPHIA DECANDBIA. 

 Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSJE CeSALPINIE^E. 



BROWNJEA. Jacq. Calyx tubo elongato, persistente, limbi quinque- 

 partiti, decidui laciuiis longis, duabus v. quatuor per paria cohserentibus. 

 Corollce petala 5, summo calycis tubo inserta, longissime unguiculata, sub- 

 sequalia. Stamina 10-15, cum petalis inserta, in tubum bine fissum coalita, 

 omnia fertilia. Ovarium stipitatum, sex-septemovulatum. Stylus filiformis; 

 stigma acinaciforme, compressum. Semina ovata, compressa, fibris fungosis 



obvoluta. ArbusculcB America tropica inermes, speciosce ; ]igao flavescente, 



duro, foliis paripi?matis, foliolis integerrimis, inflorescentia terminali, jloribus 

 racemosis v. plus minus dense spicato-capitatis, bracteatis, coccineis v. albis, 

 pedicellis apicem versus bibracteatis, bracteis in tubum infundibuliformem bilo- 

 bum connatis. Endlicber genera, no. 6810. 



B. grandiceps; foliolis sub- 12-jugis lanceolato-oblongis longissime cuspidato- 

 acuminatis eglandulosis, staminibus longitudine corollas, ramis petiolis- 

 que pubescentibus, floribus dense capitato-spicatis. DeCand. prodr. 

 2. 477. 



B. grandiceps. Jacq. coll. 3. 287. t. 22. f. a. i./ragm. t. 22 $• 23. Humb. 

 BonpU Kunth. nov. gen. $* sp. amer. 6. 313. Lamarck, illustr. t. 

 575. /. 2. 



Frutex in caldario strictus, orgyalis, trunco simplici, versus apicem tan* 

 turn ramulosus. Folia densa, multijuga, sessilia. petiolo ramulisque tomentosis ; 

 foliola infima cordata, superiora oblonga, omnia cuspidato- acuminata, undu- 

 lata, ad costam pubescentia, nunc opposita, nunc alterna. Bracteae 2, tomen- 

 tosce, obtusce, convexce, basi in tubum connatce, calyce breviores. Calyx tubu- 

 losus, glaber, tripartitus, lacinid supremd oblonga emarginatd, inferioribus ob- 

 longis obtusis indivisis. Petala 5, spathulata, rotundata, longe unguiculata. 

 Stamina 11, petalorum longitudine, basi monadelpha, calycis fauce inserta ; 

 antherae ovales subsagittatce. Ovarium stipitatum, tomentosum, stylo filiformi 

 ascendente, stigmate simplici ; stipite calycis tubo accreto. 



All the species of this genus are stove shrubs, inhabiting 

 the hottest parts of America. That before us was collected 



* So named by Jacquin in honour of Dr. Patrick Browne, the author 

 of a Natural History of Jamaica, excellent in its day. 



June, 1841. m 



