In June 1950, when I visited the Jardin Botdnico de 
Madrid, it was my exceedingly great pleasure to see the 
famous Mutis water-colors of Colombian plants, made 
by the artists of the Expedicién Botanica which investi- 
gated the flora of Colombia under the direction of Celes- 
tino Mutis from 1788 to 1808. 
Amongst the six thousand plates, there are several 
extraordinarily artistic and accurate illustrations repre- 
senting species of Herrania. These plates, labelled sim- 
ply ‘‘“Theobroma’’ by the artists, are all included in Vol- 
ume No. 28 under number 5333. They were determined 
as the several concepts of Herrania by Triana who an- 
notated each plate in his own hand in pencil and signed 
his annotations. It is of great interest to recall that these 
plates were made about half a century before the genus 
Herrania, and the three species so beautifully repre- 
sented by the Mutis plates, were described by Goudot in 
1844. 
One of the plates represents a fruiting and flowering 
branch of Herrania albiflora. Not only are ripe and un- 
ripe fruits shown in excellent detail, but a large number 
of flowers are depicted so painstakingly that it is clear 
that Mutis was able, so long ago, to differentiate between 
the patelliform calyx of Herrania albiflora and the sub- 
cymbiform calyx of the other species illustrated. No foli- 
age is drawn on the plate of Herrania albiflora. Triana 
correctly annotated this plate as ‘‘Herrania albiflora 
Goudot.”’ 
In the Mutis collection of plants in Madrid, there is 
asterile collection of leaves, misidentified as ‘‘ Theobroma 
Mariae,”’’ which also represent Herrania albiflora. They 
undoubtedly belong to the plant the flowers and fruits 
of which are portrayed on the Mutis plate of Herrania 
albiflora. 
Cotomsia: Exped. Bot. Mutisii Novae-Granat. (1788-1808) 3759. 
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