ON THE PARAGUAY TEA. 31 
* (G]aberrima, folis cuneato-lanceolatove ovatis oblongis 
obtusiusculis remote serratis, pedunculis axillaribus multi- 
partitis, stigmate quadrilobo, putaminibus venosis." 
In 1824, Mr. Lambert, in a Supplement to his truly splen- 
did work on the Pines, gave a description, and the first figure 
of this most interesting plant, under the name of Ier 
Paraguayensis ; a denomination which I adopt, partly because 
I think it best indicates the country whence our first know- 
ledge of it was derived, and also because M. de St. Hilaire 
himself, in the preface to his “ Histoire des Plantes les plus 
remarquables du Brésil et du Paraguay," had cancelled his 
previous appellation, probably on account of its inaccuracy, 
and adopts that of Jlex Maté. However appropriate this 
name may be, that of Mr. Lambert had surely the right of 
priority in its favour, and is, in every respect, unexception- 
able. 
'The costly nature of Mr. Lambert's work has caused it to 
bea sealed book to the general reader; and his interesting 
account of the plant, together with the possession of a living 
Tlex Paraguayensis in the Botanic Garden of Glasgow, have 
often made me desirous of publishing some account of it in 
a more popular form ; but the want of flowering and fruiting 
specimens for a long time deterred me, though I applied in 
every probable quarter for them, and for information on 
the subject. Mr. Tweedie, at length, with great difficulty, 
obtained for me a barren specimen from a Frenchman, who 
had visited Paraguay ; and about the same time I was favoured 
with a fruiting specimen by the Horticultural Society of 
London, equally from Paraguay. These are figured in our 
AB. L, and precisely accord, as to the foliage, with Mr. 
Lambert's figure. My next knowledge of the species was 
from Mr. Gardner, who sent me specimens, sparingly in 
fruit, gathered in the Organ Mountains (N. 346 of his col- 
lection), with the remark, * I did not meet with this in flower ; 
but the structure of its fruit refers it to Lew, as it agrees in 
every respect with St. Hilaire's description. It formsa small 
upright growing tree about 15 feet high. At Mr. March’s 
