Tweediane. 
TAB. DLIV. 
A. Herm1a GRANDIFLORA. B.C. HEIMIA SALICIFOLIA. 
It is not that the plants here represented are novelties, or 
even unfigured in books; but they are introduced for the sake 
of illustrating hein specific distinctions, which appear to haye — 
escaped the notice of previous writers. ; 
1. Heimia grandiflora; calycis dentibus omnibus patentissimis. — 
Fie. Nosrr. A.—Heimia salicifolia var. grandiflora; Lindl, — 
Bot. Reg. 1841, tab. 60, (figure excellent) excluding the — 
synonyms, 
Har. South Brazil; Sellow, in Herb. Nostr. Buenos Ayres, 
and Rio Jacquray, "Prov. of Rio Grande; Tweedie. La Punta 
del Sauce, Province of Cordova. Dr. Gillies. é 
This is a truly beautiful plant, and I have never found the — 
open character of the calyx to vary; it is alike spreading belay 
and after inflorescence. Mr. Tweedie observes, from the 
spreading, yellow, sun-like flowers, it is called in Rio Gran 
* Abro Sol,” and that it is used, strewed in the houses, to 
away fleas, ‘‘ of which there are ‘plenty. - 
A. Portion of a flowering branch; nat. size. Fig. 1. Ca 
(after flowering): magnified. * 
2. Heimia salicifolia ; calycis seine interioribus post anti 
conniventi-clausis. Fie. nostr. B. 
a. floribus majoribus, ovario sme he j saberiobo, pre wee 
latis. Fie. nosrr. B.—Heimia salicifolia. Otto, I 
Pl. Berl. tab. 28. Beall Brit. Fl. Gard. é S. 460. Ne 
salicifolia. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 6, p. 192. 
AB. Mexico. Sides of the volcanic mountain of Jorullo 
Humboldt and Bonpland. Oaxaca; Andrieux, (in Herb. nosir 
Texas ; Plotz. 
8. foliis angustioribus, floribus minoribus, ovario globoso. FIG 
NOSTR. C. 
Has. Rio Jacquray ; Tweedie. 
is var. is scarcely deserving of notice but as a transitio: 
the next. 
y- floribus multo minoribus, ovario globoso, foliis lines 
H. myrtifolia. Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnea, 2, p. 347. 
Has. aye Brazil, and South Brazil; Sedlow. 
srs. Chamisso and Schlechtendal distinguish this 
: Guriins subsessilibus, capsula globosa :” and certa ead 
authentic native specimens possess peculiarly narrow | 
but I find none of these characters are constant, and all 
vars. have the closed segments of the calyx. 
