Purdieane. N. O, Capparidea. 
TAB. DCLXIV. 
TovaRIA PENDULA. R, & P. 
Gen. Cuan. Cal. 8-sepalus, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis patentibus, 
persistentibus. Petala 8, disco elevato carnoso inserta lineari- 
oblonga. Stam. 8, disco sersto carnoso inserta, erecto- 
tentia.  Filamenta subulata. Anthere ovato-sagittatee 
antice pilosule, longitudinaliter ad marginem dehiscentes. 
tum, disco carnoso parvo impositum, 6-loculare, 
multiovulatum ; ovulis minutis dissepimenta tota tegentibus. 
Stylus brevissimus, crassus. Stigma dilatatum, 6-lobum, 
lobis recurvis, glandulosis. Bacca (vix matura) globosa, 
stigmate 6- ie coronata, 6-locularis, polysperma. Semina 
parva, reniformia, exalbuminosa? Embryo curvatus.—Herba 
Americe Meridionalis, ramosa, glabra. Folia alterna, trifolio- 
lata ; foliolis petiolulatis, lanceolatis, anguste acuminatis, 
penninerviis, integerrimis. Racemi elongati, terminales, brac- 
teati. Flores majusculi, albi. Bacca magnitudine Pruni 
avium. Odor totius plante Apii graveolentis. 
Tovaria pendula. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. p. 73, p.306. Don 
in Ed. New Phil. Journ. 1828. 
Bancroftia diffusa. Macfad. Fl. Jam. p. 112. 
Has. Woods between Chinchao and Pati, Peru; Ruiz and 
Pavon. Jamaica, Moore’s Gap, St. George's; s; Dr. "Macfadyen, 
Purdie. Caraccas, Linden, n. 24 
My first knowledge of this plant was from specimens sent by 
our Collector for the Royal Gardens, Mr. Purdie, from St. 
George’s, Jamaica, where Dr. Macfadyen gathered it some years 
previously ; and having no means of comparing it with Ruiz 
and Pavon’s little-known Peruvian plant, Tovaria, and not find- 
ing it to agree with any described genus in books which were 
accessible to him, that gentleman constituted of it a new genus, 
_ which he dedicated to Dr. Bancroft, and detailed its characters 
very carefully. I have since again received the same plant 
from the Caraccas. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f.2. Petal. /f. 3. Front, and /f. 4. Back 
view of a stamen. /. 5. Flowers, with the petals and stamens 
removed, A 6. Section of ovary. jf. 7. Scarcely mature 
leaves. f. 8. Transverse section of ditto; nat. size. f. 9. 
Seed. (f: 10. ‘Section of the same. Jf. 11. Embryo:—all more 
or less magnified 
