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tened at the lower end ; from the same cause the roots are gene- ises. 

 rally broken into small pieces in the process, it being rather 

 brittle when fresh. The general height of the plant is about 

 four feet, but in some places it seems to grow stronger than in 

 others, and I saw considerable patches of the shrub quite six 

 feet in height. 



" I gathered many specimens of the plant in flower and fruit, 

 and also a small specimen of the root attached to the stem 

 and branches." 1 



The specimens here alluded to, consist of the pressed and 

 dried plant bearing flowers and fruits, and stems with roots at- 

 tached, the last being in every respect identical with the 

 Savanilla Ehatany of commerce. A slight examination sufficed Examination 

 to prove the plant a species of Krameria, and the next point of 

 interest was the determination of the species. Turning to the 

 newly published Prodromus Florce Novo-Oranatensis of MM. 

 Triana and Planchon, one finds three species of Krameria there 

 enumerated, namely, Kr. Ixina, L., Kr. grandiflora, St. Hil., and 

 Kr. spartioides, Kl., to the first of which Mr. Weir's plant proved 

 to be most nearly related. Unfortunately no specimen of Kr. 

 Ixina now exists in the herbarium of Linnaeus, but in that of 

 the British Museum there are two, representing that form of 

 the plant which has been figured by Hayne. 2 From this type 

 the New Granada plant differs in having leaves which in the 

 young and vigorous shoots have a spathulate rather than lan- 

 ceolate outline, besides which they are somewhat more hirsute. 

 In flowering shoots of less luxuriant growth, these differences 

 are far less marked, and the plant in this state appears to 

 vary but little from the true Kr. Ixina. The flowers and 

 fruits do not present, so far as I have observed, any marked 

 differences. 



Upon showing Mr. Weir's plant to my friend Dr. Triana, he at Dr. Triana's 

 once identified it as the Kr. Ixina of the Prodromus Florce Novo- identification - 

 Granatensis> distinguished in his MS. notes as var. /9. granatensis. 

 Considering the present state of our knowledge of the species 



1 Proceedings of the Itoyal Horticultural Society, Nov. and Dec. 1864, 

 p. 181. 



Arzney Gewachse, viii. 13. 



