No, 1068. 
MU E LATIFOLIA. 
kanis POL iNDi 
This is a native of Peru, and also of the 
Island of Grenada, whence we received it 
from our excellent friend, Mr. Ross. The 
genus was first published by Ruiz and 
Pavon, in the Flora Peruviana, and named 
by them in honour of King Charles the 
Fourth and Queen Louisa, the munificent 
"patron and patroness of their work, and of 
botany. 
At that period, the court of Spain de- 
voted princely sums to botanical researches; 
but how different is the case now! as is 
well observed by an able writer, ** Botany 
in Spain, like all other liberal sciences, may 
be said to have no existence; in that un- 
happy country, its professors are banished, 
its gardens desolate, and all that mighty 
support, which was once bestowed x 
them, withheld.” 
