supplementary to Enc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 457 



is a term indiscriminately applied, in South America, to all plants yielding 



a fibrous substance, and especially to plants of the pine-apple family, or 



TSromelidcecz, as the leaves of these plants are eminently endowed with 



fibre. As the beautiful tree just described is frequently more or less 



invested with the Tillandsia tisneoides L., and as this plant is included in the 



fibrous-leaved family of Jiromeiidcece, it is not unfair to infer the possibility 



of its being one of the plants called pita in South America ; and I have been 



led to this remark by the two terminal syllables of the native name of this 



tree, Couroupita, and the fact of the tillandsia's growing upon it. — J. D. 



LXXVI1. Legivminosce § Sophorese. 



1246. CHORO'ZEMA. 

 10499a triangulare Lindl. 3-angled prickled tt \ | or f ap S N.Holl. 1830. C^s.p Bot. reg. 1513 



Another of Mr. Knight's exquisite treasures, raised out of the stock of 

 New Holland seeds purchased by him of Mr. Baxter. It is closely related 

 to C. nanum, but Professor Lindley enumerates several points of specific 

 distinctiveness : it is a delicate plant, and requires a very airy dry shelf in 

 the green-house in winter. {Bot. Beg., July.) 



Professor Lindley adopts Smith's spelling of this generic name, and 

 quotes Smith's etymon, which is as follows : — " M. Labillardiere origin- 

 ally discovered this genus upon the south-west coast of New Holland, at 

 the foot of the mountains, in a loamy soil, near the spot where, after 

 having been tantalised with finding many salt springs, his party had just 

 met with an ample supply of fresh water. This welcome refreshment, of 

 which he speaks feelingly in his book, seems to have suggested a name for 

 this genus. He called it Chorozema, evidently from choros, a dance, 

 or joyous assembly, and zema, a drink, in allusion to the circumstance just 

 mentioned." 



Leguminosce § Tidtecs. 



1940. HO^VEA. 

 17284a villbsa Lindl. shaggy £ i_| el 3 ap Li N.Holl. 1829? C s.p Bot. reg. 1512 



Figured from the nursery of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. It differs 

 from H. purpurea Swt., its nearest relative, in being excessively shaggy, 

 instead of being merely covered with a very short dense pubescence ; the 

 reticulations of the leaves are also much larger and more distinct in 

 H. villosa than in H. purpurea. (Bot. Beg., July.) It seems a pleasing 

 and desirable kind. Is not its affinity to H. pannosa also very intimate ? 



CXXI. Pittospbreas. 



679. PITTO'SPORUM. 



cornifblium dm. l)ogwood-lvd. & \ | cu 3 mr Br N.Zeal. 1827. C p Bot. mag. 3161 



This is a curious, but not handsome, species. Mr. Cunningham met 

 with it, in 1826, in dark humid woods, by the rivers in New Zealand, 

 producing flowers in September, and ripe fruit about the close of the 

 year. He uniformly found it growing parasitically on tufts of Asteliae 

 (Astelia Banks«), and upon the trunks and branches of the larger timber 

 trees, particularly upon the kackatea, or Dacrydium faxifdlium of Lambert. 

 (Bot. Mag., June.) 



CXX1V. Tropceolece. That very elegant, perennial, herbaceous, green- 

 house, climbing plant, Tropae v olum tricolorum, is figured in the Bot. Mag. 

 for July, t. 3169., where the following admirable etymon of the generic 

 name is quoted from Smith : — " Tropas^olum, from tropaion, a warlike 

 trophy, from the shield-like leaves, and the brilliant flowers shaped like 

 golden helmets, pierced through and through and stained with blood, 

 which might very well justify such an allusion." 



CXLVI. Galacinecv. Francos Cav. (Don Francisco Franco, a physi- 

 cian of Valencia, who flourished at the commencement of the sixteenth 

 century. He was the author of several medical works, and an ardent 

 cultivator and promoter of botany.) 8. 1. Sp. 3. 



