&2 THE LATE DR. BOSWELL. 



simple, 6-8-flowered ; flower-bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse. Calyx 

 slightly longer than the bract. Corolla 2 in. long. Capsule as long 

 as the calyx. 



Hab. Venezuela; Mountains of Tovar, alt. 3000 ft., Fendler 

 2166 ! Allied to T. psittacina. 



176. T. parabaica Baker. Yriesea parabaica Wawra, Itin. Prin. 

 Sax. Cob. 160, t. 33, 36b; Antoine, Brom. 4, t. 4. F. carinata var. 

 constricta "Wawra in Oester. Bot. Zeitsch. xxx. 183 ; French trans. 

 64. — Leaves about 20 in a dense rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 

 6-8 in. long, an inch broad at the middle, thin, flexible, subglabrous, 

 deltoid-cuspidate at the apex. Peduncle much shorter than the 

 leaves ; bract-leaves small, adpressed, imbricated. Spike moderately 

 dense, simple, 4-5 in. long; flowers 12-15, all erecto-patent ; 

 flower-bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1^-1^ in. long, bright red, green 

 towards the tip. Calyx yellowish green, reaching to the tip of the 

 bract; sepals oblong-lanceolate. Petals yellow, twice as long as 

 the calyx; limb oblong. Stamens longer than the petals. 



Hab. South Brazil; Woods of Juiz de Fora, Wawra & Mahj, 

 ii. 184. Very near T. psittacina. 



(To be continued.) 



THE LATE DE. BOSWELL. 



Edinburgh, on Dec. 1st, 1822, in the house now occupied by the 

 Philosophical Institution. His father was Patrick Syme, an artist 

 who paid much attention to Natural History, and who published an 

 illustrated work on the British Song-birds. His mother was a 

 Miss Boswell, a daughter of Lord Balmuto, and she also was an 

 excellent artist and very fond of Botany. Patrick Syme took an 

 appointment as teacher of drawing to the academy of Dollar, and 

 removed there when his son was very young, and it was at this 

 academy that the future Dr. Boswell was educated. 



From his earliest years he showed a decided taste for collecting 

 not only plants, but also insects and shells. After leaving school 

 he was apprenticed to a firm of engineers in Edinburgh, and after 

 serving his time with them was engaged as a land-surveyor for a 

 few years. Whilst travelling about in the exercise of his profession 

 he took advantage of every opportunity of botanical exploration. 

 The Scotch counties for which lie checked lists for Mr. Watson are 



I believe 



it was in 1850 that he unde 

 Botanical Society. In 



^uwuiicai oocieiy. m February of that year he read a paper ww 

 a meeting of the Society on the plants which he collected during a 

 visit paid to his relatives in Orkney in the summer of 18-10. It was 

 printed in the 'Transactions' of the Society (vol. iv. p. 49), and it 



Iprl tn a p^vac^^^., with j^. ^ ateon> fo e resu lt of which W2 



led to 

 that 



Botanical 



