202 NOTES OF A BOTANIST chap.vi 
a frank, good-humoured face of the genuine Tuscan 
type. It was his great delight to unite at his table 
all the foreigners who passed that way, and I 
recollect having once heard seven languages spoken 
there, by people of as many different nations. I 
cannot resist recording here this tribute to my old 
friend's hospitality and other virtues ; and it was a 
great satisfaction to me when I was able to dedicate 
to him the finest new genus of plants I found on 
the Rio Negro, under the name of Henriquezia; 
one species of which i^H. verticillata) is a noble 
tree of 80 to 100 feet high, having its branches 
and leaves in whorls, and bearing a profusion of 
magnificent purple foxglove-like flowers. 
