land, to remind me of this, where I have met with a kindness 
and a hospitality never to be forgotten *.” 
The particular seeds were marked as being “ called Man- 
canilla, and as having the smell of Chamomile;” and assuredly 
the odour is exactly similar, or rather more powerfully fragrant. 
The plant might probably with advantage be cultivated and 
used instead of that valuable herb in this country. We have © 
now raised it in our garden for two years, and can speak with 
confidence of its being a hardy annual, ripening abundance of 
seeds in the autumn, : 
— With regard to the genus of the present plant, it comes 
nearest, perhaps, to Santolina; but in charaeters it neither ac- 
cords with that nor any other that I can find described; and I 
have been induced to constitute of 1t a new genus, Gramia, a 
name which will thus serve to commemorate the Lady to whom 
we are indebted for the introduction and knowledge of the indi- 
_ vidual, no less than of my valued friend Dr Ropert Grawam, 
Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 
In the same genus will rank the Santolina tinctoria of 
Mo za, the “ Santolinoydes, Linaric folio, flore aureo, &c. 
of FErvuILLEE, Obs. v. 3. t. 45. p. 61. which accords with this 
in habit. It has, however, a perennial root, from which a num- 
ber of simple stems proceed, bearing linear leaves, which are 
quite entire, and taper down into a sort of footstalk at the base. 
The head of flowers is exactly similar, but more distinctly hairy 
and glandular, and the scales of the fruit are less decidedly 
fringed. This species is employed by the Chilians to yield an 
excellent yellow dye, and universally known to them by the 
name of Poguwil. I possess specimens gathered by my friend 
‘Mr Menzies at Chili, which exactly accord with FEUILLEE’s 
figure. 
Fig. 1. Heads of flowers. Fig. 2. Single floscule. Fig. 3. Scale of the 
Germen in fruit. Fig. 4. Stamens, upper part of the style and stigma. 
Fig. 5. Receptacle, from which most of the florets have fallen. Fig. 6. 
Fruit. Fig. 7. Lower leaf.— Ail but Fig. 7. more or less magnified. 
* Mrs Granam, who has returned to England from her second visit to South Ame- 
rica since the above was printed, confirms the circumstance of the seeds being gathered 
at Quintero, “ about thirty miles from Valparaiso, growing in blackish shining § sand, with 
the short-stalked longtlowered Evening Primrose, a pretty dwarf Torch-thisile, and the 
Sea-Strawberry.”—“ 'The name Manganilla,” she adds, “ is given to this plant, from a 
fancied resemblance to the smell of apples. Hence also the true Chamomile is called 
Manganilla of Castile, being introduced from that country, and cultivated in Chili.” 
