ancia longior, pube minutd appressd densd extis vestita; tubus subarcuatus, 
compressiusculus, basi tumidiusculus, in faucem 3plo longiorem depresso- 
campanulatam subtus ventricosam plicisque nonnullis longitudinalibus stria- 
tam dilatatus ; limbus brevis, guinquelobus, sursim obliquatus, lobis rotundatis 
intus villosis ; labii inferioris lacinie trine margine subcrispate et eroso-re- 
pande, media ceteris porrectior ; superioris brevioris breviisque fissi lacinie 
bine reflexe, medio inferné albe. Stam. 5: 4 fertilia ochroleuca, fauce duplo 
breviora, summo tubo inserta, ex utringue per paria conniventia (pari infe- 
riore paulo breviore), filamenta inferne secundum latus internum pilis flavo- 
capitatis (sterilis consimilibus ) cristata: 1 sterile rectum, fauce exsertum, 
medio albo-barbatum, penicillo corolle concolort terminatum, de infra 
medium deorsum attenuatum atque glabrum: anthere (ob loculum inferiorem 
custratum) unilobe, lineari-oblonge, ochroleuce; loculus cucullato-dehiscens, 
receptaculo fusco adnatus. Germen ovato-oblongum, acuminatum, compres- 
sum, nudiusculum, 2-loculare, dissepimento contrario, utrinque placentifero: 
stylus glaber, partim. persistens; stigma cuspis oblonga styl continua,, 
compressa, acuta, bilamelloso-partita, styli concolor, extis levis, lobis re-: 
plicatis. Don MSS. 
One of the finest shrubs that have been introduced into’ 
our hothouses, and now brought to flower for the first time 
in this country at the botanic garden of the Comtesse des 
Vandes, near Bayswater; an establishment superintended 
with great skill and intelligence by Mr. Mackay. 
Whether it is Catesby’s species, the origin of the Branon 1a 
ceerulea of Linnzeus, or not, is a point about which we have 
not -been able to convince ourselves. A prototype, though 
somewhat dilapidated sample, of Catesby’s plant is preserved 
in the Banksian Herbarium at Mr. Brown's; in that the leaf 
lets of the foliage are considerably larger and wider apart, 
than here; but then there is also in the same collection 
the leaf of a plant, raised, as said, by Miller at Chelsea, 
from seed of the species to which Catesby’s plant belongs, 
and received indeed from that naturalist himself: now this 
leaf we cannot well distinguish from those of the present 
plant; so that it is not impossible but that the smallness of 
the leaflets and their closer order may. haye arisen from the 
culture of so large a shrub in the confinement of a gar- 
den-pot and in a stove. Upon the whole, we are inclined 
to believe the two plants to be of one species. . 
Catesby’s plant is said to have been obtained from the 
Bahama islands: the present from the Brazils, and to have 
been introduced within these three years. But we know no 
good authority for the last statement. 
Two other species were observed by Messrs. Humboldt 
and Bonpland, and published in their great work on the 
