where it is cultivated in the hothouse and flowers late in 
the autumn. , 
We were favoured with the sample for our drawing from 
the Kew Collection. 
The species is marked by several peculiarities that sepa- 
‘rate it widely from every other upon record except longipes, 
from which it is however distinguishable as follows: in 
longipes the leaves are ovately lanceolate and taper-pointed, 
the petioles have four stipitate calli or glands, the involucre 
keeps its place during the expansion of the flower, which, 
according to Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland, who ga- 
thered it on Mount Quinditi in New Granada, is of a pale 
rose-colour. It is from the samples of those celebrated 
travellers that the species has been recorded and figured by 
M. de Jussieu in the Annales du Muséum. Whether the co- 
lumn of the fructification is there curved and inclined, and 
the stamens unequally divided and directed to one side, 
as in albida, are points that cannot be determined either by 
the figure or description. If not, the present species is, as 
far as our observation extends, an anomaly in the genus. 
Albida is an extensively growing shrub, with an 
apple-green foliage and greenish white scentless flowers, 
which open before sunrise, begin to fade about noon or 
earlier, are produced in the axils of the leaves of the upper 
part of the branches and stem, and measure about three 
inches over. Their stalk is extraordinarily long and robust 
for the genus; and continues growing for a considerable 
time after the leafy involucre has dropped off. The oper- 
culum (lid of the nectary) is radiate and reaches rather 
above the base of the crown. 
