have been cultivated by Miller in 1739; but if any one will 
turn to the plant described by that celebrated gardener in 
his Dictionary, he will convince himself, that it was perfo- 
liata, already published in this work (vol. 1. fol. 78), and 
not Murucuja that is there intended. The two have several 
peculiar features in common, though in the main they are 
widely distinct; both have a coloured calyx, a cupped ur- 
ceolus, a protruded column, a deflected operculum, an up- 
right conically contracted crown, and two-lobed lunulate 
leaves; but in Murucuja the crown is of one piece, the nec- 
tarium divided into 10 shallow cells by as many longitudinal 
fleshy septa, and the leaves are entire at the base; while in 
perfoliata, on the other hand, the crown is composed of many 
converging radii, the nectary is an undivided chamber, sur- 
rounded at the circumference by a single circular fleshy sep- 
tum, and the leaves are cordately indented at the base. 
Our figure was taken in August last in the hothouse of ~ 
the nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea; 
where the plant had been raised from seed received by Mr. 
Anderson, the superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden, 
from St. Domingo, where it was formerly found wild by 
Professor Swartz. We suspect that the present is the first 
instance of the species having flowered in this country, 
The samples in the Banksian Herbarium were collected 
by Swartz, and have solitary flowers, not twin ones, as de- 
scribed in the “ Observationes” of that celebrated botanist. 
