the celebrated garden at Eltham, it had long since disap- 
peared from amongst us, until procured afresh by Messrs. 
Colvill of the Chelsea Nursery from France. The reintro- 
duction into Europe is due to H. 8. H. Prince Maximilian 
of Neuwied, who had communicated the seeds, brought by 
himself from the Brazils, to Professor Link. Plants were 
raised in 1817 at the Berlin Botanic Garden, and published 
in the work we have quoted. by the title of P. bicolor, not 
having been recognised as P. Vespertilio of Linnzeus. 
The species is remarkable for its hours of blowing, which 
are from about ten o’clock at night to about eight the next 
morning. ‘The younger leaves have a,short dense scarcely 
perceptible fur on the under surface, where they are also 
often more or less tinged with crimson; a circumstance 
which has suggested the name of discolor.’ The original 
title is derived from the form of the leaf, which, with the 
two- glassy eyelike glands just above the petiole, had sug- 
gested to the fancy of Linnzeus the likeness of a Bat. 
Leaves dark green, extremely broad and shallow, with 
‘something of the outline’ of a bow when strung; studded 
with several brown irregularly scattered eyelike dots, besides 
the more remarkable pair on the inside of the base just over 
the petiole. Branches of the same colour as the leaves, 
smooth, flat, 2-edged. Peduncles solitary, 1-flowered, wiery, 
elastic, much slenderer than the petioles, shorter than the 
leaf, bracteless. Flowers without an involucre, green on the 
outside, white within, little more than an inch over. Ur- 
ceolus of the calyx broad and ventricose, furrowless and even, 
three times shallower than the limb: segments oblong 
slightly tapered blunt pointless keelless. Corolla tender, 
white: petals of the same shape with the segments of the 
calyx, but considerably smaller. Crown white; rays nume- 
rous in two rows; oufer filiform, spreading, serpentine, 
blunt, even with the calyx, if not longer, nner upright, 
twice shorter, straight, terminated by an acutely bent 
hook: operculum (lid of the nectary) white, deeply and 
closely plaited, vaulted and lapping by the inner edge over 
the short fleshy partition of the one-chambered nectary. 
Column rather shorter than the calyx, with a cylindrical 
reddish smooth shaft. _Germen oval, green, opaque. Stig- 
mas deep green, . Anthers pale. 
