under very glaucous and woolly. The flowers are a dark 
purplish red, and appear imbedded in the leaves.” 
“« Ponta villosa of the French Gardens seems to be a va- 
riety of this species, and consequently is improperly referred 
by Desfontaines in the Catalogue of the plants of the Royal 
- Garden at Paris to Pzonra humilis.” Sabine MSS. 
We have to thank Mr. Sabine, the Secretary of the Hor- 
ticultural Society, for the liberal permission to engrave the 
annexed drawing by Mr. Hooker, and also for the commu- 
nication of the above account of this nearly unnoticed 
species. 
“ Linneus remarks, that though the most natural num- 
ber of the germens in this genus is, in his opinion at least, 
two, they are often more numerous; but he thinks they 
scarcely ever amount to five. Some newly discovered species 
however contradict this, and indeed most of the old ones 
afford reasons, at one time or other, for the union of the 
Linnean Orders from Digynia to Pentagynia, in the Class 
Polyandria, into one; which is sanctioned also by Deuput- 
nium, Aconitum and others.” Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in 
loco. 
_ The type of the genus seems confined to the northern 
hemisphere. No species has been observed in America. 
