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CALDASIA heterophylla. 
Pair-flowered Caldasia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
CALDASIA. Cal. (inferus), persistens, tubulosus, ore 5-den- 
tato. Cor. (hypocrateriformis, flexa :) tubus angustus calyce longior, 
erectus: limbus (nutans,) 5-partitus, subbilabiato-rotatus, laciniis 2 su- 
perioribus collaterali-couniventibus, majoribus: 3 inferioribus subeguali- 
bus inter se, divergentibus. Fil. capillaria, declinata, corolla wgualia, 
Inserta summo tubo infra faucem. (Germ. trispermum.) Stylus capillaris 
longitudine staminum. Stig. 3, replicata. Caps. ovata, 3-gona, 3-luc., 
S-sperma, 3-valv., valvis. medio septiferis: recept. centrale, 3-quetrum : 
sem. elliptica. Herba ebracteata exstipulacea: radix fibrosa: folia 
sparsa, floralia opposita : flores axillares. Cavan. ic. 6. 21 (sub Bon- 
PLANDIA); nonnallis mutatis. 
C. heterophylla. Willd. hort. berol. 1. 71. t. 71. enum. 902. 
Bonplandia geminiflora.. Cavan. ic. 6. 91. t. 539. . ; 
Bonplande â tleurs axillaires. Poiret suppl. encyc. de Lamarck, 1. 678. 
; Herba graveolens, annua? dense subviscoso-pilosa pilis patentissimis articu« 
latis diaphanis glandulosis, Caulis erectus, 1-2 pedalis, teres, spars? ramosus, 
ramis ascendentibus superné versis remote floriferis. Folia distantia, varicoso- 
nervosa rachide mediá nervos plurimos parallelos costatim approximatos et sur» 
sùm obliquatos utrinque emittente; inferiora sparsa, petiolata, oblonga, sub- 
lyrata, acuta, serrata, 3-4-uncialia, ramea superiora asita unica alterne 
rifero, gradatim decrescentia, subsessilia, elliptic nceolata, integriora, 
versús basin longiìs attenuata, Flores pedunculati, gemini, terminales et per 
alterna paria axillares, foliis breviores: pedunculi 1ftori, paralleli, erectius- 
tuli, subequantes calycem. Cal. membranaceo-herbaceus, gus, tubulosus, 
anguste turbinatus pentagonus angulis extenuato-prominentibus et nervo medio 
parallelo interceptis, 5-fidus segmentis erectis ovatis angulato-acuminatis, intis 
glaber, tubo cum fauce simul equalis, Cor. 4 uncies-lónga, tubus pallidus, 
cylindricus, ad faucem ubi flexus atque. dilatatus postic? pubescens: limbus 
violaceus, glaber, laciniis wrda ogi; binis supremis basi intis alba 
areolâ lineis violaceis figuratd notatis. Fil. conniventia, basi barbata et sursum 
pilis nonnullis vagis conspersa, subequalia: anthere dorso appense, extror- 
sùm verset. Gens. parvum, ellipticum, viride, glabrum: ‘stig. intis pue 
bescentia, 
The first notice we trace of this plant is in the works of 
Cavanilles, where it founds a genus, by the title of Bon- 
PLANDIA, given in honour of the associate and coadjutor of 
Monsieur de Humboldt. But in a tract in the Transactions 
of the Berlin Academy for 1802, Professor Willdenow has 
attributed the same title to a genus instituted from the tree 
which affords the drug called * Angostura Bark," aud 
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