1966 
* WIGANDIA caraeasána. 
Caraccas Wigandia. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNTA. 
Nat. ord. HYDROLEACEZ. î 
WIGANDIA. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens. Corolla infundibularis, 
limbo 5-partito patente. Stamina 5, exserta., Anther@ sagittate. Styli 2. 
Stigmata subpeltato-depressa. Capsula ovato-oblonga, bilocularis, (unilocu- 
laris m.) loculicido-bivalvis. Placente 4, bine in quolibet loculo laminzeformes 
(2, biloba, reflexe, polysperme m.). Humb. et Bonpl. n. g. et sp. pl. vol. 2. 
Römer & Schultes, 6. xviii. m 
W. caracasana ; foliis ellipticis acutis duplicato-dentatis (utrinque) hirto-tomen- 
tosis supra canescentibus subtüs incanis et mollissimis, spicis paniculatis. 
Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth. nov. gen. et sp. pl. 3. 128. Römer $ Schultes. 
Sp. PI. 6. 190. 
Planta culta in caldario orgyalis, a spontanea, quam coràm habeo, 
diversa est foliis viridioribus contextu lariore et aliquando costá venisque 
primariis hispidis, necnon floribus triplò majoribus. Ovarium certissime 
uniloculare est placentis bilobis revolutis, nec biloculare. 
A native of the Caraccas, where it was originally found 
at the Quebrada of Cotecita, at the height of 2880 feet above 
the level of the sea, by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland. 
To this country it was introduced from the Royal Garden at 
Berlin, whence it was sent to His Grace the uke of Nor- 
thumberland, to whom I am obliged for the specimen now 
figured. | 
It is a tender stove shrub, about six feet high, flowering 
at uncertain periods. 
* So named by Kunth in compliment to John Wigand, a bishop of hon 
rania, and author of Vere historie de succino prussico, et de herbis in 
Borussia nascentibus. Jena, 1590. 
