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HEIMIA salicifolia; var, erandiflora. 
Large-flowered Heimia. 
DODECANDRIA MONOG YNIA. 
Nat. ord. LyTHRACER. 
HEIMIA. Link § Otto. Calyx basi bibracteolatus, hemispheerico- 
campanulatus, lobis 6 erectis, sinubus 6 alternis patentibus corniformibus- 
Petala 6, lobis erectis calycinis alterna. Stamina 12 subsequalia. Ovarium 
sessile globosum 4-loculare. Capsula calyce obtecta. Semina minuta aptera. 
Frutices Americani glabri. Pedunculi unifori calyce breviores. Flores 
Jlavi. DeCand. Prodr. 3. 89. 
H. salicifolia; foliis ternis oppositis alternisque lineari-lanceolatis brevissime 
petiolatis acutis basi angustatis, petalis obovatis. 
Neszea salicifolia. Humh. Bonpl. §* Kunth. nov. gen. 6.192. 
Heimia salicifolia. Link & Otto abbild. 63. t. 28. 
var. grandiflora ; floribus difpld majoribus, ramis cernuis ad apicem usque 
Soridis. 
It is now about twenty years ago that a very pretty green- 
house plant was introduced to this country from the Royal 
Botanic Garden at Berlin, under the name of Chrysostemma 
salicifolium. It had light green shining leaves, and gay 
yellow flowers resembling those of a Lythrum except in colour. 
It had been raised at Berlin from Brasilian seeds. Ata sub- 
sequent period it was ascertained to be the same as had been 
described. by M. Kunth in Humboldt’s work on South Ame- 
rican plants, under the denomination of Nesea salicifolia, and 
its name was changed. Further enquiries led Messrs. Link. 
and Otto to the opinion that, properly speaking, the plant ng 
not a Neswa, and’ they proposed to call it Heimia, in —. 
ment to Dr. Heim, a physician of Berlin ; a allie ag y 
adopted by DeCandolle, but objected to by Endlicher, for 
reasons which it is needless now to discuss. 
This Heimia salicifolia rarely makes it <i ie the 
present day, notwithstanding that the beauty of its flowers, 2 
