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BOUVARDIA flava. 
Yellow Bouvardia. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CiNCHONACEXE. (CINCHONADS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 761.) 
BOUVARDIA, Salisb.—Cal. tubus subglobosus, limbus 4-partitus, 
lobis lineari-subulatis, dentibus interdum interjectis. Cor. infundibuliformis 
tubulosa elongata extus velutino-papillosa, fauce nudá, limbo 4-partito 
patente brevi. Staminum filamenta tubo inferne adnata a medio circiter 
libera, antherse lineares incluse. Stigma bilamellatum exsertum. Ovarii 
pars superior nuda. Capsula membranacea globoso-compressa bilocularis 
superne loculicido dehiscens, valvis semi-septiferis. Placente orbiculares. 
Semina in quoque loculo plurima compressa, deorsum (ex icon. Salisb.) seu 
sursum (ex icon. Cavan) imbricata, alà membranaceá cincta. Frutices 
Mexicani. Folia opposita aut verticillata. Stipule anguste acute petiolis 
utrinque adnate. Pedunculi terminales triflori aut trichotomi corymbosi.— 
Genus Manettia affine.— DeCand. Prodr. 4. 365. 
$2. Leaves opposite. Tube of the corolla beardless. 
B. flava; foliis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis acutissimis ciliatis subglabris, 
stipulis setaceis petiolorum longitudine, racemis terminalibus sessilibus 
3-5-floris pedicellis pubescentibus gracilibus, floribus nutantibus, calycis 
laciniis acuminatis ovario triplo longioribus. 
B. flava, ** Decaisne in Flora," fide Horti Vanhoutteani, p. 17. 
The little greenhouse plant now figured was introduced 
into this country by M. Van Houtte, Nurseryman, Ghent, 
and is mentioned in his Hortus as having been published by 
M. Decaisne in the Flora. It appears to be very distinct 
from all the species previously described, and is, we presume, 
a native of Mexico. That however is not stated by the 
anonymous author of the Hortus Van Houtteanus. 
In that work the leaves are said to be speckled with 
purple, a circumstance that has not come under our observa- 
tion. The flowers, however, are a clear pure yellow, and 
droop gracefully from their slender purple footstalks. 
Our drawing was made in March last, in the Nursery of 
Mr. Glendinning, of Turnham Green, to whom we are 
obliged for the following memorandum. 
