Tas. 5204, 
PSAMMISIA PENDULIFLORA. 
Pendulous-flowered Psammisia. 
Nat. Ord. EricAce®.—DeEcanpRIA MonoGynIa. 
Gen. Char. Psammista. Calyx urceolato-campanulatus ; limbo cupuleformi, 
breviter et late 5-dentato. Corolla tubulosa, basi ventricosa, limbo 5-fido. Sta- 
mina 10, distincta, inclusa, equilonga. Anthere biloculares, oblongo-lineares, 
apice breviter bifida, dorso supra medium affixee, basi liberee, scabree, alternatim 
latiores, subinde ad apicem connectivi dentibus 2 divergentibus aucte, angus- 
tiores semper edentule ; ¢wbulis levibus, anthera ipsa brevioribus, apice foramine 
dehiscentibus. Filamenta lata, brevia. Ovarium 5-loculare, loculis multi-ovu- 
latis. Stylus filiformis, strictus, plerumque exsertus. Stigma obtusum. Bacca 
coriacea, subexsucca, 5-locularis, calycis limbo cupuleeformi 5-dentato coronata, 
loculis polyspermis ; placentis in axi centrali versus apicem sitis, pendulis.— 
Frutices Americani, ramosi; foliis coriaceis, 3-5—1-plinerviis, magnis ; racemis 
axillaribus, robustis, corymbosis, solitariis, tegmentis destitutis ; pedicellis robustis, 
sensim incrassatis, apice articulatis bractea parva squamaformi suffultis ; calycis 
limbo eupuleformi, coriaceo. Kl. 
PsamMMISIA pendulifiora ; ramis teretibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis acu- 
minatis subdistichis glabris 3—5-plinerviis, racemis axillaribus subcorym- 
bosis pendulis, corolla coccinea infra apicem subito contracta viridescente. 
Psammista penduliflora. K?. in Linnea, v. 24. p. 43.  Decaisne, in Revue Hor- 
ticole, 1854, p. 5. #. 1. 
Tuipaupia penduliflora. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 562. 
Most of the South American Vacciniacee which have been 
arranged under Zhibaudia, are considered by Dr. Klotzsch to be 
sufficiently distinct to constitute a separate genus, to which he 
has given the name of Psammisia (from Psammis, a king of 
Egypt): and he enumerates no less than seventeen species, of 
which one, Ps. Hookeriana, K1., has been figured in this work, 
Tab. 4344, under the name of Zhibaudia Pichinchensis, var. B 
glabra, Hook. ‘The species are eminently handsome, and wor- 
thy of cultivation in a warm greenhouse. We owe the posses- 
sion of our present plant to Mr. Linden, who received it from 
the mountains of Caraccas. In some collections it bears the 
SEPTEMBER IsT, 1860. 
