Tas. 5301. 
TOCHROMA GRANDIFLORUM. 
Large-flowered Jochroma, 
Nat. Ord. SoLANEZ,—PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNTA, 
Gen. Char. Calyx ovato-tubulosus, medio ventricosus, ineequaliter 5-dentatus, 
reticulatus, persistens et seepius accrescens. Corolla tubulosa, tubo longo sub- 
curvato, medio subinflato, calyce 2-6-plo longiore, limbo brevi subcampanulato 
5-partito, lobis acutis, estivatione plicata, Stamina 5, inclusa aut vix exserta. 
Filamenta tenuia, glabra vel infra medium villosa, corolle tubo imo adnata, 
infra medium libera, Anthere oblong, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, 
Ovarium obovatum, biloculare, ovudis plurimis, in dissepimento incrassato utrin- 
que affixis. Stylus filiformis, apice incrassatus, erectus, staminibus subzequalis. 
Stigma capitato-bilobum. Bacca ovata, calyce inflato inclusa, 2-locularis. Semina 
numerosa, compressa, reniformi-rhomboidea, in pulpa nidulantia, ¢esta scrobicu- 
lata, hilo in sinu laterali perforato. Hméryo intra albumen carnosum fere semi- 
annularis, filiformis,—Frutices Americe calidioris, tomentosi vel pubescentes. Folia 
petiolata, integra. Umbelle vel cyme pauciflora, sessiles vel breviter pedunculate, 
primum terminales, dein laterales. Corolle cyanee vel violacee, speciose. Dunal, 
Iocuroma (§Cleochroma) grandiflorum ; fruticosum, ramis teretibus pubes- 
centibus, foliis late ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis supra pubescentibus 
subtus pallidioribus subtomentosis penninerviis, nervis plurimis divaricatis, 
cyma simplici pedunculata terminali pluriflora pendula, pedunculo pedicel- 
lisque calyceque inflato pubescenti-tomentosis, coroll# infundibuliformis 
tubo longo pubescente, fauce subcampanulata, limbo amplo lobis 5 triangu- 
laribus patenti-recurvis, filamentis inclusis glaberrimis. 
Iocuroma grandiflorum. Benth. in Bot. Reg, v, 31 (1845), sub t, 20. Dunal, 
in De Cand. Prodr. 18, part 1. p. 491. 
Tocuroma Warscewiczii. Regel in Fl. des Serres, ser. 2, v. 1. t; 1163. 
CieocHRoMa grandiflorum, Miers, Illustr, of S. Am, Plants, v, 1. p. 150. @. 32, 
A very handsome species of Jochroma, hardly deserving to 
be held generically distinct, as Mr. Miers is disposed to con-— 
sider it, is very beautiful in its large rich purple flowers, which 
compensate for the rather coarse and Solanaceous foliage. It 
was discovered by Mr. Hartweg in mountains of Saraguru, 
Ecuador, and has since been found in Peru by Mr. Lobb and 
also Mr, Warscewicz; but by whom first introduced to our 
MARCH Ist, 1862. 
