Tas. 5346. 
HIGGINSIA REFULGENS. 
Shining Higginsia. 
Nat. Ord. Rustacem, § Heprorrpp®.—Terrranpria Monoeynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5280.) 
Hieeinsta refulgens ; patentim pilosa, caule crasso, foliis sessilibus obovato- 
oblongis acutis basi attenuatis utrinque pilosis subarcte plicato-nervosis 
pallide fusco-viridibus rubro tinctis subtus sordide rubris pallidis, floribus 
subcymosis, cymis longe pedunculatis, calycis tubo tetragono lobis triangu- 
lari-ovatis acutis, corollee lobis patentibus rubris linearibus subacutis. 
Campytosorrys refulgens. Hort., 
A very beautiful plant, native, it is presumed, of South 
America, of which a plant was presented to the Royal Gardens, 
by Mr. Ball, from his Nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, under the 
name of Campylobotrys fulgens. \t flowered in May of the pre- 
sent year. It has already been shown in this work, under Z. 
regalis, t. 5280, that the genus Campylobotrys has been referred 
by Planchon to the long-established Aigginsia of Rersoon, the — he 
same as O’ Higginsia of Ruiz and Pavon. he present species is 
closely allied to H. discolor (Campylobotrys discolor, Bot. Mag. 
t. 4530), but differs in the more robust habit, sessile leaves, 
much larger flowers, and different calyx. 
Descr. A succulent, pilose, erect, branching derd, with erect, 
purple, almost terete dranches, opposite leaves, and axillary, soli- 
tary, long-peduncled cymes of red flowers. Leaves three to five 
inches long, narrow obovate, subacute, contracted at the base, but 
not petioled, the margins of the blades of the opposite pairs meet- 
ing, rather succulent, but not coriaceous, marked with numerous 
parallel veins, upper surface dull-green, but very beautiful, owing 
to the suffused red tint especially towards the margins, and the 
play of reflected lights from the cellular surface ; under side pale 
reddish. Peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter than the pale-green 
leaves, erect, slender, purple-red, pilose, bearing a short cyme of 
NOVEMBER lst, 1862. 
