Tab. 5453. 

 MACLEANIA speciosissima, 



Splendid Maclean} a. 



Nat. (3rd. VacCinib.*. — Decandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Macleania, Hook. Calyx truncatus, obsoletissime 5-dentatus, 

 5-alatus, inferne ovario adherens. Corolla cvlindracea, non raro angulata, limbo 

 6-fido. Stamina 10, basi corolla; insorta, jilamentis per totara longitudineiu in 

 urceolum connatis. Antherce basi affixae, dorso muticae, apice in tubum simplicem 

 attenuate, et rimula singula introrsum dehiscentes. Ovarium quinqueloculare, 

 multiovulatimi. — Frutices America tropica Andina, Jtabitu Tkibaudiae. Folia 

 coriacea, integer rima, trinervia. Flo res speciosi fasciculati vel racemosi. 



Macleania speciosissima ; fruticosa, ramis elongatia pendentibus, foliis ovatis 

 obtusis distichis brevipetiolatis trinerviis, floribus copiosissimis fasciculatis 

 nutatitibus, calycis tubo 5-alato; corollis 12-14 lineas. longis tubuloso-sub- 

 urceolatis 5-angulatis, limbi lobis par vis subpatentibus. 



Thibaudia elliptica. Hort. Lind. (fide Bateman), non Ruiz et Pav. 



Rarely have we seen a more lovely flowering shrub than that 

 we have now the satisfaction to figure, from a specimen sent to 

 us by James Bateman, Esq., from his collection at Biddnlph 

 Grange, Congleton, after having attracted much attention at one 

 of the Exhibitions of the lloyal Horticultural Society at Kensing- 

 ton Gore, in April of the present year. By that gentleman it 

 was received from Mr. Linden, under the name of " Thibaudia 

 elliptica ;*' but it certainly is not that plant of Ruiz and Pavon, 

 but is clearly a species of Macleania, yet not according with any 

 of the ten species of that genus given by Dr. Klotzsch in his 

 classification of the group of "Bicomes" published in the 24th 

 vol. of the 'Linnsea/ for 1851. It is stated to be a native of 

 Columbia, and its nearest affinity is perhaps with our M. angu- 

 lata, Bot. Mag. t. 3979, and, though less so, with our M.Jluri- 

 bunda, Ic. Plant. Rar. v. 2. t. 109. Our specimen was accom- 

 panied by the following note from Mr. Bateman : — " I received 



july 1st, 1864. 



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