Tab. 5623. 

 TAFEINOTES CabolOta 



Empress Charlottes Tapeinotes. 



Nat. Ord. GeSNERTACE-E.— DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA. 



Gen. Char. Calyx libera inequalta, 5-partitus. Corolla itifundibulirormi- 

 subnngens, ban postice gibba, tubo antice interdum grosse ventricoso, 

 fence contracto, limhi erecti, labio superiore 2- inferiore 3-lobo. Stamina 

 4, didynaina, et quinti rudimentum ; antherce cohacrentes. DwciM in glan- 

 dulam poaticam tumens. Capsula ovata, coriacea, 1-locularis, 2-Taifia 

 placentis 2 ! parietalibua 2-lamellatis. Smimmqo, oblonga.— Herba? Braai- 

 heiises, subcarnosat, cattle ba*i tnberoso. Folia opposita v. subopposita pe- 

 tiolata, subdentata. Pedicelli l-1-axillares, 1-2-jtori. 



Tapeinotes Carolina; suffruticosa, foliis confertia oblon s is oblongo- 

 laneeolatisve acuminatis basi acutis crenato-serratis supra nitidis Tu- 

 ride yirescentibus subtus hirtis rubro-purpureis, pedicellis angulatia 

 1-noris infra calycem 5-alatis, sepalis t'oliaceis deltoideo-cordatis acutia 

 margjuibaa recurvis undulatis, corolla alba calyce duplo longiore, tubo 

 inflato hiraoto, lobis parvis suborbiculatis glabris, ovario birsuto. 



Tapeinotes Carolina?. Wawra, CEstr. Bot. Zeitschrift, 1862, p. 273, cum 

 to. ; Bot. Ergebn. Reise Maximil. p. 72. t. 9. 



A beautiful stove plant, introduced into this country by 

 Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, from whose plant the accompanying 

 drawing was made, in November, 1866. It was discovered 

 during the Brazilian travels of his present Majesty the Em- 

 peror of Mexico (Maximilian I.) in 1859-60, and was intro- 

 duced into the Imperial Garden of Schonbrunn (Vienna) and 

 published by Dr. Henrich Wawra, who accompanied the ex- 

 pedition as surgeon and naturalist. It bears the name of the 

 Empress of Mexico (Charlotte). 



The other species of Tapeinotes, of which there are several, 

 are all natives of Brazil and well worthy of cultivation, as 

 indeed are most of the plants of the beautiful Order to 

 which it belongs. 



Descr. A small undershrub. Stem and branches terete, 

 red-brown, rather succulent. Leaves crowded towards the 



FEBRUARY 1ST, 1867. 



