Tab. 5G26. 



CL AVI J A ¥V LG E N S. 



Brill ian t-Jlo wend Cla rija. 



Nat. Ord. Myrsixk.e. — Pkktanbeia Monocynia. 



(let). Char. Cah/.v profunda 5-fidus, laciniis obtusis imbricatis. Corolla 

 tubus brevis; /o'w" 5, fauce in appendicea 5 camosaa cum lobis alternantea 

 tuniente. Stamina 5, filamentis brevissimis liberis v. connatin ; anther* 

 extrorsum debiacentea, aepe in capitulum conniventea. Ovarium 1-localare; 

 stflut breviaaimua, stigraate breri 2-lobo ; ovula paaea placenta; parvte baai- 

 lari inserta. Bacca globosa, oligoaperma. Semina placenta) globom affixa, 

 umbilico ventrali, testa mucilaginoaa, albumins corneo; embryo excentri- 

 cus, cotyledonibua ovatia plains, radiculainfera. — Fruticea America) tropica) i 

 caule rimplici, apice folioso. Folia altema, coriacea. Racemi axiliares. 

 Flores inter minore*, abortu unisexuales, albi jlavi v. aurantiad. 



Clavija fulgent; foliia breriter peliolatis, elongato-obovato-lanoeolatia 

 obtusis v. subacutis supra medium remote denratis, costa valida, nervis 

 inconspicuia, racernia erectis robnatia multi-densifloris, floribus majua- 

 culis erecto-patentibus rubro-aurantiacis, pedicellia brevibus craaaia, 

 calycis lobis ciliolatis, corolla? lobis orbiculatis, giandulis subrotundis, 

 tilameutis liberie, antheris aubquadratia flavis, couuectivo crass^. 



The beautiful plant here figured, and which flowered in 

 the Royal Gardens in September of last year, is stated to 

 have been received about eighteen years ago, but I can find 

 no record of either its native country or donor, except that 

 it may possibly have been raised from seeds sent from Lima, 

 in Peru, by the late Mr. M'Lean, an old correspondent of the 

 Gardens. Its congeners, of which a dozen or so are well 

 described, are all South American, extending from Brazil to 

 Panama, and down the Andes on the west coast to Peru, but 

 amongst them all I find none, either in our herbarium or 

 books, that equals this for the size and colour of its flowers. 

 As a stove plant it is easily managed, flowers freely, and 

 having the habit of the genus in foliage, etc.. it forms a very 

 strikingly ornamental plant. 



Desck. Trunk erect, in our plant about four feet high, very 



TKBRUARr 1st. 18(37. 



