Tab. 5653. 

 mjdgea mackophylla. 



Large-leaved Rudgea. 



Nat. Ord. Rubiace^:. — Pentakdbia Monogtnia. 



• Gen. CJiar. Calycis tubus subglobosus; lobi 5, acuti. Corolla subinfun- 

 clibuliformis ; tubus gracilis, fauce nuda ; lobi 5, erecto-patentes v. reflexi, 

 subconcavi, apice 3-quetro iucurvo v. deflexo. Stamina 5, corolla? fauce in- 

 serts, inclusa, filamentis brevibus v. elougatis ; antherae oblon^a 1 , erectae. 

 Ovarium 2-loculare; stylus simplex, stigmate 2-cruri; ovula in loculis soli- 

 taria. Bacca 2-locularis, 2-spertna. — Arbores et frutices America? tropica?, 

 glabri v. cinereo-pubescentes. Polia breviter v. longe petiolata. Stipulae 

 magna, libera v. connate, scepe fimbriates v. setosa. Plores in paniculas v. 

 capitula terminates v. pseudo-terminales dispositi, albi. 



Rudgea. macrophylla ; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis robustis, foliis 1-2- 

 pedalibus brevissime petiolatia elongato-obovato-oblongis v. lanceo- 

 latis subacutis inferne angustatis basi acutis obtusis v. cordato-2-lobis, 

 floribus maguis in capitulum magnum densiflorum globosum crasse pe- 

 dunculatum dispositis, stipulis in tubum connatia dorso intra margines 



setosis 



Rudgea macrophylla. Benth. in Linn. v. 23. p. 456. Walp. Ann. v. 2. p. 



7.1 7 



747. 



A magnificent plant, and belonging to a genus which, 

 though containing many species, had never previously, so far 

 as I am aware, been introduced into European gardens. All 

 of the species are South American, and the present, which 

 flowered in Mr. Henderson's Nursery, of Pine-apple Place, 

 in March of the present year, is a native of the neighbour- 

 hood of Rio de Janeiro, where it has been found by various 

 collectors, and is described (by Gardner) as a shrub six feet 

 high. 



Desck. A glabrous, shining, deep-green shrub, about six 

 feet high. Branches terete, very stout. Leaves very large, 

 one to two feet and upwards long, very shortly petioled, 

 narrow obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 spreading and recurved, narrowed to the base, which is 

 acute obtuse or auriculate-two-lobed, very coriaceous, shin- 

 ing, with a stout broad midrib and numerous veins. Stipules 

 july 1st, 1867. 



