Tab. 4169 



LEIANTHUS longif6lius. 



Long~leaved Leianthus. 



Nat. Ord. Gentiane^e. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Char. Gen. LEIANTHUS. Griseb.— Calyx 5-fidus, 5-carinatus v. 

 5-alatus, lobis yalvaribus planiusculis acuminatis, carinis alisve dorsalibus. 

 Corolla infundibuliformis, nuda, tubi fundo tenui supra germen in faucem 

 longiorem cum limbo 5-partito confluentem aequalem ampliato. Stamina 5, 

 supra fundum coroltae inserta, filamentis elongatis inaequalibus. Antherte 

 incumbentes, immutatae neque apiculatae. Ovarium annulo basibus desti- 

 tutum, valvulis introflexis semibiloculare, ovulis ipsarum margini insertis. 

 Stylus distinctus, persistens, stigmate indiviso capitulate Capsula bival- 

 vis, septicida, semibilocularis, placentis margini valvarum insertis. Semina 

 placentis! immersa. — Herbse vel frutices Jamaica et America centralis, 

 cymis terminalibus, fioribus albidis vel Jlavis, rarius cyaneis, gracilibus. 

 Be Cand. 



Leianthus longifolius; caule suffruticoso teretiusculo, foliis petiolatis ob- 

 longo-lanceolatis acuminatis, cymis 3 — 5-floris, alis calycinis lanceo- 

 lato-linearibus, corollse (luteae) tubo gracili sensim ampliato, lobis 

 oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis genitalia aequantibus. Griseb. 



Leianthus longifolius. Griseb. Gent. p. 196. De Cand. Prodr. 9. p. 82. 



Lisianthus longifolius. Linn. Mant. p. 43. Lam. III. t. 107. /. 1. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. 1. p. 826. Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 860. Spreng. Syst. 

 Veget. v. I. p. 586. 



Taschia longifolia. Mart, in Bon's Gard. Bict. 4. 197. 



Lisianthus erectus, foliis lanceolatus, floribus singularibus terminalibus. 



Brown, Jam. p. 157. t. 9./. 1. 

 Rapunculus fruticosus linifolius, &c. Sloane, Jam. I. p. 15. t. 101. f. 1. 



A rare plant in our gardens. It was introduced, however, 

 to Kew, as early as 1793, by Capt. Bligh, of H. M. S. Provi- 

 dence, and then lost to our collections till 1825, when it was 

 published in the Botanical Register from plants in the 

 Nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith. 

 Again, it seems to have been wanting to our stoves till the 

 summer of 1844, when it flowered in that of His Grace the 

 Duke of Northumberland at Syon, and that of Kew, to both 

 which places the seeds were sent by their Botanical Collector, 

 Mr. Purdie. 



