Tab. 4189. 

 FRANCISCEA acuminata. 



Acuminated Franciscea. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophularine^e. — Did yx ami a Angiospermia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx persistans, inflatus, campanulatus, quinquedentatus : den- 

 tibus sequalibus. Corolla hypocrateriformis ; limbus quinquepartitus subsequalis ; 

 lobis rotundatis repandis, margine incumbentibus ; tubus apice inflatus, incurva- 

 tus. Stylus apice incrassatus. Stigma bilobum. Capsula ovata, bilocularis, 

 bivalvis, valvulis impartibilibus. Pohl. 



Franciscea acuminata; ramis erecto-patentibus, fobis oblongis acuminatis ad 

 basin parum attenuatis glabris (ciliatis), bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis caly- 

 cibusque glaberrimis, floribus paucis subracemosis terminabbus. Fold. 



Franciscea acuminata. Pohl, Plant. Brazil, v. 1. p. 4. t. 3. 



Franciscea Pobliana, Hort. 



A handsome Brazilian shrub, native of Brazil, presented by 

 Mr. Lowe of Clapton to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it 

 flowers in the stove during the months of June and July. It was 

 received under the name of F. PoUiana, probably a mere garden 

 name, which ought not to be retained, for it is assuredly the F. 

 acuminata of Pohl, in the splendid work above quoted. It is a 

 very desirable hot-house plant, wanting indeed the delicious scent 

 of F. Hopeana and the handsome foliage of F. hydrangeaformis, 

 but nearly equal to the latter and superior to the former in the 

 flowers. Cuttings will strike under a bell-glass in sand, if placed 

 on a tank-pit. Sixteen species of this genus are now described 

 in books ; but some of them are doubtful, or with difficulty to be 

 distinguished from others. The genus is also thought not to be 

 sufficiently distinct from Brunsfelsia, and Mr. Bcntham has united 

 the two in the descriptions of Scrophularinea for the forthcoming 

 volume of De Candolle's Prodromus. 



Descii. A shrub, in our stove about two feet high, much 

 branched, everywhere glabrous. Leaves alternate, on short peti- 

 oles, subcoriaceous, oblong, acuminate, tapering gradually at the 

 base, quite entire, obscurely nerved and ciliated at the margin. 

 Flowers terminal, but generally on short branches, which are 



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