Tab. 4199. 

 REEVESIA THYRSOIDEA. 



Tliyrse-jlowered Meevesia. 



Nat. Ord. Sterculiace^, Helictebe^. — Monadelphia poeyandria. 



Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, 5-dentatus, sestivatione imbricata, pube stel- 

 lata tomentosus, bracteolatus. Petala 5, lvypogyna, unguiculata, sestivatione con- 

 voluta, callo inter unguem et laminam. Stamina in toro longo filiformi insidcntia. 

 Antlierce 15, sessiles, in cyatho capitaliformi apice tantum pervio obsolete 5-den- 

 tato connatae, extrorsse, biloculares, locidis divaricatis, intricatis, longitudinaliter 

 dehiscentibus. Pollen sphsericum, glabrum. Ovarium sessile, intra cyathum an- 

 theriferum, ovatum, glabrum, 5-angulare, 5-loculare, locubs dispermis. (hula 

 margini loculorum unum super alteram affixa, superiore basi concavo in iuferiorem 

 incumbente. Stigma 5-lobum, simplicissimum, sessile. Capmla stipitata, lig- 

 nosa, obovata, 5-angularis, 5-locularis, loculicide 5-valvis, axi nullo. Samoa 

 cuique loculo duo basi alata. — Arbor (China) foliis alternis exsiipulatis, racemis 

 terminalibm compositis, floribus albis. Lindl. 



Reevesia thyrsoidea. Lindl. inBrande's Journ. vol.ii. p. 112. Bot.Eeg. 1. 1236. 



The interesting plant here represented, drawn from the stove 

 of the Royal Gardens of Kew in July 1845, is a native of China, 

 and was first made known to botanists through John Reeves, Esq. 

 a gentleman long resident in Canton, distinguished for the many 

 services he rendered to Natural History, and Botany in particular, 

 and in honour of whom this plant is named by Dr. Lindley. Its 

 affinity with Helicteres is very striking. Endlicher forms of it, 

 with Ungeria, a little group, which he calls Beeveeiea, chiefly 

 distinguished from Helicteres by the anthers being sessile. It 

 loves a warm green-house, and seems to flower at different seasons 

 of the year. 



Descr. With us this plant is only a Shrub, three to four feet 

 high; but, in its native country, it is said to constitute a tree. 

 Branches rounded, glabrous. Leaves alternate, broadly lanceolate, 

 subcoriaceous, acuminate, petiolate, entire, penninerved ; petiole 

 slender, dilated upwards. Corymb* terminating the branches. 

 Peduncles and pedicels clothed with stellate pubescence. Calyx 

 also stellately pubescent, campanulate, suddenly contracted a little 

 above the base, the mouth cut into four or live unequal segments. 



DECEMBER 1ST, 1845 



