Tas. 4209. 
FRANCISCEA HypRANGEAFORMIS. 
Hydrangea-like Pranciscea. 
Nat, Ord. ScROPHULARINES.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4189.) 
Franciscea hydrangeeformis ; caule subramoso, foliis (amplis) obovato-oblongis 
breviter acuminatis basi in petiolum brevem cuneato-attenuatis, bracteis 
(deciduis) lanceolatis pilosis ciliatis squamulisque aggregatis, calyce hirsuto, 
florum racemis (compositis) terminalibus hemisphericis amplis. Pod. 
Franciscea hydrangezformis. Pohl, Pl. Bras. v.1. p.7. t.7. Benth. in De 
Cand. Prodr. ined. 
8, calycibus latioribus bracteisque glabriusculis. 
FRANCISCEA capitata, Benth. 1. c. (Tas. NosTR. 4209.) 
Ever since the publication of the 1st fasciculus of Pohl’s splen- 
did work on Brazilian Plants, it has been an object with collectors 
and horticulturists to procure the F. Aydrangeaformis for culti- 
vation in our stoves. Pohl found it at Olaria, near Rio Parahy- 
buna, in 1818. Mr. Gardner was so fortunate as to meet with 
it, in the Organ Mountains, (n. 563 of his collections) in 1837; 
and he wrote from Rio, upon the label attached to our specimens, 
“this, from my recollection of the figure, I had considered to be 7. 
hydrangeeformis of Pohl; but by the kindness of Mr. Miers lam 
informed that Pohl’s description is ‘ bracteis lanceolatis pilosis 
ciliatis, calyce hirsuto’; while here the bracts and calyx are 
quite glabrous. It is a shrub, about four feet high, growing in 
_ Tather moist places in virgin forests, and attaining an elevation, 
upon the hills, of about 4500 feet. All the species are called 
Manacd (the Indian name) by the Brazilians, and this receives 
the name of Manacdé dobrado. Mt is a beautiful plant ; but does 
not ripen its seeds freely. I have only been able to procure a 
few, which I send.” These seeds have been reared in Glasgow 
and Kew, and from the produce of them our present figure was 
taken. In 1840 Mr. Gardner met again, in Minas Geraes, with 
Specimens (n. 5065 of his collections), which he considered the true 
plant of Pohl, in which opinion he is no doubt correct, the calyees_ 
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