Tas. 4230. 
AXGIPHILA GRANDIFLORA. 
Large yellow-flowered Hyiphila. 
Nat. Ord. VeRBENACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus vy. turbinatus, quadridentatus. Corolla 
hypogyna, infundibuliformis v. hypocrateriformis, tubo calyce multo longiore, 
limbo quadripartito sequali. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, exserta, equalia. 
Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis uniovulatis. Stylus terminalis, bifidus. Bacea quadri- 
locularis v. abortu bilocularis. Semina in loculo solitaria—Arbores v. frutices 
Americe tropice ; foliis oppositis simplicibus, corymbis axillaribus et terminalibus 
dichotomis, paniculatis ; corollis flavis albis. Endl. 
AlerPHtLa grandiflora; glabra, ramis teretibus, foliis verticillatis oblongo-subob- 
- ovatis brevissime petiolatis integerrimis basi obtusis subcordatis apice 
acutis, corymbo trichotome diviso pedunculato terminali basi bibracteato, 
calycis tubo brevi 5-dentato, 5-angulato, corolla (magna) longe tubulosa 
pubescente (flava), limbo 5-lobo, lobis patentibus acutis, staminibus exsertis, 
bacca obovato-rotundata compressa cyanea. 
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Of the native country of this very pretty shrub I regret to say 
we are ignorant. We are indebted for flowermg specimens, 1m 
December, 1845, to Mr. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place, Ken- 
sington, who received plants from Mr. Makoy, of Liege, under 
the erroneous name of “ yellow Rondeletia”; and about the same 
time also, from Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, of the Exeter Nur- 
sery. It is quite clear that this is no Rondeletia, nor any Rubi- 
aceous plant, but a true yiphila, with singularly large y ellow 
tubular flowers, well worthy a place in every collection, flowering 
as it does in the middle of winter in a warm stove, and then the 
flowers are succeeded by the glaucous-blue berries. 
Descr. Our Plants are shrubdy, one and a half to two feet 
high, every where glabrous (except the corolla). Branches terete, 
pale brown, woody. Leaves in rather distant whorls, four or 
five in a whorl, oblong, or rather approaching to obovate, entire, 
slightly waved, penninerved, very shortly petiolate, obtuse and 
even subcordate at the base, acute at the point. Peduncle 
terminal, 2-3 inches long, with a pair of dracteas immediately 
beneath the trichotomously divided, rather compact, many- 
flowered corymb. Calye short, cup-shaped, pentagonal, with at 
May Ist, 1846. 
