Tas. 4238. : a 
CALLIANDRA Harrisii. 
Mr. Harris’ Calliandra. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminos£.—MonabgELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores plerique hermaphroditi. Calyx campanulatus 2-dentatus v. 
rarius 5-fidus, seepius striatus. Corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata, rarius 
subtubulosa, laciniis striatis v. tenuiter membranaceis. Stamina indefinita sepius 
numerosa corolla pluries longiora, basi in tubum coalita et corolle sepius plus 
minus adnata. Legumen lineare, rectum v. vix falcatum, compressum, in val- 
vulas 2 lignosas coriaceas v. submembranaceas marginibus valde incrassatis ab 
apice ad basin elastice dehiscens, intus uniloculare epulposum. Seminum funiculus 
sepius brevis.—Frutices v. arbores parve, America calidioris incole, sepius 
inermes. Folia bipinnata, petiolo rachique fere in omnibus eglandulosis. Stipule 
in ramulis floriferis v.ad basin pedunculorum sepe persistentes, subimbricate, folia- 
cee, membranacee v. indurate, in ramulis vegetioribus nonnunquam decidue, rarius 
postice in spinam ut primum reflexam mox patentem v. surrectam producte. Capi- 
tula florum globosa, pedunculata v. rarius sessilia, in axillis foliorum superiorum v. 
in racemo terminali solitaria gemina v. rarius plura, staminibus (ultrapollicaribus) 
purpureis v. albis, comosa speciosa. Flores centrales sepius quam in Abizzia 
difformes, corolla elongato-tubulosa, staminum tubo longe exserto. Benth. 
Catti1anpra (§ Macrophylle) Harrisii; ramulis puberulis, stipulis parvis fal- 
catis, pinnis unijugis, foliolis sesquijugis oblique obovato-falcatis utrinque 
puberulis uninerviis reticulato-venosis, pedunculis axillaribus fasciculatis 
villosis, calycis dentibus glanduloso-puberulis, corolla infundibuliformi calyce 
triplo longiore. Benth. 
CALLIANDRA Harrisii. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot. v. 3. p. 95. 
Inca Harrisii. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 41. 
A very handsome stove plant, of straggling habit, but if sup- 
ported by sticks, easily kept in good form, and highly ornamental, 
with its copious, rather large leaves, and its very handsome 
crested tufts of flowers, consisting, indeed, almost wholly of 
stamens, but those stamens so long, so numerous, and of so 
bright a red, as to be highly ornamental. ‘The species is a 
native of Mexico; it is of easy cultivation, and easily increased 
by cuttings. It was introduced to our gardens by Thos. Harris, 
Esq., of Kingsbury, whose name it bears. As a genus, Calh- 
andra (from xéddos, beauty, and avip,Spss, the stamen, in allusion to 
one of its most striking characters, the beauty of the stamens) 
JUNE lst, 1846, 
