Tas. 4262. 
PLEROMA ELEGANs. 
Hlegant Pleroma. 
Nat. Ord. MeLastomace2.—Dercanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovatus, junior bracteis 2 deciduis involutus, lobi 5 
decidui. Petala 5 obcordata. Stamina 10. Filamenta pilosa v. glabra. An- 
there elongate basi arcuate, connectivo stipitiformi basi breve biauriculato. 
Ovarium calyci adnatum, apice setosum. Capsula baccata subsicca 4-locularis. 
Semina cochleata.—Frutices Australi-Americani, sepissime setis appressis scabri. 
Folia subrigida, 5-nervia. Flores ampli, purpuret, in racemum paniculamve dis- 
positi. 
PLEROMA elegans; ramulis teretiusculis adpresse setoso-hispidis, foliis petiolatis 
ovato-oblongis utrinque acutis supra glaberrimis rugosis subtus adpressa 
pilosis 3-nerviis ciliatis, floribus subternis terminalibus, pedicellis brevibus 
hispidis, bracteis lanceolatis ciliatis, calycis setosi lobis angustis petalis 
glabris, filamentis subpilosis. Gardn. 
Pieroma elegans. Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 2. p. 350. 
A plant of great beauty, with copious, glossy, strongly nerved 
“Sha and dia of a he size and peculiarly splendid colour, 
to the rich velvety purple of whose hue no pencil can do justice. 
It is a native of the Organ Mountains, growing at an eleva- 
tion of 4,500 feet, where it was first detected by Mr. Gardner 
(n. 405 of his collection), and subsequently by Mr. W.Lobb, who 
sent it to Mr. Veitch. In that gentleman’s Nursery at Exeter, 
it bore its splendid blossoms in June, 1846. _ 
Descr. A shrub four to six feet high, erect, branched ; the 
branches opposite, deeply tinged with red and rough with closely- 
pressed rigid scale-like bristles. Leaves opposite, on short petioles, 
ovate, or rather elliptical, acute, three-ribbed, glabrous and glossy 
and dark-green above, beneath more or less clothed with ap- 
pressed leaves, and very pale-coloured, the margins entire, ciliated, 
often tinged with red. Vowers terminal, solitary, or ternate ; 
bedicels short, generally bearing two small leaves, and, around the 
calyx, two or three large deciduous coloured bracts. Calye-tube 
globose, hispid ; segments five, spreading, lanceolate and hispid, 
Ciliated, deciduous. Stamens 10, four small, four larger. Fila 
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