Tab 4330. 
COLUMNEA CRAssiFOLiA. 
Thick-leaved Colmmea. 
Nat. Ord. Gesneriace.®.—Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx liber 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa, rectiuscula, basi postice 
gibba, ringens, lobis superiore erecto fornicato iuferiore trifido patente. Stamina 
4 didynama, antheris conuexis, qainti postici rudimentum. Olandidte 1-5 circa 
basin ovarii. JBacca 1-locularis, placentis 2 parietalibus bilobis. Semina ob- 
longa.—Frutices Americani Jlexiles erecti aut scandentes. Foba opposita irevi- 
petiolata crassin^cula subserrata, hirsuta v. pubescentia. Peduncub axillares 
solitarii aut canferti. Corollae cocdneee. DC. 
CoLCMNEA crassifolia ; caide sutfruticoso-carnoso squamuloso-punctato radicante, 
fobis brevi-petiolatis erectis bneari-lanceolatis acuminatis caraosis subin- 
tegerrimis supra atro-viridibus glabris nitidis subtus flavo-rufescentibus 
pbosiusculis, tloribus sobtariis axiUaribus, calycis glabri lobis lanceolatis 
acuminatis erectis subintegemmis. corolbs niagnis coccineis hirsutissimis. 
CoLGMNEA crassifoba. Hortnlan. 
This is the largest-flowered and most beautiful of this beautiful 
genus, of which I regret that I know nothing more concerning its 
history than that it was sent to us by Mr. Makoy of Liege, under 
the name of Columnea crassifolia ; which appellation being unex¬ 
ceptionable, I gladly adopt. It is probably a native of Mexico, 
and extremely diflerent from any species hitherto described. 
It requires the heat of the stove, and is readily increased by 
cuttings, which are exceedingly tenacious of life; a specimen, 
under pressure for the Herbarium, continuing to push a green 
shoot at the extremity two months after being gathered. 
Descr. Our plants are scarcely a foot high and the stems ^e 
simple, disposed to spread and to throw out fibrous roots at the 
joints, terete, fleshy, sufiruticose, scurfy with brown scales which 
give them a spotted appearance. Leaves four or five inches 
long, shortly petiolate, erect, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, fleshy, 
nearly entire, dark glossy green and quite glabrous above, 
beneath paler yellowish-red and very slightly hairy. Peduncles 
axillary, short, thick, single-flowered; flowers erect, very lar^. 
Golyx^ nearly an inch long, brownish-green, cut almost to the 
OCTOBER 1st, 1847. 
