Tas. 4345. 
SOLANDRA avis. 
Smooth-leaved Solandra. 
Nat. Ord. SOLANEZ®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 3-5-fidus, persistens. Corolla hypogyna infun- 
dibuliformi-ventricosa, limbo plicato quinquefido, lobis undulatis. Stamina 5, 
corolla tubo inserta, adscendentia, erecta; anthere \ongitudinaliter dehiscentes, 
versatiles. Ovariwm incomplete 4-loculare, dissepimento altero supra medium 
deliquescente, altero completo, prope angulum parietalem utrinque placentifero, 
placentis porrectis multi-ovulatis. Stylus simplex ; stigma subcapitatum. Bacca 
ealyee demum hinc fisso cincta, 4-locularis, pulposa. Semina plurima, reniformia. 
Fimbryo intra albumen carnosum arcuatus.—Frutices Americe tropice, sarmen- 
tost ; foliis in apice ramulorum confertim alternis, obovato-oblongis, integerrimis, 
subcarnosis ; floribus terminalibus, solitariis, maximis. Endl. 
et En ee 
SoLanpRa levis ; foliis obovato-ellipticis glaberrimis levibus, calycis bilabiati 
tubo 5-angulato-alato labiis subzequalibus acutis, corolle albe tubo calycem 
duplo excedente 5-costato sursum ampliato ventricoso, ore contracto, limbi 
patentis reticulatim venosi lobis margine undulato-crispatis. 
SoLanpRa levis. Hortul. 
a 
E Of the four species of Solandra described by authors, not one 
. accords with the present; nor is any now in cultivation to be 
compared with it, for the size and beauty and fragrance of the 
blossoms. It was received from Messrs. Lucombe, Pince and Co., 
in November, 1847, under the name here adopted, by which it 
was obtained by those gentlemen from the Continent, without 
| any indication of its introduction into Europe, or of the country 
of which it is a native: a practice unfortunately general, and 
which cannot be too strongly condemned. Messrs. Lucombe and — 
. Pince find its cultivation extremely easy in a moderately warm 
House, requiring nothing but the ordinary treatment of stove 
plants. Its somewhat climbing stems grow best, trailed round = 
a cylindrical trellice. Young plants, not two feet high, produce 
these noble blossoms. The leaves are thick and glossy, and form 
an agreeable contrast with the coarse foliage of other Solandre. 
Descr. A shrub of dwarfish habit, two feet long, bran Se 
with long’ and trailing branches ; branches glabrous, as is « 
JANUARY Ist, 1848. . 
