Tas. 4386. 
CANTUA -pyriFoLia. 
Pear-leaved Cantua. 
Nat. Ord. PoLEMonNIACcE®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen, Char. Calyx urceolato- vel tubuloso-campanulatus 5-dentatus v. 8-5- 
fidus. Cor, tubulosa, limbi subpatentis laciniis subaequalibus obovatis. Stamina 
prope basin tubi inserta, e tubo exserta. Discus brevis, carnosus. Ovarii loculi 
multiovulati. Capsula coriacea, trivalvis. Semina biseriatim adscendentia, imbri- 
cata, compressa, in alam expansa.—Frutices v, arbores Peruviane. Folia alterna, 
crassiuscula, integerrima v. sinuato-dentata. Flores speciosi ad apices ramorum 
thyrsoideo-corymbosi, rarius in axillis superioribus subsolitarii. DC. 
Cantua pyrifolia; foliis ellipticis obovatisve petiolatis acutis pubescenti-pilosis 
(nunc glabris) integerrimis v. grosse sinuato-dentatis dentibus acutis 
corymbis ramosis, floribus erectis incurvis, calyce bilabiato, labiis 2-3-den- 
tatis, staminibus corollam duplo superantibus. : 
Canrva pyrifolia. Juss. Ann. Mus. v. 3. p.117. t. 7. Lam. Illustr. t.106. f. 1. 
De Cand. Prodr. v.9. p. 320. 
Cantua Loxensis. Willd. in Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 369. 
Canrva flexuosa. Pers. Syn. v. 1. p. 187. 
PERIPHRAGMOs flexuosus. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. v. 2. p. 17. t.1381. 
Of all the Polemoniacee, and many of them it must 
be acknowledged are very handsome, some species of the 
present genus, Cantua, are pre-eminently beautiful. We have 
now the pleasure of announcing a species reared in this country, — 
for the first time, by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, at their Nursery, 
Exeter, from seeds sent by their collector, Mr. William Lobb, 
from Peru. This is, however, by no means the most showy 
of the Cantuas. C. quercifolia has pure white flowers, nestled 
among leaves, as large as those of our oaks; and the C. buaifolia 
has deep rose-coloured blossoms, full four inches long. C. pyr?- 
Jolia is, however, liable to vary : some of the specimens gathered 
by Mathews, as observed by De Candolle, have narrower flowers ; 
and the native specimens have more generally entire leaves, and 
Somewhat more like those of a pear, than the specimen here 
figured. It flowered in March, 1848. 
JULY Ist, 1848. 
