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Tan. 4912. 
PLEROMA Kunruranum. 
Professor Kunth’s Pleroma. 
Nat, Ord. MrLastomacem®.—Drcanpria Monoaynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4362.) 
PLERoMA Kunthianum ; ramulis tetragonis petiolisque adpresse villosis, foliis 
petiolatis ovato-ellipticis acutis 5-nerviis integerrimis supra setuloso-seabris 
subtus villosis sericeis adpressis pallidioribus, pedicellis hispidis axillaribus 
et terminalibus, calycis tubo campanulato rigide setoso bracteato, lobis 
ovatis magnis, bracteis amplis imbricatis coloratis deciduis. : 
Lasianpra Kunthiana. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 128. 
PLeRoMA Kunthianum. Past. Mag. Bot. v.11. p. 125 cum Ie. 
It is saying much to remark that this is equal in beauty to 
the P. elegans of Mr. Gardner, figured in this work at Tan. 4362. 
The flowers are as large, but of a very different colour: the 
stem and branches are acutely four-angled, not terete, as in that 
species, and the young branches and even leaves, and especially 
the bracteas, are tinged with bright red, which adds to the rich 
colouring of the plant. It was raised at the Botanic Garden of 
Glasgow, from seeds which had been received from Mr. Gardner 
while on his journey in Brazil, and the Royal Gardens of Kew 
owe the possession of it to Mr. Murray. It flowers in July and 
requires the heat of the stove. : 
Duscr. An erect, handsome-growing shrw4, copiously branched: . 
“the branches tetragonal, ‘rough to the touch, with copious ap- 
pressed hairs. Zeaves of a peculiarly rich velvety green, oppo- 
site, petiolate, petioles often deep red, between ovate and ellip- 
tical, acute, the older ones obtuse, five-nerved, with numerous 
transverse nervelets, above velvety to the eye, but rough with 
copious short hairs, beneath paler and clothed with silky hairs. 
Peduncles solitary, generally terminating a short branch, single- 
flowered. Flower very large. Calyx-tube ovate or turbinate, — 
setose, concealed by very large, coloured, imbricated, deciduous _ 
bracteas ; limb of five large, green, ovate, acute aes Petals 
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DECEMBER Ist, 1848. 
