Tan. 0110, 
HOWARDIA CarRaACcCASENSIS. 
Caracas Howardia. 
Nat. Ord. Ruprace®.—PENTANDRIA Monoeyrnia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubo turbinato cum ovario connato, limbo supero breviter 
5-dentato, dente uno in folium coloratum cordato-rotundatum petiolatumque 
expanso. Corolla supera, tubulosa, pubescens, limbo brevi 5-lobo, lobis zstiva- 
tione valvatis, tubo inferne crassiusculo (in flore sicco chartaceo) intusque glabro 
et nitido superne molliter membranaceo, pagina intima glabra vel pilosa. 
Stamina 6, ex annulo densissimo pilorum basim partis membranacez corolle 
vestientium orta, jilamentis glabris, antheris oblongis introrsis fere medio 
dorso affixis exsertis. Ovarium disco pulviniformi coronatum, biloculare. Ovula 
plurima, horizontalia, in placentis membranaceis ellipticis margine involutis — 
sepiusque bifidis dissepimento medio secundum lineam verticalem adnatis, ana- 
tropa. Stylus filiformis, corolle longitudine, glaber, stigmate bifido. Capsula 
rotundato- vel oblongo-turbinata, hinc et inde sulco plus minusve profundo no- 
tata, obsolete costulata, vertice truncato-areolata, areola (seu pulvine persistente) 
limbo calycis reliquio annulari integro aut dentato arcte circumeincta, ab apice 
ad basim loculicide dehiscens, placentis simul longitrorsum fissis, valvis dein 
septicide bifidis. Semina subcompressa, oblonga, angulosa, aptera.—Arbores — 
vel frutices Americe tropicalis, foliis oppositis, petiolatis, pubescentibus ; stipulis — 
interpetiolaribus, persistentibus, parum conspicuis, triangularibus, abrupte acumi- — 
natis ; floribus cymoso-paniculatis, pedunculis terminalibus. Wedd. 
Howarp1a Caracasensis ; foliis ovatis vel obovato-ellipticis longiuscule acumi- 
tis supra nisi in costa glabratis subtus 
natis, acumine acutissimo, basi cunea osta heb 
pubescentibus, dentibus calycis triangularibus acuminatis, lobo folie “i 
ovato (vel cordato-ovato), corolla tubulosa hirsuta, capsulis (exemplaribus 
Panamensibus) elliptieo-globosis pedicellisque verracosis. A 
Howarpra Caracasensis. Weddell, Ann. des Sc. Nat. ser. pare ge Pk 
Canycornyiium tubulosum. Seemann, Bot. of H.MS. Herald, p. 135 (vie 
De Cand., and excluding the locality of Peru, M‘Lean). 
Prncxyeya ionantha, Hort. Makoy. 
Pe Ne nara rEnenee 
This is indeed a very lovely stove-plant, with gracefully droop- 
ing panicles of flowers, whose beauty 1s very much increased by 
the remarkable enlargement of one of the minute teeth of the 
-coloured, folia- 
calyx into a heart-shaped, petiolated, deep rose 
APRIL lst, 1859. 
