Tas. 5118, 
COLUMNEA scanpDeEns. 
Climbing Columnea. 
Nat.-Ord. GesneRiAcE£®.—DIpDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyz liber, 5-partitus. Corolla tubulosa, rectiuscula, basi postice 
gibba, ringens, /odis superiore erecto fornicato, inferiore trifido patente. Stamina 
4, didynama, antheris connexis, quinti postici rudimentum. Glandule 1—5 circa 
basin ovarii. Bacca 1-locularis, placentibus 2-parietalibus bilobis. Semina ob- 
longa.—Frutices Americani, flexiles, erecti. aut scandentes. Folia opposita, brevi- 
petiolata, crassiuscula, subserrata, hirsuta vel pubescentia. Pedunculi axillares, 80- 
litarii aut conferti, Corolla coccinea. De Cand. 
ColumNEA scandens; hic illic radiculosa herbaceo-suffruticosa, ramis obtuse 
tetragonis pedunculisque tomentosis, foliis brevi-petiolatis ovatis ovato-ob- 
longisve integerrimis vel calloso-serratis pubescentibus, pedunculis axillari- 
bus unifloris petiolo longioribus, calycis pubescentis profunde 5-partiti la- 
ciniis lineari-subulatis basi dente uno alterove instructa, corolle coccinea 
villosee profunde bilabiatz, labio superiore maximo trifido, lobo intermedio 
amplo fornicato, inferiore parvo integro reflexo, glandula hypogyna magna 
solitaria, 
CoLumNza scandens. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 891. Sw. Obs. Bot. p. 249. Jacy. Hort. 
Vind. v. 3. p. 27. t. 48. Bot tags t. 805 (viz Bot. Mag. t. 1614). Mart. 
Nov. Gen. Pl. Bras, p. 65. t. 226. f. 2. 
_ CoLumyza rotundifolia. Sadish. Paradis. Lond. t. 29. 
CoLUMNEA speciosa. Presi, Bot. Bemerk. p. 145. 
CoLumyza scandens, pheeniceo flore, fructu albo, Plum. Gen. p. 28; Ie. p. 89. 
Ft. 
A handsome plant, frequent in the West India Islands, liable 
to some slight variations in the leaves, and in the depth or pale- 
ness of colour of the flowers, but not sufficient to justify the 
Separation of C. rotundifolia, as was done by Salisbury, or the 
C. speciosa by Presl, as distinct species. The C. scandens of Sims 
in Bot. Mag., if intended for this plant, is a miserable representa- 
Hon, and widely different in habit and in the colour of the flowers, 
and in the form of the corolla and- calyx. Our plant succeeds 
a cultivated in a basket suspended from the roof of a moist 
stove. 
JUNE Ist, 1859. 
