Tas. 6143. 
BLUMEN BACHIA cuHvugQuiTENsIs. . 
Native of Peru, 
Nat, Ord. Loasez. 
Genus Biumensacuta, Schrad.; (Benth. 5° Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vo'. i. p. 805). 
BLUMENBACHIA chuquitensis; setis urentibus elongatis laxe conspersa, caule 
erecto v. subvolubile robusto folioso ramoso, foliis longe petiolatis 
oblongis v. oblongo-lanccolatis pinnatitidis basi pinnatis, foliolis segmen- 
tisve ovatis pinnatifido-lobatis subtus dense pubescentibus, pedunculis 
erectis foliis brevioribus 1-floris, floribus 14-8 poll. diam. 5—10-meris, 
sepalis crenato-lobulatis, capsula globoso-turbinata. 
Loasa chuquitensis, Meyen, reise um den Erde, vol. i. p. 483 in note. Walp. 
in Nov. Act. Acad., vol, xix. Suppl. 1, p. 339; Rep. vol. v. p. 780. 
A handsome Peruvian herbaceous plant, allied to the Chilian 
B. coronata (Caiophora coronata, Hook. & Arn.; see Haage 
& Schmidt in Revue Hortic. 1874, p. 58), but differing 
wholly in habit, this having a stout erect, or suberect and 
leafy stem, with the petioles and axillary peduncles shorter 
than the leaf-blade, and B. coronata being a tufted plant, 
with a short procumbent stem, very slender petioles much 
longer than the blade, and long scape-like peduncles rising 
from the ground. These two species are indeed so closely 
allied, that I was at first disposed to regard B. chuguitensis as 
an overgrown, erect, robust-branched specimen of the Chilian 
plant, with hypertrophied flowers; but besides the differences 
alluded to, this has much more entire sepals, and comes from 
much further north in the Andes. It was imported from 
Peru by Messrs. Veitch in 1863, through their collector, 
Mr. Pearce, and there are indigenous specimens 1n the Kew 
Herbarium, collected by Lechler in Peru, at San Antonio— 
a place I do not find in the maps. The capsule is slightly 
twisted when quite ripe, thus showing a passage from Blu- 
menbachia to Caiophora, genera that are united in the 
_ daNuARY Ist, 1875. 
