Tas. 6151. 
GUSTAVIA Graciuma. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Myrracem—Tribe LECYTHIDER. 
Genus Gustavia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 721). 
Gustavia gracillima ; glaberrima, foliis elongato-lineari-lanceolatis (juniori- 
bus brevioribus et latioribus) acuminatis in petiolum pollicarem angus- 
tatis serratis marginibus undulatis creberrime nervosis, floribus 4-poll. 
diam. axillaribus solitariis v. binis roseis, pedicellis 1-13 pollicaribus 
medio 2-bracteolatis glabris, calyce brevissimo 4-lobo, lobis latioribus 
quam longis obtusis, petalis ad 8 obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis 
glaberrimis, filamentis purpureis, ovario pubescente ecostato. 
G. gracillima, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxx. p. 181. 
The genus Gustavia contains, according to Mr. Miers’ new 
revision of it in the Linnean Transactions, upwards of twenty 
species, natives of various tropical parts of the South American 
Continent. Of these the only one hitherto figured from living 
specimens in Europe is the beautiful G. casignis (Tab. nost. 
5069), which flowered in Kew in 1858, and yet all the other 
species are as beautiful, and some, like that now figured, 
far more highly coloured than that superb plant. The pre- 
sent is a young plant which differs from the full grown state 
of the same in the shorter and broader leaves, which have 
since the drawing was made, attained on the plant a length 
of thirteen by one and one-half inches, and in indigenous 
specimens they are fifteen to eighteen inches by three-quarters 
to one inch. It isa native of New Grenada, where it was 
discovered by Purdie in the woods of Carmin, in 1545, form- 
ing a singular small tree flowering on its slender, lofty trunk, 
in July. 
le ccna here figured was sent by Mr. Bull from his 
establishment at Chelsea, where it flowered in September of 
last year; it was collected by Roezl in New Grenada. 
Descr. A tree with a slender trunk, quite glabrous every- 
MARCH Ist, 1875. 
