Tas. 6404, 
ESCALLONIA FrortpunDa. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Saxrrracem.—Tribe EscaLLoniER. 
Genus Escatxonia, Linn. f.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 644). 
Escattonia floribunda ; glaberrima, ramulis folisique junioribus viscosis, ramis 
teretibus, foliis lineari- v. obovato-oblongis obtusis minutissime denticulatis 
membranaceis lete viridibus subtus pallidis sparse minute furfuraceis v. 
glaberrimis creberrime reticulatis, cymis pyramidatis terminalibus multifloris, 
floribus albis 3-poll. diametro, calycis tubo obconico, limbo brevi 5-dentato, 
dentibus latis brevibus, petalis obovato-spathulatis patenti-recurvis concavis, 
filamentis robustis petala subequantibus, stylo robusto, stigmate capitato. 
E. floribunda, Humb, Bonpl. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. Amer. vol. iii. p. 297; 
Kunth Synops. Plant. A2quinoct. vol. ii. p. 826; DC. Prod. vol. iv. p. 43, 
Lodd. Bot. Cab.t. 1772; Reichb. Ic. Bot. Haot. t. 202. 
E. montevidensis, DC. Prod. vol. iv. p. 4; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1467. 
E. floribunda, var. montevidensis, Cham. et Schlecht, in Linnea, vol. i. p. 543. 
E. bifida, Link et Otto, Ic. Pl. Hort. Berol. t. 23. 
An ornamental free-flowering shrub, remarkable for its 
very wide geographical range. It was discovered by Hum- 
boldt and Bonpland in the Andes of New Grenada, at an 
elevation of 8,400 feet, where it has since been collected by 
the late Dr. Jameson, Purdie, Triana, and others; to the 
northward it has been found in Venezuela, on the Silla of 
Caraccas, at 2,500 to 4,000 feet, with smaller flowers than the 
New Grenada form; and to the south in Peru, whence it 
extends across the continent to the Rio Grande do Sul province 
of Monte Video. The specimens from the latter country, 
though originally described as a variety of floribunda by 
Chamisso and Schlechtendal, were erected into a different 
species by De Candolle, who was followed in ‘this respect by 
Lindley. Of these authors De Candolle gives no distinctive 
characters, and Lindley, who gives an excellent figure of the 
JANUARY Ist, 1879. 
