Tas. 6410. 
LOASA VULCANICA, — 
Native of Equador. 
Nat. Ord. Loasex. 
Genus Loasa, Juss; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i., p. 804). 
Loasa vulcanica ; annua, setosa, erecta, foliis tripartitis, segmentis petiolulatis 
elliptico-ovatis obovatisve acuminatis grosse inequaliter lobulatis et 
serratis, petiolulis lateralibus spe basi pinnulis 2-3 alternis auctis, racemis 
foliosis, foliis floralibus subsessilibus inferioribus tripartitis supremis integris 
omnibus inciso-serratis, floribus nutantibus, calycis lobis late ovatis acutis, 
petalis albis auguste cymbiformibus, squamis conicis aureis rubro trans- 
versim vittatis, ovario clavato. 
L. vuleanica, Fd, André, Il. Hortie. vol. xxv. p. 11, t. 302. 
L. Wallisii, Hort. 
M. André, who introduced this pretty plant into cultiva- 
tion during his expedition to the Andes of New Grenada and 
Equador, states in the ‘ Revue Horticole’ that he found it in 
June, 1876, forming a common branched bush on the banks 
of the river Pitaton, also occurring at the foot of the 
voleano of Corazon, on the western slope of the Andes, at an 
elevation of 9000 to 10,500 ft. above the sea. There are 
Specimens in the Kew Herbarium gathered by Seemann in 
August, 1847, at the village of Gonzanama, also in Equador. 
Like the other members of its family it is covered with 
stinging bristles, as to which M. André remarks that the 
obtaining its seeds cost him ‘‘les mains bullées en mille 
endroits.”’ 
Loasa vulcanica grows as an erect bush to an height of two 
or three feet, forming a very attractive plant from the number 
of pearly blossoms, each with a golden eye banded with red ; 
it is quite hardy, having flowered without protection in the 
herbaceous ground at Kew in September, last year. The 
artist of our plate, Mrs. Barnard, observed that the filaments 
of each bundle of stamens after having sprung towards the 
FERRUARY Ist, 1879, 
