Tas. 6412. 
CUPHEA LANCEOLATA. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. Lyrurartrx.—Tribe Lyrurez. 
Genus Curnea, P. Br. ; (Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 778). 
Cupnea lanceolata; glanduloso-pubescens et viscosa, caule erecto stricto, foliis 
oppositis et alternis petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis obtusiusculis, 
floribus axillaribus solitariis pedicellatis deflexis, pedicellis 2-bracteolatis, 
bracteolis parvis, calycis tubo elongato imo basi gibbo infra orem antice 
inflato lobo dorsali triangulari ovato erecto, ceteris brevissimus acutis sinubus 
penicillis villorum auctis, filamentis brevibus longe lanatis, antheris oblongis, 
ovario lanceolato glabro disci processu lingueformi basi stipato. 
C. lanceolata, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 150; Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. 
vi. p. 605 ; DC. Prod. vol. iii. p. 85; Don in Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. vol. vii. t. 
402; Regel, Gartenfl. 1864, p. 3%, t. 424. 
C. Zimpani, Roezl, MS. 
This belongs to the same section of the large genus 
Cuphea as the old C. silenoides, Nees (Tab. nost. 4362), but 
is a taller-growing, more erect, and much handsomer plant, 
with strict (not flexuous) branches, longer calyx-tubes, and 
much larger flowers. Regel, indeed, in the ‘Gartenflora,’ 
reduces C, silenoides to a variety of this, but the habit and 
other characters of the two are so different that I do not feel 
justified in adopting this conclusion, especially after observing 
them growing side by side. : ae 
Cuphea lanceolata was introduced into English cultivation 
as long ago as 1796, by Mr. Anderson, then curator of the 
famous Apothecaries’ garden at Chelsea, but was soon lost, 
no doubt from its having been treated as a stove plant, as 
directed in the ‘Hortus Kewensis.’ It was reintroduced at 
Hamburgh in about 1835, by Messrs. Booth, and was flowered 
FERRUARY Ist, 1879. 
