eo 
Tas. 7405. 
WE LDENIA CANDIDA. 
Native of Mexico and Guatemala. 
Nat. Ord. ComMELINacE#.—Tribe TRADESCANTIER. 
Genus Wetpenta, Schult. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 855.) 
We.penta candida; herba erecta, puberula, tuberosa, caule simplici folioso, 
foliis linearibus oblongisve acutis subsessilibus basi angustatis subtus 
alte 5-0-costatis, costis puberulis pallide viridibus supra concavis 
fasciculis pilorum raris albis conspersis, vagina laxa cylindracea mem- 
branacea, floribus terminalibus fasciculatis sessilibus albis, calycis tubo 
superne fisso, limbo 5-fido puberulo, corolle tubo elongato gracili calyce 
duplo longiore, limbi ampli segmentis 3 orbicularibus patentibus, 
staminibus 6 filamentis gracilibus exsertis, antheris oblongis, ovario 
lineari-oblongo 3-loculari, stylo filiformi, stigmate 3-lobo, ovulis in 
loculis paucis subbiseriatim superpositis. 
. candida, Schult f.in Flora, vol. xii. (1829), p. 3, t.i. A. Roem. & Sch. 
Syst. vol. vii. p. 1186. Hassk. Commel. Ind. p. 3. Baker in Journ. 
z Linn. Soe. vol. xvii. p. 454. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. iii. 
p. 319. Kew Bulletin (1894), p. 135. 
W. Schaultesii, Schlecht. Hort. Halens. p. 14. 
Lampra volcanica, Benth. Pl. Hartweg, p. 95; & in Hook. Ic. Plant. vol. xiii. 
p- 28, t. 1236. 
Rugendasia majalis, Hhrend. mss. 
The remarkable plant here figured, which is monotypic, 
was discovered by Ehrenberg, between Chico and Real 
del Monte in Mexico; Karwinsky subsequently found it 
‘in the Nevado de Tolucca, and Schiede on the Cuesta de 
Catingoa. Hartweg, in 1840, collected it in the crater of 
the Volean de Agua in Guatemala, and specimens from 
the same locality have lately been received at Kew from 
J. Donnell Smith, Esq., an excellent botanist.: The fol- 
lowing account is given in the Kew Bulletin cited above. 
“ Last year Mr. Audley C. Gosling, Her Majesty’s Minister 
_ to Central America, informed us that his sons had “ made 
the ascent of the Volcan de Agua, and at the bottom of 
the crater had found bulbs of the plant which Mr. Donnell 
Smith informs me is Weldenia candida.... I have 
planted these bulbs here, and they flower to perfection at 
9000 ft. lower altitude than where found. The daily 
Maxcu Isr, 1895. 
