with more or less erect spreading or recurved lanceolate _ 
acutely serrate bracts that do not arch over the racemes, — 
and those figured herewith. And between these a — 
graduated series of intermediates may be traced. A very 
distinct species, first described and figured in this work, — 
A. calycina (Tab. 6915) has been confounded with A. 
punicea, and published as A. punicea (calycina) in the — 
Illustrt. Gartenzeit., 1890, p. 68, fig. 9; and as A. punicea in 
Gartenflora, vol. xxxv. (1886) p. 336, fig. 85, in neither of — 
which works is the figure in the Botanical Magazine alluded — 
to. Lastly, there is an A. pwnicea, figured by Séghers, in 
L? Hortic. Belge, vol. xx. (1894) which, if a correct repre- 
sentation, must be a very different species from either 
erecta or calycina, having opposite quite entire leaves, large _ 
lanceolate bracts, the lower opposite, a wholly scarlet 
calyx, and solitary axillary flowers with a small pure white — 
corolla. L 
The specimen of Amasonia erecta, var. latebracteata, here 
figured was communicated by Messrs. Sander & Co. of | 
St. Alban’s, who had previously presented living plants of — 
it to Kew, and which latter flowered in a stove in the Royal — 
Gardens at the same time, namely, July, 1895. e 
Descr.—A small, slender, sparingly branched shrub a — 
few feet high; branchlets red-brown. Leaves alternate — 
and subverticillate, four to six inches long, obovate-oblong — 
or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, crenate-serrate, — 
base narrowed into a petiole two to three inches long, dark — 
green above, pale beneath. Inflorescence a racemiform — 
elongate terminal panicle, with the flowers collected in @ — 
series of small subsecund drooping few-fid. racemules, — 
each arising from the axil of and nearly hidden under a 
broad leafy bract, beyond which the corollas are exserted ; — 
peduncle and pedicels very slender, bright red ; bracts aD — 
inch long, very shortly petioled, elliptic or suborbicular, — 
apiculate, remotely denticulate, puberulous, lowest in the — 
panicle foliaceous green and longer petioled, the remainder — 
bright scarlet, passing at the base into golden yellow. — 
Flowers drooping, one inch long. Calya-tube short, hemi- — 
spheric, pubescent; lobes ovate, acuminate, erect, bases 
contiguous. Corolla-tube three times as long as the calyX, 
shightly dilated upwards, covered with spreading hairs, 
pale dull yellowish; lobes not half as long as the tube, _ 
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