Tas. 4583. 
FRANCISCEA caLycina. 
Large-calyxed Franeiscea. 
Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
. Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4189.) 
FRanciscEa calycina ; foliis oboyato-oblongis ellipticisve vix acuminatis sub- 
coriaceis cauleque glaberrimis vel in nervo medio subtus hirtellis, cymis 
2—4-floris, calyece amplo tubuloso inflato glabro, corolle tubo calycem bre- 
viter superante. 
BRuNSFELSIA calycina. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v.10. p. 199. 
Brsterra inodora. Vellozi, Fl. Flum. 6. t. 81. 
Franctscea confertiflora. Moore, Gard. Mag. of Bot. v.3. p. 73: 
We continue the genus Franciscea, as sanctioned by Mr. 
Miers, in the fifth volume, new series, of ‘Annals of Natural 
History,’ for the blue-flowered species of Brunsfelsia, though we 
fear Mr. Bentham’s views of the unsoundness of the generic 
distinction are too true. We find the present plant figured 
and described by Mr.Henfrey in the ‘Magazine of Botany,’ under 
the name of F. confertiflora, and the only synonym given is the 
Brunsfelsia confertifiora of Mr. Bentham, a species with which 
we are familiar, and of which there exists a splendid figure in 
Pohl’s ‘Plantarum Brasiliarum Icones:’ but the figure and 
description are totally at variance with our plant. It is unques- 
tionably the F. (Brunsfelsia) calycina of Bentham, figured, 
characteristically enough, in the ‘Flora Fluminensis, and well 
distinguished by the large inflated calyx and other characters. 
As we are indebted for our plant to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, 
and Co., Exeter Nursery, who received it from Belgium, we 
presume that the Belgian horticulturists are answerable for any- 
thing wrong in the name, though that is not implied in the 
JUNE Ist, 1851. 
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