Tas. 4910. 
PENTAPTERYGIUM rFruavum. 
Yellow Pentapterygium. 
Nat. Ord. VaccInracEZ.—DEcANDRIA Monoecynia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus 5-alatus; limbus 5-partitus, lobis ovatis. Corolla 
tubulosa, pentagona, 5-loba; lobis brevibus recurvis. Stamina 10, distincta; 
anthere mutice y. dorso brevissime biaristate ; loculis in tubulos 2 coalitos apice 
liberos productis, ad apices antice dehiscentibus. Stigma truncatum. Bacca sub- 
globosa, coriaceo-carnosa, 5-alata, 5-locularis, limbo calycis coronata. Semina 
numerosissima, obovata.—Frutices Indici, sepissime epiphytici, glaberrimi v. glan- 
duloso-pilosi ; foliis coriaceis, ovatis, breve petiolatis, persistentibus ; floribus azil- 
laribus, solitariis racemosisve, plerumque speciosis—Pentapterygium, Klotzsch in 
Linnea, v, 24. p. 47. 
PENTAPTERYGIUM flavum ; ramis robustis foliisque glaberrimis, foliis coriaceis 
undique patentibus brevissime petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis sub- 
serratis superne rugoso-venosis subtus pallidioribus, floribus in racemos folio 
brevioribus aggregatis nutantibus, pedicellis calycibusque puberulis, calycis 
lobis triangulari-ovatis corolla flava subventricosa dimidio brevioribus. 
Turpaupta flava. Nuttall, MS. 
The beautiful plant here figured is a native of North-eastern 
India, in the Duphla hills, on trees, at an elevation of 4-5000 
feet above the sea-level, growing along with Rhododendron Nut- 
talliz, and was raised from seeds which Mr. Booth had collected 
by our valued friend and correspondent Mr. Nuttall, at his place 
of Nutgrove, Rainhill. Though not a showy, it is a remarkably 
elegant and ornamental plant, from the deep green glossiness of 
the wrinkled leaves and the nodding racemes of yellow flowers, 
whose pedicels are red; and the same colour runs down the 
wings of the calyx-tube and edges its lobes. The yellow colour 
is a very unusual one in the Order to which it belongs, the only 
hitherto described species of the genus, V. serpens (Wight, Ic. 
Plant. Ind. Or. iv. t. 1183, and Hook. fil. Ill. Him. PL. t. xv. B) 
having deep red corollas. The genus Pentapterygium is one of 
those into which the old Vaccinium has recently been broken by 
Klotzsch, and of the validity of all which genera we have many 
APRIL Ist, 1856. 
