Tas. 4922. 
CLAVIJA ornatTa. 
Elegant Claviya. 
Nat. Ord. Myrsinez.—PeEntTanpRIA Monoeynta. 
Gen. Char. Calyx profunde quinquefidus, Jaciniis imbricatis, obtusis. Corolla 
hypogyna, ¢uo brevi, fauce in appendices carnosas, cum Jimbi quinquelobi laci- 
niis obtusis, zestivatione imbricatis sub anthesi patentibus alternas tumente. Sta- 
mina 5, imo corolle tubo inserta, ejusque lobis opposita, faucem vix superantia ; 
Jilamenta in tubum connata ; anthere extrorse, biloculares, trigone, in capitulum 
decemradiatum conniventes, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium uniloculare, 
placenta basilari parva. Ovula pauca, adscendentim amphitropa. Stylus bre- 
vissimus ; stigma abbreviato-bilobum. Bacca globosa, unilocularis. Semina 
pauca, placentze basilari globosz liberee inserta, wmbilico prope basim ventrali, 
testa mucilaginosa. Kmbryo intra albumen corneum excentricus ; cotyledonibus 
ovatis, planis, radicula infera—Frutices Americe tropice ; caule simplici, apice 
Srondoso ; foliis alternis oblongis, coriaceis, integerrimis v. spinoso-dentatis ; racemis 
axillaribus, simplicissimis, strictis ; folio brevioribus, bracteis minutissimis; floribus 
nutantibus, abortu sepe unisexualibus, albis vel aurantiacis. Endl. 
Cuavisa ornata; foliis subverticillatis elongato-oblongis acutis basi longe an- 
gustatis coriaceis spinoso-dentatis, racemis folio triplo quadruplove brevi- 
oribus, bracteis subulatis pedicello triplo brevioribus. DC. 
Cxiavisa ornata. D. Don, Edinb. Phil. Journ. Jan. 1831. p. 236, et in Bot. 
Reg. t. 1764. De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 147. 
Turopnrasta longifolia. Jacg. Coll. v. 4. p. 136. Hort. Schoenbr. v. 1. t. 116. 
This is really a noble stove-plant, rising with a clear, tree-like 
stem to a height of ten or twelve feet, and bearing a crown of 
leaves at the extremity of very large size, together with racemes 
of bright orange-coloured flowers from the axils of the leaves 
and from the scars of the fallen leaves or the bare trunk: these 
racemes are spreading or drooping. The plant inhabits New 
Granada, and seeds were sent thence to our garden from that 
country by Mr. Purdie, which have now become fine plants. 
Descr. Stem erect, unbranched, or branched only at the top, 
tree-like, marked with the scars of the numerous fallen leaves, the 
foliage being confined to the summit of the stem, where the crown 
JUNE Ist, 1856. 
