Tas. 4962. 
ADHATODA cyponia@FoLia. 
Quince-leaved Adhatoda. 
Nat. Ord. AcantHace#.—D1anpRia Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx profunde 5-fidus, laciniis equalibus. Corolla ringens, tubo 
brevi aut mediocri, Jabio superiore concavo, inferiore trilobo. Stamina 2, tubo 
infra medium inserta. _Anthere biloculares, loculis in connectivo obliquis, altero 
altius inserto, inferiore calcarato. Stigma obtusum. Capsula depressa!, in medio 
tetrasperma. Semina vel lenticularia vel magis compressa.—Herbe vel frutices 
regionum temperatarum imprimis tamen calidarum totius orbis, floribus variis, foliis 
integerrimis. Vel spice axillares opposite, vel flores axillares, vel spica terminalis. 
Bractez et bracteole, he sepe grandiuscule, calyce longiores. Flores vel abortu 
secundi, vel oppositi. Nees. 
Apuatopa (§ Amblyanthus) eydoniafolia ; fruticosa, villosa, foliis ovalibus, pe- 
dunculis bifloris bracteis bracteolisque ovalibus calyce brevioribus eumdem 
zequantibus. Nees. 
Apuatopa cydoniefolia. Nees in Endl. et Mart. Fl. Bras. fasc. v. 7. p. 148. 
t. 25. Nees in De Cand. Prodr. v. 11. p. 389. 
Of ninety-eight species of Adhatoda, enumerated in De Can-— 
dolle’s ‘Prodromus,’ five only are natives of Brazil, from which 
country our present handsome species was received by Messrs. 
Veitch and Son, Exotic Nurseries, Exeter, and King’s Road, 
Chelsea. Of those five, I have hesitated whether to refer it to 
the 4. holosericea, Nees, or the A. cydoniefolia, Nees; but I am 
most inclined to refer it to the latter, though the description 
seems to allude to a more hairy plant, and having more elliptical 
leaves than our figure exhibits: the former is however probably 
a variable character in the species, and the fact of Nees noticing 
two states of foliage, “a, foliis obtusis,”’ and “8, foliis acutis,” 
would seem to indicate that the form of the leaves is liable to 
sport. We received flowering specimens in the autumn both of 
1855 and 1856. The flowers are large and showy, striking from 
the contrast of colour in the corolla. 
Descr. An erect or more or less ascending shrud, with very 
JANUARY Ist, 1857. 
