Tas. 4998. 
THUNBERGIA Harrisi. 
Lord Harris’s Thunbergia. 
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEEH.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4985.) 
Pa 
— 
Taunsercia Harrisii ; scandens glabra, foliis breviuscule petiolatis ovato-acu- 
minatis trinerviis integerrimis vel subsinuatis, petiolis marginatis basi 
apiceque vix incrassatis, racemis terminalibus compositis amplis, pedicellis 
verticillatis, verticillis plurifloris nunc remotis, bracteis amplis spathzefor- 
mibus marginibus superioribus coherentibus, corolla ampla, limbi lobis ro- 
tundatis integris. ; 
We intimated, under our description of Zhunbergia laurifoha, 
Lindl. (Tab. Nostr. 4985), that it was our intention shortly to 
figure another Zhunbergia, more beautiful than that, but belong- 
ing to the same section or group as that, ‘“‘calycis limbo truncato,”” 
and we now redeem that pledge. About the same time with the 
introduction of Zh. /aurifolia, direct from the Malayan Peninsula, 
we received seeds from his Excellency the Right Hon. Lord 
Harris, Governor of Madras, marked as a “new and very beau- 
tiful Zhunbergia.” From these seeds have been raised the plant 
here figured, which has flowered copiously with Messrs. Veitch, 
of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, to whom we had given 
plants during the winter and spring months of 1557. On wri- 
ting to our noble friend for some further information, he informs 
us it is considered at Madras to be the Hewacentris acuminata 
of Nees, in De Cand. Prodr. vol. xi. p. 61. If this were reall 
so, that name should undoubtedly be adopted; but I thin 
it will appear that the name is totally unworthy of adoption, 
when I state that that supposed species is made up from two- 
plants, both miserable specimens without flowers, one from Sylhet, — 
in the Wallichian Herbarium, the other from Mergui (Griffith), 
AuGusT lst, 1857. 
