Tas. 5232, 
CUPHEA JorvuLuENsis. 
Jorulla Cuphea. 
Nat. Ord. LytHrRarIE®Z.—DopEcANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, basi superiore gibbus, Jiméo ampliatus, dentibus 
6 erectis, sinubus 6 nunc productis parvis, nune obsoletis. Petala 6-7, ineequalia. 
Stamina 11-14, rarius 6-7, fauci calycis inserta, inequalia. Glandula crassa sub 
ovario. Stylus filiformis. Stigma simplex aut subbifidum. Capsula membra- 
nacea, calyce obtecta, 1—-2-locularis, demum bifidum, per placentam deflexam simul 
cum calyce fissa. Semina suborbiculata, compressa, aptera.—Herbe aut suffru- 
tices. Folia opposita, rarius verticillata, integerrima. Pedunculi interpetiolares, 
unt- aut rarius multiflori. Flores sepius cernui. Calyces colorati. Petala vio- 
lacea aut alba. 
CupHea (§ Longiflore) Jorullensis ; suffruticosa, foliis lanceolatis scabris in peti- 
olum breviusculum attenuatis, racemis foliosis in apice ramorum vel ramu- 
lorum, floribus subsecundis cernuis apetalis, calycibus magnis tubuloso- 
ventricosis striatis glanduloso-pilosis basi superne gibboso-calcarata, ore 
paululum dilatato 5-dentato longe piloso-glanduloso, dentium sinubus glan- 
dula viridi, filamentis valde inzequalibus styloque longe exsertis. 
Cupuea Jorullensis. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 6. p. 164. De Cand. Prodr. 
p. 84. 
Cupnea eminens. Planch. et Lind. Fl. des Serres. Revue Hortic. 1857, p. 151 
(reduced woodcut figure). 
Certainly the finest of all the known species of the numerous 
genus of Cuphea, with singularly large coloured calyces, for there 
are no petals; now well known in our gardens as a hardy green- 
house plant, and thriving in the summer in the open border, 
under the name of C. eminens, by which appellation it was sent 
from the extensive horticultural establishment of Mr. Linden ; 
but it is assuredly the C. Jorudlensis—a much older name—of 
Humboldt, native of Mexico (first detected, as its name implies, 
on the volcanic mountain of Jorullo). We have fine specimens 
in our herbarium from Mr. Bates, and Mr. Linden received it 
from M. Ghiesbrecht. It is nearly allied to the Cuphea Melvilla 
of Dr. Lindley in Bot. Reg. t. 852, of which I have copious native 
’ specimens from Brazil and British Guiana; but that has much 
broader leaves, flowers in leafless racemes, a calyx destitute of 
glands, and where the calyx in our plant is yellow that is green. 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1861. 
