= ta ® 
Tan. 5280. 
PECGINGLA | upcusas. 
Royal Higginsia. 
Nat. Ord. Rustacem (HEepDyoT1pEx),.—TeETRANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus brevis, obovatus ; limbus ad basin 4-dentatus, persis- 
tens. Corolla infundibuliformis, subcampanulata, tubo brevi, limbo 4-partito 
patente, fauce nuda. Stamina medio tubo inserta, filamentis brevibus, antheris 
ovatis inclusis. Stigmata 2, exserta. Bacca oblonga, subtetragona, bisulca, bilo- 
cularis, calyce coronata. Placenta septo adnate. Semina in loculo quoque plu- 
rima, parva, aptera.—Suffrutices 3-4-pedales, ramis obtuse tetragonis. Folia 
opposita aut verticillata, obovata aut oblonga, acuta. Stipule utringue solitaria, 
parce, acute, decidue. Pedunculi avxillares, racemosi, pedicellis brevibus, unila- 
teralibus. Corolle rudbentes. De Cand. : 
Hiee@insta regalis ; fruticosa robusta, ramis subsucculentis obtuse tetragonis, 
foliis rotundato-ovatis subcoriaceis acuminatis integerrimis subarcte plicato- 
penninerviis glabris nitidis atro-viridibus subtus purpureo-rubris, stipulis 
triangularibus deciduis, floribus aggregatis subsessilibus. 
CampyLozorrys regalis. Hort. Belg. 
In 1850 we received from Paris, and published at Tab. 4530 
of this work, a South American plant under the name of Cam- 
pylobotrys discolor, and not being able then to refer it with cer- 
tainty to any known Rubiaceous genus, we retained the name 
as we received it, and drew up a character as well as our ma- 
terials would permit. Since that has appeared, our friend Mr. 
Planchon has referred the Campylobotrys discolor to Higginsia 
(see Walpers’s Annales Bot. Syst. v. 2. p. 792), and probably cor- 
rectly so. We have now, from Mr. Linden, of the Belgian Gar- 
dens, received the beautiful plant here figured, with the name of 
“ Campylobotrys regalis,’ but unfortunately with no mention of its 
native country nor indication of its being anywhere described or 
published. No plant better deserves to be known or is better 
worthy of cultivation in the stove. As it is evidently of the 
same genus as the Higginsia discolor of Planchon, we transfer it 
thither, only lamenting we have so little of its history to give. 
NOVEMBER lst, 1861. 
