Tas. 5575. 
THIBAUDIA CORONARIA. 
Small-leaved Thibaudia. 
Nat. Ord. Vacctnrace®.—Decanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4303.) 
THIBAUDIA coronaria ; pubescenti-pilosa, foliis parvis breviter petiolatis 
ovatis obtusis integerrimis crasse coriaceis enerviis utrinque sparse 
pilosis, floribus axillaribus solitariis v. binis, pedicellis gracilibus foliis 
equilongis, calycis laxe lanuginosi tubo brevi acute 5-gono basi di- 
latato 5-lobo, lobis 5 triangulari-ovatis acutis, coroila urceolata ob- 
tusa 5-gona, lobis brevibus patenti-recurvis late triangularibus, fila- 
mentis brevibus dilatatis ciliatis equilongis, antheris zquilongis lo- 
culis brevibus oblongis in tubum duplicem angustum erectum apice 
2-porosum attenuatis ecalcaratis. 
CrRaTOsTEMMA coronaria. Hort. Lind. 
This is another importation of my friend Mr. J. Bateman, 
whose energy in introducing this beautiful class of plants 
into Britain has been rewarded by signal success in rearing 
and flowering them. Fora warm greenhouse no plants can 
be more desirable, the bright green leaves—rarely, if ever, 
infested by insects—are always beautiful, and the flowers, 
which are produced in profusion, remain in beauty longer 
than those of any other ornamental plants of the same na- 
ture. How little known these Andean Vacciniaceous plants 
are may be gathered from the fact that this is the third 
figured in this magazine within five months, all new to culti- 
vation and two likewise to science. 
T. coronaria has been cultivated by Mr. Bateman under the 
name of Ceratostemma, by which it was sold by M. Linden, of 
Brussels, but I have no other information regarding it beyond 
that it flowered with Mr. Bateman in January of the present 
year. It is probably a native of New Granada or Venezuela. 
It differs generically from Ceratostemma in the filaments not 
being connate into a tube, and is perhaps referable to 
MAY Ist, 1866. 
