Tab. 5829. 

 clavija macrophylla. 



Large-leaved Clavija. 



Nat. Ord. MybsinejE. Pentandeia Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5626.) 



Clavija macrophylla ; foliis per intervalla confertis breviter petiolatis 

 coriaceo-membranaceis majoribus et minoribus permixtis, illis obovato- 

 oblongis breviter acuminatis obtusis vel emarginatis basi cuneatis 

 marginibus haud incrassatis acute sinuato-dentatis, dentibus vix pun- 

 gentibus, foliis minoribus magis lanceolatis, nervis patentibus sub- 

 parallelis prsesertim subtus tenere reticulars, racemis flaccidis laxifloris 

 tenuibus, bracteis ad pedicelli basin vel in medio insertis, floribus 

 pedicellatis fere omnibus tetrameris, drupis siccis globosis brevi- 

 rostellatis. — Miq. 



Clavija macrophylla, Miquel in Mart. Fl. Brazil, fasc. xvi. p. 275, t. 24. 



Theopheasta macrophylla, Link. Herb. T. serrata, Hoffinansegg, Verzeichn. 

 2 ann. 1826, p. 18 ? 



The subject of the present plate, a native of Brazil, was 

 flowered by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.E.S., of Eeigate, 

 in July last, and has been referred, though with some doubt, 

 to Clavija macrophylla of Miquel. It agrees entirely with 

 that plant in habit and foliage (which forms a magnificent 

 crown of eighteen to twenty leaves in the specimen figured) 

 in the copious racemes (of which there were twenty-six in 

 this specimen), and in the tetramerous flowers with very small 

 calyx and minute subulate bracts half-way up the pedice] ; 

 but it differs from Miquel's description in the corolla 

 being orange-yellow, instead of white with a scarlet median 

 nerve. I cannot help suspecting, however, that the latter 

 character, apparently taken from notes attached to dried 

 specimens, has originated in a mistake ; the flowers being 

 yellow or orange in the closely allied C. ornate^ and in all 



apbil 1st, 1870. 



