Tas. 5888. 
BELOPERONE ciara; 
Native of Peru and New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEH.—Tribe APHELANDREZ. 
Genus Be.oprrone, Nees; (DC. Prod., vol. xi. p. 413). 
BeELoperone ciliata ; herbacea, annua, caule obscure 4-gono puberulo, nodis 
tumidis, foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acutis glabris raphidibus 
farctis, floribus, in fasciculos axillares et terminales sessiles v. breviter 
pedunculatos aggregatis violaceis, bracteis aciculari-subulatis ciliatis 
calycem superantibus, calycis 5-partiti segmentis lanceolato-subulatis 
ciliatis corolle tubo cylindrico ? poll. longo dimidio brevioribus, 
corolle labio superiore parvo breviter oblongo recurvo 2-lobo, inferiore 
dilatato late 3-lobo, lobis ovato-rotundatis obtusis, palate albo, anthere 
loculis breviter linearibus ecalcaratis basi divergentibus, connectivo 
latiusculo, stigmate minute 2-lobo. 
JACOBINIA ciliata; Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, p. 178; Masters in Gard. 
Chron., 1870, p. 1567 ; and Nees in DC. Prod., vol. xi, p. 331? 
A very pretty winter-flowering stove-plant, the nomencla- 
ture of which is involved in doubt. It was examined by Dr. 
Martius in November last, and proved identical with a plant in 
the Hookerian Herbarium, collected by Dr. Seemann in Panama, 
and referred by him to Jacobinia ciliata, Nees, and was hence 
published under that name in the Gardener's Chronicle. I am 
unfortunately unable to ascertain whether Seemann’s Panama 
plant is really Nees’ /. ciliata, which comes from a widely 
different country, St. Jago de Chili; the original specimen 
of Tweedie, upon which Nees founded the species, having 
been misluid since the comparison of the specimens in 
November. All I can say is, that this, which certainly is 
identical with the Panama plant, differs altogether both from 
Nees’ generic character of /Jucobinia and from his specific 
one of J. ciliata; and it is further to be observed, that when 
MARCH Ist, 1871. 
