Tas. 7047. 
CHIRONIA pepuncunaris. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Gent1anea.—Tribe CurRonieZ. 
Genus Cytron, Linn.; (Benth et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 805.) 
Curroyia peduncularis ; perennis, suffruticosa, decumbens, ramis teretibus, 
foliis sessilibus e basi cordata v. rotundata ovato-lanceolatis acutis v. 
acuminatis trinerviis, floribus longe pedicellatis amplis, calycis lobis 
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, corolle tubo terete, limbi rubro-purpurei 
lobis ovatis acuminatis tubum eequantibus, antheris linearibus erectis 
filamento longioribus, capsula oblongo-lanceolata exsucca. ; 
C. peduncularis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1803; Griseb. in DC. Prodr. vol. ix. 
p. 39. 
C. latifolia, E. Meyer Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. fase. ii. p. 178. 
C. trinervia, Aan. de Flore de Pomone, t. 158. 
C. trinervis, Part. Mag. vol. iii. t. 149. 
C. Barclayana, Hort. 
A native of South Africa, where it has a very wide 
range indeed on the eastern side of the continent, from 
Algoa Bay in 34° §., north-eastward to Zululand in 
Lat. 28° 8., inhabiting moist ground, where it forms a 
weak trailing or spreading bush. Of its original intro- 
duction into this country, nothing is known. Lindley, who 
first described it in 1835, speaks of it as a plant cultivated 
in gardens under the name of C. trinervis (not of Linneus), 
and of which the native country was unknown. From 
that time it seems to have gone out of cultivation, which is 
the more remarkable, for Lindley states that “ nothing can 
be easier than its management, as it grows in any kind of 
soil, will thrive out of doors in summer, and will survive 
the winter without injury in a very indifferent greenhouse ; 
further, that it is propagated easily by cuttings, and is covered 
with a succession of purple flowers from July to October.” 
No doubt its straggling habit is not in its favour; but 
this would yield to skilful treatment. 
Like so many of the species of the Gentianee, and all 
the Chironias, C. peduncularis contains a very strong 
Marcu 1st, 1889. : 
