Tas. 7462. 
INCARVILLEA Detavart. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. BrenontaceEa.—Tribe TECOMES. 
Genus Incarvitura, Juss. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1049.) 
IncanvittKa Delavayi ; glaberrima, caule brevi erecto robusto, foliis pedalibus 
lineari-oblongis pinnatis, rachi valida, foliolis suboppositis remote 8-10- 
jugis sessilibus lanceolatis obtusis crenato-lobulatis supremis confluenti- 
bus, nervis subtus validis, scapo elongato robusto nudo apicem versus 
plurifloro, bracteis setaceis, floribus magnis breviuscule pedicellatis, calycis 
tubulosi alte 5-costati puberuli dentibus acuminatis, corolle rosaess 
tubo 2-pollicari curvo, limbi 3-poll. diam. lobis rotundatis margine 
undulatis, antherarum loculis glabris. 
I. Delavayi, Bur. & Franch. in Morot Journ. Bot. (Paris), (1891), 39. Rev. 
Hortic. 1898, p. 544, fig. 173. Journ. Hortic. Ser. 3, vol. xxx. p. 449, f. 1. 
tg! i es vol. xliii. (1894), t. 1898. Baillon Histoire des Plantes, vol. x. 
p. 52. . 
This superb species of the central Asiatic genus 
Incarvillea was discovered by the Abbé Delavay in pastures 
of the lofty mountains of Yunnan in West China, at eleva- 
tions of 8000-11,500 ft. It was first published by the 
authors cited above in a paper on the plants of Tibet and 
China, chiefly collected by Prince Henri d’Orléans, during 
his and M. Bonvalet’s adventurous journey across Central 
Asia. In the same paper the authors give diagnoses of 
eight species from the same region, which, with those 
previously described, makes ten now known, whereas at 
the date of the publication of the Bignoniacee in the 
‘*Genera Plantarum” (1876), the genus consisted but of 
one. The only species previously figured in this work is 
I, Koopmanni, Lauche (Tab. 6593), a native of Turkestan ; 
as to which the late Dr. Regel informed me by letter that 
I was right in my supposition as to its being only a variety 
of I. Olgz, Reg. 
The plant of I. Delavayi from which the accompanying 
figure is made, was received from Mr. Max Leichtlin of 
Baden Baden, in 1894, and flowered in a cool greenhouse 
of the Royal Gardens in May, 1895. Handsome as it 
Maxcu Isr, 1896, 
