Tab. 6393. 



EURYGANIA ovata. 



Native of Peru. 



Nat. Ord. EricejE.— Tribe Thibatjdieje. 

 Genus Eurygania, Klotzxch; {Baith. et Hooh.f. Gen. PI., vol. iL p. Wi). 



EtJBTGAWiA ovata : frutex glaberrimus, ramis elongates cyhndraceis crassmsculis 

 subscandentibus, apicibus pendulis, foliis sparsis breviter petiolatis ovatis v. 

 ovato-cordatis acuminatis obscure serratis crasse coriaceis supra saturate 

 subtus pallide viridibus, petiolo rubro, floribus longe pedioellatis m peduncu- 

 lum brevem pilosulum axillarem subcorymbosis, bracteis ciko latis nwmfas, 

 pedunculis iloribusque rubra, calycis tubo campanulato, lobis .late ^angular*. 

 ovatis obtusis. corolla urceolata l»vi fauce constncto palhdo lobis in iiiutis 

 recurvis, staminibus corolla multo brevioribus, iilameutis m tubum brevem 

 connatis, antberis linearibus dorso muticis, loculis apice liberis rums elongates 

 debiscentibus basi barbellatis. 



A very beautiful plant, belonging to a genus now for the 

 first time figured from cultivated specimens; nearly allied to 

 Thibaudia, under which it would have ranked before that 

 unwieldy genus was revised and broken up by Klotzscn 

 As now constituted, Eurygania comprises those Thbaudimoi 

 the older authors, in which the stamens are much shorter than 

 the corolla, with the filaments coherent into a tube, and tne 

 anther-cells, which are not spurred at the back, opening by 

 long slits towards the tip. Hitherto about twelve species ol 

 the genus have been described or seen in Herbaria, with none 

 of which have I been able to identify the plant here figured. 

 It was discovered by Mr. W. Lobb in the Andes of Peru, 

 when collecting for Messrs. Veitch, who sent flowering 

 specimens for figuring in July of the present year It tonus 

 a rambling shrub, with sarmentose branches ten to twelve teet 

 long, and leaves and branches of a brilliant glossy green, re- 

 lieved by the red petioles. , , 



Descr. An evergreen shrub, with stout stem and long 

 rather stout rambling branches, which are cylmdric. green 

 and pendulous at the end. Leaves scattered one and a nan 

 to two inches long, recurved on the pendulous Ranches 

 ovate or ovate-cordate, acuminate, obscurely serrate, deep 



NOVKMRKU 1ST. 18?8. 



