Tas. 6604. 
CAMBESSEDESIA PARAGUAYENSIS. 
Native of Paraguay. 
Nat. Ord. Me.astomace®.—Tribe Micronicies. 
Genus Campessepgsia, DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 737.) 
CAMBESSEDESIA paraguayensis ; herba humilis, erecta, hirtella v. glabra, caule 
ramisque 4-gonis angulis anguste alatis, foliis sessilibus ovatis acutis 3-nerviis 
ciliatis, floribus subcorymboso-paniculatis, calycis glanduloso-pilosi tubo 
oblongo-campanulato lobis subulato-lanceolatis breviore, petalis late ovatis 
acutis ciliolatis roseis, antheris subsequalibus longioribus basi antice 2-lobis 
dorso tumidis, brevoribus basi antice tumidis, ovario glaberrimo, capsula 
- globoso-ovoidea calycis tubo inclusa 3-valvi, seminibus minimis levibus. 
The genus Cambessedesia consists of nine known species 
of South Brazilian plants, with woody rootstocks on stems, 
and erect usually simple four-angled herbaceous branches, 
growing in grassy plains and rocky exposed places. 
All, judging from herbarium specimens, are handsome 
plants, and the present species is the first ever introduced 
into European gardens. Though hitherto undescribed, I 
find specimens exactly corresponding to it in the Kew 
Herbarium, collected at Villa Rica in Paraguay by B, 
Balansa, during his journeys of 1874—1877 in that hittle- 
known country, 
The specimen here figured was communicated by Messrs. 
K. G. Henderson and Son, of Pine Apple Nursery, Maida 
Vale, with whom it flowered in July last. 
Drscr. Rootstock short, woody. Stems numerous, ten 
to eighteen inches high, annual, herbaceous, leafy, sub- 
corymbosely branched above, more or less minutely hispid 
or glabrate, four-angled, the angles narrowly winged. 
Leaves uniform, three-fourths to nearly one inch long, 
sessile, broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute, three-nerved, 
pale green, margins quite entire, ciliate. Flowers in 
terminal corymbose glandular-hairy panicles, with stiff 
JANUARY lst, 1882. 
