Tas. 6627. 
APHELANDRA CHAMISSONIANA, 
Native of South Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. AcanTHACEH.—Tribe JusTICcIER. 
Genus Apmetanpra, Br. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 1102.) 
APHELANDRA Chamissoniana; fruticosa, ramulis puberulis exceptis glaberrima, 
ramis teretibus, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis longe acuminatis apicibus obtusius- 
culis membranaceis in petiolum longe angustatis supra saturate viridibus 
secus costam nervosque albidis subtus pallidis, spica sessili late oblonge, 
bracteis dense imbricatis late ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis recurvis flavis 
spinoso-dentatis, corolla glabra flava, tubo bracteis longiore «quali limbo 
subsequaliter 5-fido quadruplo longiore. 
A. Chamissoniana, Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. fase.7, p. 90, et in DC. Prodr. 
vol. xi. p. 299. 
A. punctata, Hort. Bull. (Catal. No. 184, 1882, p. 25). 
Though I have seen no authentically named specimen of 
Aphelandra Chamissoniana, and thouch the latter is described 
by Nees as having a scarlet corolla, I can hardly doubt the 
plant here figured being referable’ to that species. The 
native country of Nees’ A. Chamissoniana is St. Catharina 
in South Brazil, from whence there is an unnamed Aphe- 
landra in the Kew Herbarium, communicated by F. Mueller, 
agreeing with Nees’ description and with Mr. Bull’s plant 
in every particular, except possibly the colour of flower, 
which cannot be ascertained from the dried specimen. In 
Mueller’s specimen it has the same brown hue that both 
yellow- and scarlet-flowered species assume in that state. 
Nees indeed had seen but one specimen, and that a Herba- 
rium one collected by Chamisso early in the century, and 
probably guessed at the colour. It is hardly conceivable 
that there should be at St. Catharina two species with such 
remarkable bracts agreeing in every particular but the 
colour of the corolla. 
This beautiful plant was raised from seed imported-by 
JUNE Ist, 1882, 
