Tas. 6633. 
COLUMNEA KCALBREYERI. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. GESNERACEH.—Tribe CyrTANDRER®. 
Genus Cotumnea, Leénn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. ii. p. 1009.) 
Cotumnea (Collandra) Kalbreyeri; fere glaberrima, caule robusto tereti, foliis 
sessilibus valde disparibus subtus sanguineis majoribus elongato-oblongis 
acuminatis recurvis inezquilateris integerrimis y. serratis, minoribus parvis 
ovatis acuminatis, floribus magnis aureis in cymas v. fasciculos pancifloros 
axillares foliaceo-bracteatos dispositis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis longe-acuminatis 
integerrimis v. serratis, corollz tubuloso-infundibulari piloso tubo lato basi 
sub-geniculato lobis brevibus rotundatis. 
C. Kalbreyeri, Hook. f.; Masters in Gard. Chron., 1882, pp. 44, 217. 
This superb plant belongs to the same division of the 
genus Colwmnea as C. aureo-nitens, Hook., figured at 
Plate 4294 of this work, and to which the generic name of 
Collandra was given by Lemaire, in the Flora des Serres 
(1847, under t. 223), but which is rightly referred to a 
section of the old genus by Bentham in the Genera Plan- 
tarum. ‘There is a closely allied species still to be intro- 
duced from the base of Chimborazo, which has green leaves 
with blood-red tips, and there are, no doubt, others in that 
rich region of vegetation equally worthy of introduction 
into our stoves. 
Columnea Kalbreyeri was discovered by the collector 
whose name it bears, when travelling for Messrs. Veitch, 
in the forests of Cifiegetas, province of Antioquia, where it 
grows on trees. Its discoverer says of the leaves, that 
they are seen from a far distance, the upper ‘‘ surface being 
spotted and marked, the marks shining as if illuminated.” 
The contrast between the brilliant hues of the upper surface, 
consisting of a bright pale green suffused with yellow in 
patches, and the opaque glowing blood-red of the under 
surface, forms one of the most striking of the many com- 
JULY Ist, 1882, 
